Poor techran. Spends 4 months on a youtube page trying to convince anyone who will listen that he has a clue about comedy, especially since he was about 3 years old when the show aired.
A man that laughs at graven image, or any dis-likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under is a man with low self esteem....
Laugh-In wasn't funny. Not a single one of the jokes in the above example are funny. The Sketches weren't funny. Socket it to me, wasn't funny. Very Interesting wasn't funny. "Blow in my ear and I'll follow you anywhere" Was also NOT funny! It was a stupid show!
@techraan Thank God, I thought I was the only one in the worldwho thought this was the stupidest, most unfunny, waste of time ever to have been on TV. The writers sucked, Rowan had absolutely no talent at all and Martin was a total lame-o. The few times I watched the show I never cracked a smile once. Pure garbage!
@techraan it was very funny back then and still is.... But what can I expect from a 43 year old man who has one of the most CHILDISH homepage profiles I have ever seen... STICK to your Klingons and talking to yourself while u play a video game...OMG... PLEASE everyone...check his profile and you'll see why he doesn't think Laugh In is funny!!
@NJGUY46 AHAHAHAHH You're right. I'm a 43 year old, married man, that maintains gainful employment the best I can in this difficult economy. When I get home, I'll be as childish as I want to, and yes everyone, please visit my Youtube channel.
Finally, Laugh-In still isn't funny. As for Klingons, the show that had the Klingons on it was a way better show than Laugh In.
Njguy46, your comment was not, "Very Interesting" at all. DERP!
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@beatlequeen06 Well, towards the end of its run, the series was dying out. They had run out of good material and the show died a natural death. I remember watching it in its last seasons and it just wasn't that funny any more.
@fatkinson1954 I remember that also; the humor staled. I think part of it was the times they were a-changin, too. But in its first couple of seasons you didn't bother going to school the day after the show if you hadn't seen it - it was all everyone talked about that day.
I was watching clips of this show and my dad walked by and we started watching it together. He was watching Laugh-in when he was 7 or 8 and it's really great to find something that he and I both enjoy.
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i agree with @TheCovertConverser. what did this generation do that was so horrible that they had to give us shows this bad. PLEASE GIVE US BACK LAUGH IN!!! we'll give you the kardasians!!!
1:30 --"Laugh-In Looks at the News" intro was obviously inspired by the latest Bond opening montage-- lol. And OMG--3:01, there's Frank and Fanny Farkel and their bizarre children who strangely enough were dead ringers for genial neighbor Ferd Berfel! ("Fiiiine lookin' family ya got there, Frank...") Love this stuff so much!
@unapparatus you cant really mean that. there is so much classic comedy of high caliber. it's time you got familiar with some of it. from buster keaton to the three stooges and right through the 60's and 70's sitcoms, rodney dangerfield, jack benny and on and on.
@unapparatus comedy is comedy, change the names, faces and places and real, honest, true comedy will survive. if your idea of comedy is friends and seinfeld, we have nothing to discuss. you find keaton merely "interesting"? c'mon, you can do better than that!
@sickkat44 You have no idea how many old people have been messaging me to defend this pablum. I was going to let it drop, but putting Seinfeld and friends side by side in your comment as if equal? That sir/ma'am will not stand.
@sickkat44 Seinfeld by many different metrics has been voted to be one of the best shows in the history of television.Ever.Look it up.Yet you lump it in with friends as representative of some type of comedy decline in your mind.As for debating whether laugh in or any of the other comedians that you mentioned are laugh out loud funny(except for Rodney), I'm not interested.Conduct your own test and gather some younger people and try to make them sit through a laugh in show.Be prepared for boredom.
@unapparatus most people i know found seinfeld more annoying than entertaining, with the exception of kramer. the "greatest show ever" was being used during the last lame year leading up to the unfunniest final sitcom episode ever. surely you dont disagree with that. sorry, but until you expose yourself to more classic comedy, you have no good arguements, only an opinion.
@sickkat44 You are in your 40s,most people you know probably are as well.I am younger and speaking from a modern viewpoint.It is a bit silly that you assume I have no exposure to older comedians, and that must be the only reason I don't slap my knee and fall over laughing when Buster falls off a ladder,or people get confused about who really is on first base.Does it not compute that for a show to be voted the best show ever, there must be more people that think the way I do, than the way you do?
@unapparatus The way I see it, TV and humor, like anything else changes from one generation to the next. Laugh In in particular is very much a product of the time. The humor and references are ones that many wouldn't understand unless they grew up in the 60's. I am 23 and assume you are young as well. We are looking at this show from the perspective of a younger person, just as sickkat44 is looking at new shows from the perspective of someone older. It's the generation, not the show/humor.
