By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Ruth Buzzi, who was so hilarious as the lonely spinster Gladys Ormphby, the lady who swung her handbag as a lethal weapon, on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, has died.

Ruth Buzzi, a comedic actress with a high-beam smile who often played sidekicks both wisecracking and wise, and who scowled her way to pop-culture fame on the comedy-variety show “Rowan & Martin ...

LOS ANGELES — Ruth Buzzi, who rose to fame as the frumpy and bitter Gladys Ormphby on the groundbreaking sketch comedy series “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and made over 200 television ...

Buzzi died Thursday. She was 88. Before “Saturday Night Live,” there was “Laugh-In.” No, the show wasn’t live, and it aired on Mondays, not Saturdays. But it had a talented and zany ...

Buzzi died Thursday at her home in Texas, says her agent Mike Eisenstadt. She had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and was in hospice care. Shortly before her death, her husband, Kent Perkins ...