joanh@mhuxh.UUCP (10/19/83)
Has anyone tuned into the re-runs of Laughin? If so I would like to know. It brought back a lot of memories from the early 70's. Some of the jokes are still funny and can still hold their own today. "Sock It To Me, Sock It To Me, Sock It To Me... Say Good Night Dick".....
leichter@yale-com.UUCP (Jerry Leichter) (10/20/83)
I watch it 'most every evening (7:00 on WOR, channel 9 in NY). I still find it very funny. Some notes: The original Laugh-in was an hour long; the re-runs are being cut to half that. The distributers say they are cutting out stuff that was "topi- cal" at the time & not any longer. Well...it's no likely you can find EXACTLY half an hour of such stuff in every show. Some of the shows don't seem to be hurt at all by this process - Laugh-in was hardly big on continuity anyway - while others leave you feeling something is missing. This is especially the case when they do things like cut the joke wall to 3 or 4 jokes - that's often the funniest part of the show! The shows are being aired in a random order. Watch for a couple of days and you'll see Dan Rowen's mustache (sp?) appear and disappear... Which brings up the question: "Where are they all now?" Goldie Hawn went on to movie acting, of course; after seeing her as a good actress in serious roles, it's interesting to see the old "air-head" routine again - now knowing that it is TOTALLY an act. But I don't recall seeing any of the other regulars in years. Some of them are GOOD! - watch Artie Johnson at work, for example. -- Jerry decvax!yale-comix!leichter leichter@yale Oh - and for you "youngsters" - if you want to see what mini- and micro-skirts were like...well, Laugh-in is a bit of nostalgia that way, too. -- Jerry
jeff@dciem.UUCP (Jeff Richardson) (10/27/83)
During the early years of the Toronto Blue Jays (1977 or 1978),
Arte Johnson used to appear on the telecasts in short segments between innings
explaining a different aspect of baseball each time, in a language
that used a combination of German or Swedish words plus English
words that were mispronounced or changed a little to sound German
or Swedish. It was really funny and I was disappointed when they
stopped showing it, but I guess there are only so many details of
baseball that you can explain.
Jeff Richardson
DCIEM, Toronto