@chickenbuttguesswhat I totally agree. I have no doubt that plenty of shows now will make less sense 40 years from now. But still, if you just look at the type of TV that was on in the 60s, it was safe, Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke type of stuff. There was much funnier stuff going on in clubs and in movies. I mean Lenny Bruce was a stand up act at the time,Dr. Strangelove was put out at that time. It took TV a while to start taking chances. I think All in the Family started it for me.
why not do clean comedy all the time, sometimes the jokes were clean. Other times nasty.
It would have been really good if all that wonderful talent had brought Glory to God in his Son Jesus. What a wonderful Family Friendly show that would have been!!
Galatians 5:1 "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage."
The show was a classic. I need to see if they have it out on DVD. A lot better than the SNL suff (post Chase, Ackroyd....). I remember eveyone was saying Judy Carne was the hottie and the future 'it' girl. She crashed and burned and Goldie Hawn went on to mega status.
I remember, dirty oldman & miss hepelfinger on the bench, Do you believe in the here after ? , Yes! , Good , then you know what I'm here after ! And how they tried to get Goldie to say ,Sock it to me , so they could dump water on her. One skit they gave her rice wine , & she said it may be rice wine to you but its Saki to me!
This is verrrry interesting -- but extremely silly!
For a long time I thought that, "Would you care for a Walnetto?" was a good pickup line... later, I found that "Sock it to me!" was a better way to approach the ladies.
We always looked forward to Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In on Friday nights. Everything about the show was so groovy. I remember Arte Johnson asking Ruth Buzzi if she believed in the hereafter. She replied yes and Johnson's reply was "then you know what I'm here after". Just a great line!
I don't disrespect your comment, but I'm quite positive that it was broadcast on Monday evenings. It was actually something to look forward to at 8:00 PM on NBC in Detroit, Mich. Other members have posted the same info. Happy New Year!!
Laugh In was one of so many good shows back then, such as Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Burnett, All in the Family and M*A*S*H*. Television today is just pathetic, reality tv trash.
I agree! There was far more imagination in a single episode of any of the shows you mention than in just about all the rubbish today (excluding the Simpsons and possibly a few others).
@beatlequeen06 I like Kids in the Hall and Puppets Who Kill (both Canadian shows, eh). But yeah, I know what you mean. Shows back then were really starting to push the envelope and go beyond what had been conventional up to that point.
@beatlequeen06 i think lack of commercial value is to blame. there's simply not enough money in advertising on tv, so all the networks just go with some crappy, cheap reality bullshit, cause they know they'll get ratings anyway. and the reason for that i assume is the huge amount of different networks there are - simply too many. and of course, piracy plays a certain part as well.
It brings me back to being a child when I was mom & dads remote control With the old round dial channel changer on the tv .I was so happy when they came out with the remote, granted it had a cable going to the tv, to trip up the unsuspecting grandparent but hey i didn't have to change channel. I can almost hear my Mothers laugh as she watched this show May she rest in peace . Miss you Mom& Dad love you guys Rick
Thing is...it didn't matter whether you were conservative or liberal; this show transcended political parties. Their attitude was, "Whatever it is, we're against it."
Reading some of the negative comments makes me realize that you really had to be there to appreciate how great this show was. And Im soooo greatfull to be part of the Laugh-in Generation. People are just cynical and too concerned with being PC now a days.
dianoraeseryn....You are right on. Being an aging hippie I can relate to all of this. If you didn't live through the 60's as a youth, I guess you can't really appreciate it.
yea. all the negative comments are by younguns that didnt live in the era, and are snotty unappreciative brats that live off mom and dad or society :-D
The whole point of satire is that it doesn't 'represent' its subject - it sends them up.
If it wasn't playful and over the top it wouldn't be funny - unlike today's material that's so santitised lest it may offend someone somewhere, that there's no humour left.
If we can't laugh at ourselves, where's the joy in living?
Laugh-In was rarely funny, and it doesn't represent the Sixties. It was a "square" (mainstream) co-opting of hippie stereotypes. That's why someone like Nixon could appear on it.
I agree. I think the Movie "Forrest Gump" shows the hippies in a MUCH more realistic way.
I wonder if there is a good book that would catalog and describe the hippies accurately. You know, a real historian not infected with the disease of liberalism.
What made "Laugh-In" unique and different was its form as well as its content. Like the experimental comedy of Ernie Kovacs a few years earlier, it was "absolute television" -- it couldn't have existed in any other medium. The rapid-fire pacing may seem normal to a generation raised on MTV and 15-second commercials, but in the late 1960s it was new and hip.
(continued from previous post) And while many of the jokes were corny, dating back to vaudeville and burlesque, the show had topical and political humor that was daring for American commercial TV at that time. Like they say, you really hadda be there.
