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One of the things that we rarely see portrayed on television anymore is the character of the lovable and affable drunk.

Hal Smith famously played the hapless and chronically drunk Otis on The Andy Griffith Show, but another well known funny man “drunkard” was actor and comedian, Foster Brooks.

Brooks put people like Dean Martin in stitches as he expertly acted the drunk professional on his way to perform jobs that necessitate intense sobriety.

Brooks’ over-the-top antics always drew laughter for the utter absurdity of it all.

Foster Brooks Slays

Foster Brooks was the king of making it impossible not to laugh.

Brooks perfectly stumbles over the three sections of the brain during a skit where he plays a drunk brain surgeon at the bar trying to “settle his nerves” before heading to work.

He sends the audience into a fit of laughter as he declares “I’ll know it when I see it!” when he forgets the third major part of the brain.

Martin really cracks up when Brooks comes back as an impaired airline pilot —