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Himself - Host
(141 episodes, 1967-1973)
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| Dick Martin | ... |
Himself - Host
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| Gary Owens | ... |
Announcer
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(140 episodes, 1968-1973)
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| Alan Sues | ... |
Regular Performer
(102 episodes, 1968-1972)
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| Arte Johnson | ... |
Himself
(93 episodes, 1967-1971)
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| Lily Tomlin | ... |
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| Richard Dawson | ... |
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(74 episodes, 1968-1973)
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| Jo Anne Worley | ... |
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(70 episodes, 1967-1973)
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| Goldie Hawn | ... |
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This show popularized a rapid style of vignette comedy show where comedy sketches, punch-lines and gags are edited together in a rapid and almost random format. Regular trademark elements included the joke wall, the dancing woman tattooed with one-liners and the fickle finger of fate award. This series would inspire such shows as Monty Python's Flying Circus and Sesame Street. Written by &view=simple&sort=alpha">Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
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9 September 1967 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In See more »Company Credits
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The "Cocktail Party" segment often featured uncredited appearances by Playboy centerfold models including Janice Pennington (May 1971), whose appearance was part of her centerfold photoshoot. The models usually appeared as dancers or the objects of Dick Martin's clichéd propositions. Martin married, divorced then remarried playmate Dolly Read (May 1966). See more »Quotes
Judy Carne: [as a switchboard operator answering the phone] NBC, beautiful downtown Burbank.See more »
The first three seasons of this show encapsulated the sheer energy of social and sexual revolution of the late 1960's.On the surface it was patchy,often very funny,satirical and not afraid to poke fun at the US involvement in the Vietnam war and the Nixon administration.It launched the careers of many of todays Film and Tv stars and inspired many a generation with it's trademark "Sock it to me", "Fickle Finger of Fate" and those epilepsy-instigating Party Sequences each episode. True, as with all shows of their time, a lot of the references and humour may have dated badly, but for a Pre-PC generation, it was naughty and not what your parents would want you to watch.Perfect. Many contemporary reviewers dismiss the show as vulgar and irrelevant, but for people who actually watched it at the time, it was breaking the formula of the TV variety show.It was the epitome of groovy and psychadelia for Network TV-very fast, energetic, colorful and loud which really hadn't been seen before. By 1970,most of the original cast had gone and the show started to look back on itself and died. It lasted another 3 years, but it could never recapture the excitement of the first three years.I think this holds true for society in general.Maybe today's politically correct generation really cannot appreciate the enjoyment gained by watching Laugh In for the first time.