Of course, a lot of us who were of a certain age back then -- say, between puberty and adultery -- watched "Laugh-In" just for the delectable Goldie Hawn.
OH, I DISAGREE w/anyone who doesnt' think this is funny...and GREAT comedy!...how did R&M Laughin get nixon to say SOCK IT TO ME???? on prime time...buzzi, worley & the bunch were fantastic...wish TV LAND would play the series instead of stuff like cosby that we've seen forever!
you people need to get a life laugh in is just as funny now as ever. sorry all you have on tv these day r useless reality shows, dumb sit coms, tons of cable reruns, the wwe cnn msnbc and bill o'rielly sorry you have lost your sence of humor.
You guys are right, as much as I loved Laugh-In back then, it just didn't age well. I sure wish it would've, there's certain aspects of Laugh-In I still love. But it's just not funny anymore.
It was quite ground-breaking for it's time, a very unique show.
At any rate, it was awfully cool seeing France Nuyen (Elaan of Troyius in the original Star Trek) at 2:50. I had no idea she was ever in Laugh-In.
I Loved the show back then... But sorry to all you die-hard fans... This show DID NOT age well!! But then topical humor never does. Dont get me wrong! This show was a milestone in TV comedy. You can still see it's roots on SNL (sometime). Im sure Dick and Dan are now doing stand-up somewhere in the great beyond. RIP.
I can tell you this-Laugh In was the blueprint for such shows as SNL, The Colbert Report and Mad TV. Let alone a lot of the sketch shows you see on televison today.
RIP Dickie!! I know this sounds horrible but maybe now somebody will start showing this in re-runs again. *I'm looking at you Nick at Nite* I miss it terribly. It's amazing how well this has aged.
Laugh-In owed a lot of its style to the experimental and surrealistic comedy that Ernie Kovacs had done a few years earlier. Kovacs was one of the first entertainers to realize that TV wasn't live theater, movies or radio-with-pictures -- it was its own "thing," with its own unique possibilities. "Laugh-In," with its machine-gun pace and topical humor, suddenly made the traditional 1-hour variety-show format look old-fashioned (although variety shows didn't completely die until about 1980).
First saw this in Ireland back in the mid-eighties when Channel 4 showed it. Anyone else over this side of the pond remember this? Love The Farkles, telephone operator and the trike man!
Now this material (and its delivery by a terrific cast) sure beats the pants off the junk on tv these days!! Rowan and Martin really entertained and there was always bound to be a laugh or a smile along the way. Great tv back then. Thanks for posting!
Poor techran. Spends 4 months on a youtube page trying to convince anyone who will listen that he has a clue about comedy, especially since he was about 3 years old when the show aired.
probably dropped on his head at 2, what a douche.
welcome2myhell 3 weeks ago
A man that laughs at graven image, or any dis-likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under is a man with low self esteem....
STjoes824 1 month ago
Amusing even now, and funnier then. I like it for the time capsule it is on the late 60s.
hardcorehouse 1 month ago
@jdkellyproductions2 "Laugh-In 80's" Loading!! TV Series "TeenNick" Be Here!! Tv Channel:"Nick At Nite Classic" Night. Coming Soon...
BLANKNOTING 4 months ago
I always had a thing for Ruth Buzzu
elvis3700 4 months ago
I must say this is not representative of what Laugh-In offered....even Johnny had his off-nights.
jackpark7927 4 months ago
Laugh-In wasn't funny. Not a single one of the jokes in the above example are funny. The Sketches weren't funny. Socket it to me, wasn't funny. Very Interesting wasn't funny. "Blow in my ear and I'll follow you anywhere" Was also NOT funny! It was a stupid show!
techraan 5 months ago
@techraan Thank God, I thought I was the only one in the worldwho thought this was the stupidest, most unfunny, waste of time ever to have been on TV. The writers sucked, Rowan had absolutely no talent at all and Martin was a total lame-o. The few times I watched the show I never cracked a smile once. Pure garbage!
logancody05 4 months ago
@techraan it was funny for its time.
Scar2401 4 months ago
@techraan it was very funny back then and still is.... But what can I expect from a 43 year old man who has one of the most CHILDISH homepage profiles I have ever seen... STICK to your Klingons and talking to yourself while u play a video game...OMG... PLEASE everyone...check his profile and you'll see why he doesn't think Laugh In is funny!!
NJGUY46 2 months ago 2
@NJGUY46 AHAHAHAHH You're right. I'm a 43 year old, married man, that maintains gainful employment the best I can in this difficult economy. When I get home, I'll be as childish as I want to, and yes everyone, please visit my Youtube channel.
Finally, Laugh-In still isn't funny. As for Klingons, the show that had the Klingons on it was a way better show than Laugh In.
