Don Knotts, dead at 81
From AP via CNN: Don Knotts, who kept generations of TV audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on “The Andy Griffith Show” has died.
From the obit: “‘I went to New York cold. On a $100 bill. Bummed a ride,’ he recalled in a visit to his hometown of Morgantown, where city officials renamed a street for him in 1998.
Within six months, Knotts had taken a job on a radio Western called ‘Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders,’ playing a wisecracking, know-it-all handyman. He stayed with it for five years, then came his series TV debut on ‘The Steve Allen Show.’”