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TV Series

Series Name:    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (Laugh-In) Format: TV Series IMDB: IMDB Page Years: 1968 - 1977 Country:   USA Language: English Genre: Comedy Rating: 7.3  Rate Collection:   Seen It     Wishlist  Community:  19 Have Seen » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

Selected Cast	Dan Rowan as host
	Dick Martin as host
	Gary Owens as announcer
	Ruth Buzzi
	Eileen Brennan
	Judy Carne
	Goldie Hawn
	Henry Gibson
	Larry Hovis
	Artie Johnson
	Jo Anne Worley
	Alan Sues
	Charlie Brill
	Roddy Maude-Roxby
	Dave Madden
	Lily Tomlin
	Teresa Graves
	Richard Dawson
	Robin Williams as regular (1977 specials)
	Moosie Drier

Notes

Preceded by a special that aired in 1967. During its run a spin-off series Letters to Laugh-In aired briefly, and the motion picture The Maltese Bippy is considered a spin-off as well. In 1977, several specials titled Laugh-In aired, featuring Robin Williams as a cast member; the specials did not involve Rowan and Martin. When Williams' series Mork & Mindy became a hit the specials were rebroadcast in 1979 as a limited series.

The series is comparable only to Saturday Night Live in regards to the percentage of its regular cast, most of whom where unknowns at the time, who went on enduring film and TV stardom.

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD Box Set

Rowan And Martin's Laugh In - The Complete Series - Time-Life - USA (2017)

Comments and Reviews

zabadak 17th Jul 2015		Very interesting, but stupid! :eek:
Record Collector 17th Jul 2015		Gary Owens who voiced roger ramjet
23skidoo 17th Jul 2015		@RC Its appeal today is as a time capsule. For example, for better or for worse, it's actually credited with helping Richard Nixon win the presidency because he was "cool enough" to come on the show while a candidate and do a quick 10 second joke (he just turned to the camera and said "Sock it to ME?") while Hubert Humphrey, his competitor, refused. You also had many stars of the day coming on and having fun, and the show also made some biting political commentary. There was one episode where a black actress flirted with James Garner ending in a "your place or mine" reference as they walk away, after which one of the regular actors turned to the camera and said "Very funny. But right now the station in Birmingham is showing a test pattern. Believe it." Laugh-In was able to get away with jokes that cost the Smothers Brothers their show a year or so earlier, I think because the format obscured them enough from the censors. Turn-On, a series that was commissioned as pretty much a rip-off of Laugh-In, tried the same thing but failed and its jokes were one reason why it was cancelled after one single episode (interestingly Teresa Graves, who was hired as a regular for Turn-On, later became a regular on Laugh-in). In many respects it was like Monty Python in a way. Lots of humor in that show is dated too, but it remains a fascinating and valuable time capsule of how British culture was in the early 1970s. Such was the case with Laugh-In.
Record Collector 17th Jul 2015		I remember seeing laugh in around 1987 but the gags were dated by then
Neil Forbes 17th Jul 2015		I remember taping several episodes of this, condensed into half-hour versions(originally broadcast in a 1-hour format when first aired here in Australia BC[er, that's "Before Colour"]). NBN in Newcastle was running it in the 1980s and/or 1990s at about 10.00 AM. Allowing for the jokes relating to the late 1960s I thought the show still managed to pack a comical punch. There was a revived version with a pathetically fake ventriloquist, Waylon Flowers and his puppet, "Madam". The revived version was shown here but didn't last long(whew, what a relief).
Monolith 16th Jul 2015		I had great memories of this when I was a kid, the best laugh ever. Then I saw it a couple of years ago, oh dear, I should've left well alone. It was painful.
23skidoo 16th Jul 2015		I couldn't find an acceptable title screen from 1968-69. This one is from around 70-71. I bent the rules slightly; Robin Williams wasn't involved in the original series and the specials that followed in 77 weren't a series (though they later were rebroadcast as one), but given his notoriety I think we can get away with sneaking in a credit for him here.

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