Njguy46, your comment was not, "Very Interesting" at all. DERP!
techraan 2 months ago
"Rowan & Martin Laugh-In" Or "Laugh-In" 80's TV Series Coming Soon... Same "Hee Haw" Courtry..
BLANKNOTING 5 months ago
You don't really see women talking about the news and rubbing themselves on polar bears anymore.
SukhberS 6 months ago
this is what robot chicken was born from
invrcuss 6 months ago
kumaha damang?
malamdigongli 6 months ago
i luv this show good entertainment!
propagandadrunken 6 months ago
Aw, you dropped out at Arte Johnson's famous line, "Verrry interesting... but shtupid!"
Floymin 8 months ago
@erw165
FYROM100 10 months ago
SOCK IT TO ME!
erw165 10 months ago
What's wrong with your sound?
vstarbiker 11 months ago
laugh while america rots.
originaltbyrd 11 months ago
It was the first show I remember watching in the UK in colour. I wish they would show repeats.
billdadd 11 months ago
I used to love this show!!
catmutterer 1 year ago
This show was so off the charts! LOL Always liked Jo Anne Worley, so crazy who is still around at 73. Funny lady.
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Kirby4185 1 year ago
@beatlequeen06 Well, towards the end of its run, the series was dying out. They had run out of good material and the show died a natural death. I remember watching it in its last seasons and it just wasn't that funny any more.
fatkinson1954 1 year ago
@fatkinson1954 I remember that also; the humor staled. I think part of it was the times they were a-changin, too. But in its first couple of seasons you didn't bother going to school the day after the show if you hadn't seen it - it was all everyone talked about that day.
HickysBoy 9 months ago
Petty U.S. propaganda if your lucky to wind up here.
Ypipable 1 year ago
Henry Gobson is sorely missed! His poems were the best part of the show. :)
Bladepaw18 1 year ago
1:53 cnn should star like that
sanquis 1 year ago
i loved this show. i was a kid and didn't get some of the jokes but what i did get i still remember. the farkle family ! a whole bunch of farkles!
nomadnametab 1 year ago
I remember the peacock.
circuit50641 1 year ago
They stay boppin' each other in the head in this show, but 1:09 - 1:19 was for some reason the most reminiscent of Homie the Clown XD.
psylentknight 1 year ago
"veerrry innteresting.....but stupid!"
that's Arte Johnson's entire quote.
Lockemeister 1 year ago
classic, it was always on in my house as akid
rudedawg32 1 year ago
Hey buhendum, FOX NEWS RULES BABY!
MultiMrfalcon 1 year ago
Flicker Farkle... LOL!!!
Sandguy99 1 year ago
I was watching clips of this show and my dad walked by and we started watching it together. He was watching Laugh-in when he was 7 or 8 and it's really great to find something that he and I both enjoy.
TheBeccable 1 year ago
1:20 So that's how fox news got started.
buhendum 1 year ago
funny just like i remember this from back in the day, still love it,
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SkateFanatiks 1 year ago
i agree with @TheCovertConverser. what did this generation do that was so horrible that they had to give us shows this bad. PLEASE GIVE US BACK LAUGH IN!!! we'll give you the kardasians!!!
uuurrrMomsUnderwear 1 year ago
The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase
R4Zi3L 1 year ago
this show and Smothers Brothers were pretty groundbreaking at the time.
tomloft2000 1 year ago
1:30 --"Laugh-In Looks at the News" intro was obviously inspired by the latest Bond opening montage-- lol. And OMG--3:01, there's Frank and Fanny Farkel and their bizarre children who strangely enough were dead ringers for genial neighbor Ferd Berfel! ("Fiiiine lookin' family ya got there, Frank...") Love this stuff so much!
TheCatgirl6 1 year ago
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unapparatus 1 year ago
@unapparatus you cant really mean that. there is so much classic comedy of high caliber. it's time you got familiar with some of it. from buster keaton to the three stooges and right through the 60's and 70's sitcoms, rodney dangerfield, jack benny and on and on.
sickkat44 1 year ago
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unapparatus 1 year ago
@unapparatus comedy is comedy, change the names, faces and places and real, honest, true comedy will survive. if your idea of comedy is friends and seinfeld, we have nothing to discuss. you find keaton merely "interesting"? c'mon, you can do better than that!
sickkat44 1 year ago
@sickkat44 You have no idea how many old people have been messaging me to defend this pablum. I was going to let it drop, but putting Seinfeld and friends side by side in your comment as if equal? That sir/ma'am will not stand.
unapparatus 1 year ago
@unapparatus so defend yourself! what will not stand and why?
