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Mr. Sues was in New York when he learned Mr. Schlatter wanted to work with him. “When I heard that he wanted to talk to me, I called him in Los Angeles,” Mr. Sues was quoted as saying in “From Beautiful Downtown Burbank: A Critical History of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, 1968-1973,” by Hal Erickson. “His secretary said he was on the other line, so I said, ‘Well, tell him I’m in a phone booth and it’s filling with water.’
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Alan Sues (1926-2011). Before Laugh-In, he was cast in Edie Adams’ Vegas act by producer George Schlatter.
Alan Sues, a ‘Laugh-In’ Cast Mainstay, Dies at 85 - NYTimes.com