The original rapid fire sketch comedy show.The original rapid fire sketch comedy show.The original rapid fire sketch comedy show.
- Won 7 Primetime Emmys
- 11 wins & 34 nominations total
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- TriviaIt was Producer George Schlatter's wife Jolene Brand who, after listening to Aretha Franklin's "Respect", thought that "Sock It To Me" would be a good bit for the show.
- Crazy creditsThe early episodes' closing credits happen while the cast tells jokes from the joke wall.
- Alternate versionsMany of the original one-hour shows were re-edited into two half-hour programs in the early 1980s for syndication. Often, bloopers and outtakes were used to fill out a segment, especially during the joke wall sequence which occurred at the end of each show during the closing credits. New graphics were generated for credits on re-edited endings and run in the same sequence as the originals, but were in a different font. In a few instances, there was some overdubbing, specifically where Judy Carne's "NBC, beautiful downtown Burbank" was overdubbed with, "'ello, 'ello, beautiful downtown Burbank" when she played a switchboard operator on some of the earlier shows.
- ConnectionsEdited into Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in: 25th Anniversary Reunion (1993)
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A Load of Laughs!
Look it up in your Funk & Wagnalls. You'll find it under the word "funny."
Laugh-In was quite a novelty when it first aired, presenting audiences with a fast-paced, unstructured variety show featuring lots of sight gags, punch lines, and other wacky stuff, all pieced together into a frenetic mesh of comedy. This format has, of course, been done many times (Saturday Night Live, Monty Python, and even The Muppet Show and Sesame Street) but Laugh-In was definitely a forerunner.
The hosts, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, were as great a pair as Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello, and the show featured many unknown comedians who have since become famous, such as Lily Tomlin, Goldie Hawn, and Arte Johnson.
Although parts of the show have a definite 60's/70's taste to them, the humor remains timeless for those who enjoy wacky, off-the-wall comedy.
All in all, it is verrrry interesting! And verrrry funny!
Laugh-In was quite a novelty when it first aired, presenting audiences with a fast-paced, unstructured variety show featuring lots of sight gags, punch lines, and other wacky stuff, all pieced together into a frenetic mesh of comedy. This format has, of course, been done many times (Saturday Night Live, Monty Python, and even The Muppet Show and Sesame Street) but Laugh-In was definitely a forerunner.
The hosts, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, were as great a pair as Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello, and the show featured many unknown comedians who have since become famous, such as Lily Tomlin, Goldie Hawn, and Arte Johnson.
Although parts of the show have a definite 60's/70's taste to them, the humor remains timeless for those who enjoy wacky, off-the-wall comedy.
All in all, it is verrrry interesting! And verrrry funny!
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- Nov 25, 2003
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