sickkat44 1 year ago
@sickkat44 Seinfeld by many different metrics has been voted to be one of the best shows in the history of television.Ever.Look it up.Yet you lump it in with friends as representative of some type of comedy decline in your mind.As for debating whether laugh in or any of the other comedians that you mentioned are laugh out loud funny(except for Rodney), I'm not interested.Conduct your own test and gather some younger people and try to make them sit through a laugh in show.Be prepared for boredom.
unapparatus 1 year ago
@unapparatus most people i know found seinfeld more annoying than entertaining, with the exception of kramer. the "greatest show ever" was being used during the last lame year leading up to the unfunniest final sitcom episode ever. surely you dont disagree with that. sorry, but until you expose yourself to more classic comedy, you have no good arguements, only an opinion.
sickkat44 1 year ago
@sickkat44 You are in your 40s,most people you know probably are as well.I am younger and speaking from a modern viewpoint.It is a bit silly that you assume I have no exposure to older comedians, and that must be the only reason I don't slap my knee and fall over laughing when Buster falls off a ladder,or people get confused about who really is on first base.Does it not compute that for a show to be voted the best show ever, there must be more people that think the way I do, than the way you do?
unapparatus 1 year ago
@unapparatus The way I see it, TV and humor, like anything else changes from one generation to the next. Laugh In in particular is very much a product of the time. The humor and references are ones that many wouldn't understand unless they grew up in the 60's. I am 23 and assume you are young as well. We are looking at this show from the perspective of a younger person, just as sickkat44 is looking at new shows from the perspective of someone older. It's the generation, not the show/humor.
chickenbuttguesswhat 1 year ago
@chickenbuttguesswhat I totally agree. I have no doubt that plenty of shows now will make less sense 40 years from now. But still, if you just look at the type of TV that was on in the 60s, it was safe, Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke type of stuff. There was much funnier stuff going on in clubs and in movies. I mean Lenny Bruce was a stand up act at the time,Dr. Strangelove was put out at that time. It took TV a while to start taking chances. I think All in the Family started it for me.
unapparatus 1 year ago
I like to get the DVD's but can never find them.
catherinemcclanahan 1 year ago
Who is this person at 1:01 who said "What with the ankle, the knee, the hip, the elbow and the wrist."??
CraigFoye80 1 year ago
@CraigFoye80 That's Arte Johnson.
TheJohnnyCotts 1 year ago
Thank God for video tape !!!!
gto66solstice08 1 year ago
How many young people realilze this was the precursor to Saturday Night Live?
ProgressiveJoeWest 1 year ago
stupid
xiezongjun 1 year ago
@xiezongjun we know you are, maybe as you get older that will change, world needs dumb asses to. hang in there
whokeithmoon 1 year ago
why not do clean comedy all the time, sometimes the jokes were clean. Other times nasty.
It would have been really good if all that wonderful talent had brought Glory to God in his Son Jesus. What a wonderful Family Friendly show that would have been!!
Galatians 5:1 "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage."
Jesus is Lord of all. Amen.
ighforever 1 year ago
"Hiiiiiiiiii."
mjpk6269 1 year ago
but stupid?
CassandraComplex 1 year ago
The show was a classic. I need to see if they have it out on DVD. A lot better than the SNL suff (post Chase, Ackroyd....). I remember eveyone was saying Judy Carne was the hottie and the future 'it' girl. She crashed and burned and Goldie Hawn went on to mega status.
Southrn500 1 year ago
I remember, dirty oldman & miss hepelfinger on the bench, Do you believe in the here after ? , Yes! , Good , then you know what I'm here after ! And how they tried to get Goldie to say ,Sock it to me , so they could dump water on her. One skit they gave her rice wine , & she said it may be rice wine to you but its Saki to me!
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DugoreqZozecehy 2 years ago
was this a comedy?
Maxipad44142 2 years ago
@Maxipad44142
Oh yeah... variety comedy before SNL or MAD TV or any of that newer stuff.
Jantv81 1 year ago
We had Johnson, then Nixon & Vietnam, but Laugh-in was like a drug releiving the misery & angst of troubled times--& the economy was BOOMING!
buzzclick500 2 years ago
LoL @ the twins "Simon and Gar Farkel!"
Kalooookalay 2 years ago
the precursor to robot chicken
iansquared3 2 years ago
I love Laugh-In. I used to watch it when I was a sperm cell.
BartelDoo 2 years ago 3
I grew up watching these guys I love them......
Jasanna Cuch
Queenbeejacee23 2 years ago
This is verrrry interesting -- but extremely silly!
For a long time I thought that, "Would you care for a Walnetto?" was a good pickup line... later, I found that "Sock it to me!" was a better way to approach the ladies.
