Television History Ruth Buzzi Signed Corporate Compensation Authorization 1980

Ruth Buzzi

Manuscripts & Autographs

Buzzi, Ruth. Signed corporate compensation authorization dated 1980 documenting the financial administration of actress and comedian Ruth Buzzi's personal corporation during the later years of her entertainment career. Best known for her Emmy Award-winning work on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Buzzi was among the most recognizable female comedians on American television during the late 1960s and 1970s. The document records the business mechanisms through which a successful television performer managed professional income, providing primary-source evidence for the study of the corporate and financial structures increasingly employed by entertainers during the late twentieth century.

Buzzi, Ruth. Document signed. April 25, 1980. 1 page, quarto. Signed in green ink as director of Pootie Inc., authorizing that "Ruth Buzzi be compensated in the amount of Twenty Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) for the fiscal year..." The document records a formal corporate resolution governing executive compensation, illustrating how performer-owned corporations functioned in practice through internal financial authorizations and signed administrative records. Its contemporaneous execution preserves evidence of the legal and accounting framework surrounding Buzzi's professional earnings after her years as a network television star.

1 page, quarto. Three binder punch holes along the left margin, not affecting the text or signature. Otherwise clean and well preserved, in excellent condition. A revealing piece of entertainment industry business ephemera documenting the corporate management of one of American television's most influential comedians through an original signed financial record.

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