On this day in 1916, comedian and actor Jackie Gleason was born in Brooklyn, NY to Mae and Herb Gleason, Irish immigrants from Farranree, Co. Cork. After a rough start, with his father abandoning the family when Gleason was 9 and his mother's death when he was 19, Gleason found early success, going from occasional MC, to comedian, to paid actor by age 24. He is best remembered … [Read more...] about February 26, 1916