KaptKan1 2 years ago
I'll miss Henry Gibson. RIP
LadyViewer
LadyViewer 2 years ago 8
0:29 RIP Henry Gibson. God bless you.
olr333 2 years ago 8
We always looked forward to Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In on Friday nights. Everything about the show was so groovy. I remember Arte Johnson asking Ruth Buzzi if she believed in the hereafter. She replied yes and Johnson's reply was "then you know what I'm here after". Just a great line!
ethicomm 2 years ago 3
I know you loved the show. I did. Nevertheless, Laugh-In aired on Monday nights at 8:00 PM.
hobokenplayboy 2 years ago
Actually I believe that here in Canada it was on Friday nights though I could be wrong about that.
ethicomm 2 years ago
I don't disrespect your comment, but I'm quite positive that it was broadcast on Monday evenings. It was actually something to look forward to at 8:00 PM on NBC in Detroit, Mich. Other members have posted the same info. Happy New Year!!
hobokenplayboy 2 years ago
That was an old joke even back then. But it's still funny.
scotpens 2 years ago
Henry Gibson......RIP
Bob3317 2 years ago 6
With that Vietnam stuff, It is always nice to see a turd in the toilet.
82abnoff 2 years ago
Laugh In was one of so many good shows back then, such as Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Burnett, All in the Family and M*A*S*H*. Television today is just pathetic, reality tv trash.
laceyemily1 2 years ago 3
I agree! There was far more imagination in a single episode of any of the shows you mention than in just about all the rubbish today (excluding the Simpsons and possibly a few others).
bartonim 2 years ago
that was a good show. they all got full of it.
omslivie 2 years ago 2
I really wish TV like this had never died. All that's on nowadays are bullshit reality shows and other dumb crap. Bring back the good stuff!
beatlequeen06 2 years ago 68
@beatlequeen06 I like Kids in the Hall and Puppets Who Kill (both Canadian shows, eh). But yeah, I know what you mean. Shows back then were really starting to push the envelope and go beyond what had been conventional up to that point.
canadianroot 1 year ago
@beatlequeen06 i think lack of commercial value is to blame. there's simply not enough money in advertising on tv, so all the networks just go with some crappy, cheap reality bullshit, cause they know they'll get ratings anyway. and the reason for that i assume is the huge amount of different networks there are - simply too many. and of course, piracy plays a certain part as well.
leirgauk 1 year ago
@leirgauk That makes a lot of sense. Just another way technology is making our lives easier... not.
beatlequeen06 1 year ago
Look at that moon. *Slap*
Look at the stars. *Slap*
Look at this lump. *Falls over*
LOL :D
Pittoop1990 2 years ago 5
ha I remember this when I was very little.
matelot95 2 years ago
From a 16 year old, I wish television were like this nowadays.
TheCovertConverser 2 years ago 56
It brings me back to being a child when I was mom & dads remote control With the old round dial channel changer on the tv .I was so happy when they came out with the remote, granted it had a cable going to the tv, to trip up the unsuspecting grandparent but hey i didn't have to change channel. I can almost hear my Mothers laugh as she watched this show May she rest in peace . Miss you Mom& Dad love you guys Rick
jumpa01 2 years ago 2
That's Brilliant!! I love how show's can remind you of good times!!! Remote with a cable- I wish I had seen that!~!
pjecklin 2 years ago 2
Thing is...it didn't matter whether you were conservative or liberal; this show transcended political parties. Their attitude was, "Whatever it is, we're against it."
generalbullmoose 2 years ago
That's great really brings back memories , Ruth Buzzy, Henry Gibson..LMAO
sportpepr509 2 years ago
LOVE LAUGH IN! Programs today are not intelligent enough to match a show like laugh in was.
tigerdon007 2 years ago
god, goldie had/has a body on her :-D
medic739 2 years ago
You don't have to be a hippie to enjoy this show. Just open minded and holding a sense of humor.
1waytoHim 2 years ago 3
ahh...this brings me back..
syrugaur 2 years ago 2
LIEK OMG I DONTT GET IT WHERES JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE N SETH ROGAN????????
Please, people.
codeaires 2 years ago
Reading some of the negative comments makes me realize that you really had to be there to appreciate how great this show was. And Im soooo greatfull to be part of the Laugh-in Generation. People are just cynical and too concerned with being PC now a days.
dianoraeseryn 3 years ago 4
dianoraeseryn....You are right on. Being an aging hippie I can relate to all of this. If you didn't live through the 60's as a youth, I guess you can't really appreciate it.
Peace
Route625 2 years ago
lets hear it for aging hippies!!!..lol
dianoraeseryn 2 years ago
yea. all the negative comments are by younguns that didnt live in the era, and are snotty unappreciative brats that live off mom and dad or society :-D
medic739 2 years ago
I thought this was funny, and I was born 20 years after the 60's.
In 1989.
