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Ruth Buzzi was born July 24, 1936 in Westerly, Rhode Island to Rena and Angelo Buzzi. Her father was a nationally recognized stone sculptor. Raised in Wequetequock, Connecticut, she attended Stonington High School. She gained experience as a cheerleader, performing before crowds at athletic events.

At 17, she enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse for the Performing Arts. Her classmates included Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman. She graduated with honors. Buzzi went on to Act in a wide variety of revues throughout New England, and worked alongside other young and talented performers who were just beginning their careers at the time, including Barbra Streisand, Joan Rivers, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters and Carol Burnett.

She came to national recognition when she teamed up with Dom DeLuise in an act in which he played an incompetent magician and she was his sidekick, "Shakuntala", who never spoke but sported a wide grin. Audiences demanded more and they eventually played several major nighttime television variety shows including The Garry Moore Show (1958) "The Entertainers" with Carol Burnett, and Your Show of Shows (1950) with Imogene Coca.

She was hired by Bob Fosse to perform in his wife (Gwen Verdon)'s hit Broadway musical "Sweet Charity". During that time she auditioned for and received a permanent place in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967), playing everything from deadpan housewives to hard-bitten drunks to Southern belles to hookers. Memorable characters include Busy-Buzzi, a Hollywood gossip columnist; dipsomaniac Doris Swizzler, who frequently got wasted with her husband Leonard (played by Dick Martin); and as one of the Burbank Airlines Stewardesses, who were infamous for their rude behavior.

Clinton Howard Swindle was born on November 20, 1945, in Houston, Texas. He lived with his mother and father until he was 13, when he and his mother left his father. His mother later remarried.

Howard attended the University of North Texas (then North Texas State University), in Denton, Texas, and earned his degree in Journalism. He then went to work at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal until, instead of being drafted, decided to enlist in the US Navy, where he served three years during Vietnam. After his service, he returned to the paper, and after a short stint in Chicago, continued working at the Journal.

In 1976, Swindle began working for The Dallas Times Herald, and was quite the reporter there until a dispute over a story caused him to quit in 1979, when the Dallas Morning News signed him up, starting a 25 year career. He ranged in jobs from Metro Editor to Special projects editor, but he was best known as an Investigative Reporter, where he cracked stories like racial discrimination in public housing, the savings and loan scandal, and the impulsive brutality of rogue law enforcement officers.

Known as a meticulous journalist, he never took a day off work to write any of his books (6 in all). While working for the Dallas Morning News, he led the paper to 3 Pulitzer Prizes, beginning in 1986. He died in June 2004 after suffering from cancer.

Susan Woods was born on 6 April 1957 in Gillespie County, Texas, USA. She died on 26 July 1987 in Stephenville, Texas, USA.

At 95 years old, Theressa is still an active and working actress doing both film and commercial work. She is often referred to as the 'one take wonder' on set as she rarely ever blows a line and delivers it perfectly the first time.

When not on the set, she enjoys gardening and grows some of the most beautiful roses in town. She also enjoys trolling the Internet looking for new gardening tips and exchanging emails with other gardeners around the world.