Johan Aasen, The Tallest Comedian in History
Today is the birthday of Johan (John) Aasen (1890-1938), best known as the giant Colosso in Harold Lloyd’s Why Worry? (1923).  Accounts of his height vary wildly, from nearly nine feet tall, to a little over seven. (People have measured what is purported to be his skeleton and it is 7’2″, but in photograph after photograph [...]