I am 19 now.
monkeymule 2 years ago
Same.
dbaquero 2 years ago
The whole point of satire is that it doesn't 'represent' its subject - it sends them up.
If it wasn't playful and over the top it wouldn't be funny - unlike today's material that's so santitised lest it may offend someone somewhere, that there's no humour left.
If we can't laugh at ourselves, where's the joy in living?
pisceanchild 3 years ago
Laugh-In was rarely funny, and it doesn't represent the Sixties. It was a "square" (mainstream) co-opting of hippie stereotypes. That's why someone like Nixon could appear on it.
SubmarinerAndroid 3 years ago
I agree. I think the Movie "Forrest Gump" shows the hippies in a MUCH more realistic way.
I wonder if there is a good book that would catalog and describe the hippies accurately. You know, a real historian not infected with the disease of liberalism.
sirjames45 3 years ago
but classic fun when needed for those like me who remembered while growing up at a young age!
Thanks to whoever uploaded this!!!!
zoeydebra 3 years ago 5
What made "Laugh-In" unique and different was its form as well as its content. Like the experimental comedy of Ernie Kovacs a few years earlier, it was "absolute television" -- it couldn't have existed in any other medium. The rapid-fire pacing may seem normal to a generation raised on MTV and 15-second commercials, but in the late 1960s it was new and hip.
scotpens 3 years ago 2
(continued from previous post) And while many of the jokes were corny, dating back to vaudeville and burlesque, the show had topical and political humor that was daring for American commercial TV at that time. Like they say, you really hadda be there.
Of course, a lot of us who were of a certain age back then -- say, between puberty and adultery -- watched "Laugh-In" just for the delectable Goldie Hawn.
scotpens 3 years ago 3
is this supposed to be funny, or just completely pathetic?
nakedBison69 3 years ago
"HIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!"
generalbullmoose 3 years ago
Blessed with six children.... and her
yomama472 3 years ago
HORIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HateHateHateHate
elementnick101 3 years ago
im 49 and when I was a kid mom wouldnt let me watch this show cause it was so nasty.. lol
Unityspirit50 3 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Sorry, but this is meagre. I mean, does it really make you laugh?? This is a stupid sense of humor.
Boris Knox, out.
And people did have sense of humor always JADYONE. Don't be such an ignorant...
AguBV 3 years ago
This is great stuff!! And in living color! What memories it brings back. I'm with you, one of the satelight channels should run this.
If ya really want to know what the 60's was about, this will be a great start. TA,TA,Dumie 'a due...FARkLE!!
JHINTON69 3 years ago 2
OH, I DISAGREE w/anyone who doesnt' think this is funny...and GREAT comedy!...how did R&M Laughin get nixon to say SOCK IT TO ME???? on prime time...buzzi, worley & the bunch were fantastic...wish TV LAND would play the series instead of stuff like cosby that we've seen forever!
1clarinet1981 3 years ago 7
Nixon wasn't president yet. No sitting president would ever do comedy like that.
dbacksmark 3 years ago
Here! Here!
LawlisMom 3 years ago
I'm trying to identify the Farkles.
Flicker is Ruth
Fred is Arte
Sparkle is Goldie
Simon & Gar were Teresa & Pamela
Who played Fritz & Mark?
futhermucker0306 3 years ago
"The alligator is ma pal!
He could be your pal too!
He will if you'd just understand
That he's got feelings too!
He loves to play and swim about!
He never sings the blues!
You'd like him better as a friend!
Then wearing him as shoes!"
lmao i thought that was funny xD
aikahana2003 3 years ago
OMG!!! I remember this stuff SO well!!
peachfoot 3 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
people had a poor sense of humor back then. It's a fact, can't argue that.
JADYONE 3 years ago
from the heart
ePhilosopher 3 years ago
Nixon? sock it to meeee?
ePhilosopher 3 years ago
OMG!!!!! i love Laugh IN....fa real...i hate reality TV cause its not real in reality...that stuff is all edited and scripted......
cashsense1 3 years ago
you people need to get a life laugh in is just as funny now as ever. sorry all you have on tv these day r useless reality shows, dumb sit coms, tons of cable reruns, the wwe cnn msnbc and bill o'rielly sorry you have lost your sence of humor.
elctricblue 3 years ago 10
rowy and marty!
icucme909 3 years ago
have u got any longer comments........
cruz0048 3 years ago
You guys are right, as much as I loved Laugh-In back then, it just didn't age well. I sure wish it would've, there's certain aspects of Laugh-In I still love. But it's just not funny anymore.
It was quite ground-breaking for it's time, a very unique show.
