was the headwriter for the first season of Hee Haw and The Muppet Show. Schreiber appeared on an episode with The Muppet Show during that first season. Burns also co-wrote The Muppet Movie (with Jerry Juhl, his successor as head writer of The Muppet Show). He hosted a 1977 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live. In the early 1980s, Burns became a writer, announcer and occasional performer on the ABC sketch comedy series Fridays. He and comedian Michael Richards were involved in a staged on-air fight with Andy Kaufman, later re-created in the Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon (with Kaufman's longtime friend Bob Zmuda portraying Burns.) Burns teamed with Lorenzo Music to provide the voices for a pair of crash test dummies named Vince and Larry, respectively, in a series of United States Department of Transportation public service announcements that promoted the use of seat belts. Distributed by the Ad Council, the advertising campaign ran from 1985 to 1998. In 1993, he starred in the animated series Animaniacs, as the voice of Sid the Squid, giving the character a raspy, Daffy Duck kind of voice. Schreiber also appeared on the show as the voice of Beanie the Brain-Dead Bison. Burns was a guest voice in a 1999 episode of The Simpsons called "Beyond Blunderdome.” Burns died from respiratory failure on January 27, 2020, at age 86, in Los Angeles, California. References External links The Revenge of Warren Ferguson on the Andy Griffith Show Part One of a two-part Jack Burns Biography 1933 births 2020 deaths 20th-century American comedians 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American comedians 21st-century American male actors American male comedians American male screenwriters American male television actors American male television writers American male voice actors American television writers Burials at Los Angeles National Cemetery Deaths from respiratory failure Male actors from Boston Screenwriters from Massachusetts United States Marine Corps personnel of the Korean War United States Marines