Alan Sues

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Alan Sues (born March 7, 1926) is an American actor and comedian, arguably best known for his role as a regular performer on the comedy series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 until 1972. On that program Sues played a number of characters, including a children's show host named "Uncle Al the Kiddies' Pal," as well as "Big Al", the sports reporter in "Laugh-In Looks At The News." He was also known for his ability to move his eyeballs very rapidly. Sues would frequently appear in short visual gags appearing to follow the flight of an imaginary fly, accompanied by a loud insectlike buzzing sound.

Sues was one of only a very few primetime television personalities of the late 1960s and early 1970s who was known for exhibiting stereotypically gay-male behavior. On Laugh-In, while never explicitly saying he was gay, he employed exaggerated gestures and was known for acting in an intentionally "over the top" effiminate way, as a stereotype of a homosexual man (or at least as most mainstream audiences of the era imagined gay men to be).

Since Laugh-In, Sues has starred in only a few made-for-television movies and theatrical films, such as Oh, Heavenly Dog! in 1980.