At any rate, it was awfully cool seeing France Nuyen (Elaan of Troyius in the original Star Trek) at 2:50. I had no idea she was ever in Laugh-In.
ohhhwolfy 3 years ago
It was kind-a funny then - now it's just creepy and annoying.
adamatova 3 years ago
I Loved the show back then... But sorry to all you die-hard fans... This show DID NOT age well!! But then topical humor never does. Dont get me wrong! This show was a milestone in TV comedy. You can still see it's roots on SNL (sometime). Im sure Dick and Dan are now doing stand-up somewhere in the great beyond. RIP.
joecrewdog 3 years ago 3
R.I.P. Dick your family are in my prayers.
teaparty92 3 years ago
get this! my high school is doing a play off laugh in! im the announcer AND the judge...
koolkruse 3 years ago 3
ohhh man, you are SO lucky!
SLCPunker101 3 years ago 2
Wish they would rerun them in original length, they edited them to half hour, really ruined it
MerleOberon 3 years ago
Say goodnight Dick.
bamag33k 3 years ago
I can tell you this-Laugh In was the blueprint for such shows as SNL, The Colbert Report and Mad TV. Let alone a lot of the sketch shows you see on televison today.
RIP Dick. Now R&M are renunited now...
ButterflyOne1223 3 years ago
RIP Dickie!! I know this sounds horrible but maybe now somebody will start showing this in re-runs again. *I'm looking at you Nick at Nite* I miss it terribly. It's amazing how well this has aged.
Bagheera23608 3 years ago 3
Good Night Dick .R.I.P.
lotipac01 3 years ago 4
Good night Dick. Make God laugh.
da40flyer 3 years ago 4
R.I.P. Dick Martin.
Goodnight Dick.
Alanmania65 3 years ago 3
Does anyone have any clips from the short-lived revival in 1977 (the one that gave the world its first taste of Robin Williams)?
babymoondancer 3 years ago
There's totally a nipple at 1:39
corinthian129 3 years ago
Yep, a pointy one too. How did that miss the censors? :eek:
CleanSanchez 3 years ago 2
laugh in got away with tons
brabon 3 years ago
This show (along with the Smothers Brothers) was the fault line between the past and the future. Folks, mainstream TV didn't do this before Laugh-In.
tommyrock69 3 years ago 2
Laugh-In owed a lot of its style to the experimental and surrealistic comedy that Ernie Kovacs had done a few years earlier. Kovacs was one of the first entertainers to realize that TV wasn't live theater, movies or radio-with-pictures -- it was its own "thing," with its own unique possibilities. "Laugh-In," with its machine-gun pace and topical humor, suddenly made the traditional 1-hour variety-show format look old-fashioned (although variety shows didn't completely die until about 1980).
scotpens 3 years ago
This show was and still is so hilariaous. Saturday Night Live on their best day was never as good as Laugh In
Motown65 3 years ago 3
First saw this in Ireland back in the mid-eighties when Channel 4 showed it. Anyone else over this side of the pond remember this? Love The Farkles, telephone operator and the trike man!
rigel5 3 years ago
This was shown on Friday nights on RTE back in the late sixties.
These clips bring back fond memories. I loved
Goldie Hawn and Ruth Buzzi especially. Great show.
attilius7 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
when i was a kid this was hillarious,now its just dated.
charliedontsurf70 3 years ago
You can see where the writers of Austin Powers got their slapstick style.
ffairlane57 3 years ago
Where's the guy on the tricycle?
ColKorn1965 3 years ago
LOL oh man, thats the guy in wedding crashers!!
rawkstarr89 4 years ago
say goodnight,Dick.
tomloft2000 4 years ago
This sure brings back memories!
Claycat4 4 years ago 3
:-)
trent5374 4 years ago
If it wasn't for "Laugh-In" there would not be "Saturday Night Live."
ebf1957 4 years ago 6
I heard that Barry Took from England was one of the scriptwriters. What a team they put together.
philomorphologian 4 years ago
Laugh In serves in today's world as a true tv classic.
Jantv81 4 years ago 5
Henry Gibson was a riot. He almost played it like some sort of savant.
gazbo1986 4 years ago
Remember H.G. playing the Illinois nazi party leader in "The Blues Brothers"?
Urbicide 2 years ago 4
No, I get the joke. I was just concurring that it was the case.
PokerJoker811 4 years ago
You had to be there Poker Joker. It looks stale now, but it was fresh then.
ipmoic 4 years ago
Famous the world over for its fruits and nuts is right.
PokerJoker811 4 years ago 2
Now this material (and its delivery by a terrific cast) sure beats the pants off the junk on tv these days!! Rowan and Martin really entertained and there was always bound to be a laugh or a smile along the way. Great tv back then. Thanks for posting!
erzbet07 4 years ago 8
lol "Simon and Gar-Farkle" "Hiiii" that never gets old. =)
SLCPunker101 4 years ago 3
Priceless.
PAB66666 4 years ago 2