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Charlies Callas, the human whoopee cushion, has died at the age of 83. With a career based on bizarre noises and manic faces that give Jim Carrey a quiet dignity by comparison, Callas was a fixture in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s on the talk and variety shows of Merv Griffin, David Frost, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, Mike Douglas, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Flip Wilson, Joey Bishop and, until he violated his personal space, Johnny Carson. Callas also played himself emceeing a funeral in Amazon Women on the Moon, brought his cerebral stylings to the films of Mel Brooks, including Dracula: Dead and Loving It, High Anxiety, Silent Movie and History of the World — Part I, and voiced Pete’s Dragon Elliot.