Socked

Alan Sues, the poor man’s Paul Lynde on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, has died of a heart attack at the age of 85. Sues spent much of his time playing broadly flamboyant characters, like a cowboy strolling into a saloon surrounded by whiskey-drinking hombres and ordering a daiquiri. Among his recurring characters were Big Al, an effeminate sportscaster more obsessed with ringing a bell than announcing the day’s action, and perennially hung-over children’s entertainer Uncle Al, the Kiddies Pal.