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Chuck and June Schodowski at his 80th birthday party Saturday night in Hinckley.

"Big Chuck" Schodowski, whose jobs at Fox 8 since 1960 have included host, producer and director, and chief meteorologist Dick Goddard, who started on Cleveland TV in 1961.

HINCKLEY, Ohio -- "Big Chuck" Schodowski created and played hundreds of characters for thousands of broadcasts in a television career dating back to 1960.

He played himself on Saturday night for an audience of more than 200 family members and friends who gathered to celebrate his 80th birthday at Our Lady of Grace church hall, not far from his home in Hinckley.

"How many are here tonight? Raise your hands!" he said, using a signature line that's drawn chuckles from crowds for decades.

He told them he had started a bucket list as his birthday approached. Near the top of it, he said, "I always wanted to sing with a barbershop quartet."

So he did that. Backed up by the group Moments in Time, he crooned "When Your Old Wedding Ring Was New" to June, his wife of almost 58 years, who sat surrounded by grandchildren.

Inevitably among parytgoers was "Lil' John" Rinaldi, Schodowski's TV partner since 1979, and regulars from WJW Channel 8's "Big Chuck & Lil' John Show" including Jim Szymanski, Art Lofredo, Bill Ward and long-ago pizza-eating champion "Mushmouth" Mariano Pacetti, who came from Georgia for the occasion.

When Fox 8 meteorologist Dick Goddard stood next to Schodowski, the duo represented a combined 107 years on Cleveland TV.

"I'm no longer the oldest one here," Schodowski said, laughing.

"Oh to be 80 again," said Goddard, who is 83.

Schodowski, who was hired for a "temporary" position at Fox 8, said he wasn't sure the job was permanent until he retired from it after 47 years, in 2007.

The retirement turned out to be temporary, too. He and Rinaldi still appear on the station, every Saturday at 11 a.m.

Station vice president Kevin Salyer said they'll continue "as long as I draw breath," and he noted a benefit for anyone who's ever appeared on one of the show's thousands of re-running comedy skits: "It's like being immortal."