B-13 Peer Review: A Fond Reminder- Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman is an American actress and comedian. In a career spanning over seven decades she has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, and an Academy Award for her role in The Last Picture Show. As Miss Chicago, Leachman competed in the 20th Miss America pageant and placed in the Top 16 in 1946. 

Cloris Leachman (born April 30, 1926) is an American actress and comedian. In a career spanning over seven decades she has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards (record tied with Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a Daytime Emmy Award, and an Academy Award for her role in The Last Picture Show (1971).

As Miss Chicago, Leachman competed in the 20th Miss America pageant and placed in the Top 16 in 1946. Leachman's longest-running role was the nosy and cunning landlady Phyllis Lindstrom on the CBS sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off, Phyllis, in the 1970s.

She also appeared in three Mel Brooks films, including Young Frankenstein (1974), starred as Beverly Ann Stickle on the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life from 1986–88, and appeared as Granny in The Beverly Hillbillies (1993).

In the 2000s, Leachman had a recurring role as Grandma Ida on the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, and appeared as a roaster in the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget in 2008.

She was a contestant on the seventh season of the ABC reality competition series Dancing with the Stars in 2008, paired with Corky Ballas. She was 82 at the time and is the oldest contestant to have danced on the series. From 2010–14, she starred as Maw Maw on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope.
In 2017, she played the role of Zorya Vechernyaya on the Starz drama American Gods.

B-13 Peer Review: 

Tonight I watched Cloris on Celebrity Wife swap. I must say I was thoroughly entertained. Cloris is as funny as I remember her as a child. Her quick wit and charismatic wisdom made me fall in love with her all over again and I would like to see more of her. I could have watched this episode as a reality series and I must say I would tune in every week to get more laughs with Ms Leachman and her family. As I watched I began to realize that her daughter gets a kick out of her as much as I did.

My parent loved to watch her when I was a kid; that is how I got to know of her. As a man after viewing this I had a revived appreciation for who she is as a matriarch and comedian. Moreover, she is the matriarch of comedy. She truly deserved all the accolades she received in her youth and as far as I am concerned she is so deserving of so much more. While watching this episode I laughed until I cried and I learned. That is the best way to learn wouldn't you agree?

Below is the episode of wife swap I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and more. LOVE YOU Ms Leachman!!!!

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