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Here’s a fun game to play with your friends: try and guess the age of James Lipton, host of Inside the Actors Studio. Your first thought is probably, "Somewhere in his 60’s." But then you remember that he’s been hosting that show for years. And he DID look well past middle age on Arrested Development. So, you figure he’s at least 70, and so as not to look like a chump, you settle on, say, 73.

And then you find out that he’s actually EIGHTY FOUR. What? Really? Eighty four year-olds shouldn’t be able to go toe-to-toe with the likes of Conan O’Brien and Ricky Gervais. And THEN you find out that this isn’t even close to the most amazing fact about this man. Because James Lipton...

WROTE THE THEME TO THE THUNDER CATS (h/t Warming Glow)

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