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Charles Elmer "Rip" Taylor Jr. (January 13, 1931 – October 6, 2019) was an American actor and comedian known for his exuberance and flamboyant persona, including a wild mustache, a wig, and a habit of showering himself (and others) with confetti.

Throughout the 1970s, Taylor was a frequent celebrity panelist on television game shows such as Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth, and The Gong Show, and also substituted for Charles Nelson Reilly on Match Game. He became a regular on Sid and Marty Krofft's Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, playing Sheldon, a sea genie who lived in a conch shell. In addition, Taylor was a regular on The Brady Bunch Hour, playing the role of neighbor and entertainer Jack Merrill. In 1978 he also hosted a short-lived beauty pageant parody called The $1.98 Beauty Show, created by Gong Show producer and host Chuck Barris.