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Bobbie Baker

American comedian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ4934622 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bobbie Baker is amongst the long list of comedians who appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. There were two appearances in 1962.

Editorial summary

“Bobbie Baker” enters the record as american comedian. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bobbie, Baker and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bobbie, Baker and American.
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“Bobbie Baker” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bobbie, Baker and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4934622. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1962.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bobbie Baker” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.