Jack Burns (born November 15, 1933) is an American comedian.

He launched his career as part of a short-lived double act with George Carlin. Longer lasting was a later teaming with Avery Schreiber, who he met when they were both members of The Second City. Burns and Schreiber were best known for a series of routines in which Burns played a talkative taxicab passenger, with Schreiber as the driver.

Burns played the dedicated but inept deputy sheriff Warren Ferguson during the first half of the 1965-66 season of The Andy Griffith Show, as Barney Fife's replacement after Don Knotts left the cast. His character was not popular and was dropped without explanation after eleven appearances. The series did not have a deputy after Burns left the cast, though Goober Pyle was available in an emergency.

Burns voiced the character Ralph Kane in the syndicated cartoon "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" (1972-1974).

Burns was the head writer for the first season of The Muppet Show. His comedy partner Avery Schreiber appeared on an episode of the first season. He also co-wrote The Muppet Movie (with Jerry Juhl, his successor as head writer of The Muppet Show).

Jack Burns hosted a 1977 episode of Saturday Night Live, which became the first episode where the show changed its name from "Saturday Night" to "Saturday Night Live" after the Howard Cosell show of the same name was cancelled. Coincidentally, in the early 1980s, Burns became a writer and sometimes-performer for the ABC sketch show Fridays (which was modeled heavily after SNL) and was also involved in a stunning on-air fight with Andy Kaufman, later re-created in the Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon.

He was teamed with Lorenzo Music to provide the voices for a pair of crash test dummies in a series of public service announcements on car safety. In 1993, Burns starred in the cartoon-series Animaniacs, as the voice of Sid the Squid, giving the character a raspy, Daffy Duck kind of voice. Former partner Avery Schreiber also appeared on the show as Beanie the Bison.

Jack Burns, a native of St Andrews, was a Scottish golfer.

While employed as golf professional and greenkeeper at Warwick Golf Club in England, Burns won the 1888 British Open, which was held at the St Andrews Links that year. In those days a major championship title didn't make a man's fortune, and Burns later moved back to St Andrews to work on the railways.

Jack Burns is the former Offensive Assistant for the Washington Redskins. He has held many different coaching positions for Washington including Wide receivers coach and Quarterbacks coach. He was one of eight former and/or current NFL Coordinators on Joe Gibbs' coaching staff.

John Irving Burns (August 31, 1907 — April 18, 1975), nicknamed "Slug," was an American first baseman, coach and scout in Major League Baseball. A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Burns stood 6' (183 cm) and weighed 175 pounds (79.4 kg) in his playing days, and batted and threw lefthanded.

Burns' professional playing career began in 1928 in the New England League. After leading the Class A Western League in home runs with 36 in 1929, his contract was purchased by the St. Louis Browns of the American League. After a brief MLB trail in 1930, Burns became the starting first baseman for the Browns in 1931. He handled those duties for 5½ seasons until he was traded to the Detroit Tigers on April 30, 1936, for pitcher Chief Hogsett. He returned to the minor leagues at the end of that campaign for the remainder of his playing career. In Burns' finest season for the Browns, 1932, he scored 111 runs, batted .305, hit 11 homers and drove in 70 RBI. Over his major league career (1930-36), he appeared in 890 games, and batted .280 with 44 homers and 417 runs batted in. He led American League first basemen in assists in 1931 and 1932.

Burns became a manager in the minor leagues with the 1938 Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League, replacing Dan Howley on June 27 with the Leafs in eighth place. He rallied the team to a fifth place standing that year, but when Toronto finished last in 1939, Burns was released. After World War II, he joined the Boston Red Sox farm system, managing their Eastern League affiliates in Scranton and Albany from 1949-54. His 1952 Albany club won the league pennant.

Burns then spent five seasons (1955-59) as the Red Sox' third-base coach, working primarily under manager Pinky Higgins. He scouted for Boston from 1960 until his death, at Brighton, Massachusetts, at the age of 67.

Started out in stand-up as one-half of the comedy team "Burns & Carlin" with George Carlin. After the duo broke up, Jack went on to become a member of the famed Second City comedy troupe in Chicago, where he met Avery Schreiber. He and Schreiber would perform as a comedy team for several years before Jack would go on to become the head writer on the first season of "Muppet Show, The" (1976).

He can currently be heard on radio stations in a series of commercial spots, starring Vince and Larry, the crash test dummies. The series of commercials -- of which there are currently three -- are new versions of a series of TV ads, which Burns did with the late Lorenzo Music. Burns is the voice of Vince.