Good night Dick.

Brilliantly irreverent show.

Speaking of "Frankly My Dear", Dan Rowan smoking a pipe during the intro to a variety show is another example of the sort of thing you won't see today.

One of the few bright spots in the twisted 60s

Great childhood memories.

During a show long ago, Rowan issued some bit of
irrelevance in his opening remarks. Martin responded saying he would note that in his "Book of little known facts" It is a line I still use occasionally in friendly company ;-)

The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate ... You bet your sweet bippy ... veeery interesting....

Man I'm getting old.

Was one of those "sock it to me" girls Agent 99?
I wanted to marry her when I was seven.

rg: I believe the "sock it to me" girl was Joanne Whorley (sp?) whereas agent 99 was Barbara Feldon(sp?). Like you, I had a boyhood crush on agent 99. She was gorgeous.
Ditto the fond childhood memories of "Laugh In", and as Howie has said: "Good night Dick".

Judy Carne was the english "sock it to me" girl.

thanks for the h/t Kate.

Say goodnight Dick. You helped make us laugh without a single f#^%n$m8%*). For that we thank you.
RIP

Thanks for all you did Dick - I enjoyed your comedy. See ya soon!!

Alright......did anyone send their roaches to Goldie??

Goldie used to be cute before she became all pretentious, eh? ~:D

Ah, when the world was sane, really. Good Night Dick. We will never forget.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. ~Max Eastman

He will be missed. Comedy makes life endurable. In a way people like him are doctors of the soul.

dan rowan spent his last days playing that game where you slide the pieces back and forth on board with pointy triangle markings. baccarat? is that what its called?

thrilling way to spend retirement eh?

dick martin married a playboy bunny by the name of dolly something-or-other. a bunny named dolly. bet she had kapok for brains eh?

judy carne got busted on drug charges when she tried to do a promotional tour for a book.

etc etc.

When did these guys get so young? I only remember them, back then, being old, and big and funny.

I never saw this in the UK. I've just done a 2 hour New Canadian Trainee Course (NCTC) on the show. Jeez, I'v always loved Goldie Horne and who's that black chick? Tasty.

Hey, on SDA, I am allowed to print my thoughts!!

Texas Canuck @ 2:58

Yes, it almost passed us all by. There was no effing expletives back then; and they were funny. Not like effing now, where it's all political effing angst and no joi de vivre.

DrD: No, I just checked. That was Barbara Feldon -- right after Goldie Hawn smacks herself in the head with a gag hammer. Her dress falls off (which, I understand happened frequently in the 60s), THEN Jo Anne Worley. I'd know my ex-fiancee anywhere.

Oh God. I've turned into a trivia creep.

Goldie Horne. HaHaHa. Oh, that makes me laugh. That sounds like a heckofa funny show.

I have a question for Martin, too bad he's dead and now I can't ask him. He said his life was divided into three parts; nightclubs, television, directing. Looking back at it, he had the most fun in nightclubs. This puzzles me. Why did he consider the world of nightclubs to be closed off. Wouldn't you realize that while directing and opt to return?

I'm not really familiar with Laugh In, but the clips I've seen crack me up. Here they even allow Nixon humanity. I saw clips with Sammy Davis Jr on YouTube that are hilarious, "Here come da judge, here come da judge." The bit with Ruth Buzzi is a hoot. The whole thing is sort of Benny Hill except even funnier.

Comparing the Laugh-in to today’s comedy just does not work.
Laugh-in used some serious brain power and relevance to do comedy.
Today, they try to get a laugh out of you by profanity, for some non-understandable reason they think they are being funny. If they can’t get a laugh out of you, they try to shame you into it.
Of course there are well known exceptions that are superior to the loudmouth riffraff.
Then you have George Carlin that can do it without profanity, though sometimes he can’t help himself.
However, the Laugh-in was one funny and intelligent show.

Oldtimer,the games sounds like backgammon. Yes Laugh-In sure beats the potty humor we have today.

I remember the whole family gathered around the set to watch Laugh-In. Everyone enjoyed, even if we kids didn't get all the jokes. And, as others have noted, my parents didn't feel the need to censor anything.

My all time favourite character was Ernestine the telephone operator (Lily Tomlin). "One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingys..A gracious good morning to you; have I reached the party to whom I am speaking?". Broke me up every time.

We'll miss you, Dick!

hard to believe it was so long ago. in the scheme of things, eons.

bour3, "Here comes the judge" was a signature line of Flip Wilson (you seem to be saying it was Sammy Davis, Jr.) and he is the black guy in the clip Kate posted.

As with others, I watched as a child - presumably with my parents - and I doubt I got half the jokes as a 10-year old, but I still thought it was hilarious.

I want to come back as a bird and dump right on those enviromentalists