As some of you already know, famous voice actor and comedian Gary Owens died yesterday. Most people knew of him only from "Laugh-In," while some of us fondly remember him as the voice of Roger Ramjet, the original Space Ghost, Blue Falcon, Powdered Toast Man, Dirk Niblick of the Math Brigade and many others.

Personally, I loved his vocal contributions to the earliest seasons of Sesame Street:

H is for Hello:



I is for Impolite:



K is For Kangaroo:



Gary's regular voice in all of the above is instantly recognizable, of course. But did you know that he also did trick voices? One famous example that nobody knows Gary did was the voice of the guy doing the rocket countdown in every one of these classic Sesame Street segments:



And here's nearly all the rest of them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg07FuW29lE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIEaIe7DA7w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aoMFkx-dgI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIiFlU6Vsio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dECecuzYzOU

God bless you, Gary -- you made us laugh even when we didn't know it was you...