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...forum sure did. Bob Dole has wanted to be President almost forever--this will be his third try--and an announcement was expected soon. But not last Friday night, and certainly not on David Letterman's Late Show. But why not? Richard Nixon said ``Sock it to me'' on Laugh-In in 1968, and later appraised his cameo as ``a stroke that helped people see I wasn't just that Tricky Dick, meanspirited son-of-a-bitch.'' So Dole took a page from the Nixon playbook, and for the same reason. If he feared that he's seen as stiff...
BOSTON--A second-year student at the Harvard School of Public Health came up a few laughs short Wednesday night in the finals of the inaugural Beanpot Laugh-In Championship...
...class,/ Ain't got no mother,/ Ain't got no father,/ Ain't got no culture." The generation that let down its Hair in 1968 and sang those lyrics gave birth to forms that still shape popular music, literature, film and television. Laugh-In begot Saturday Night Live. Julia paved the way for The Cosby Show. 2001: A Space Odyssey has metamorphosed into Star Wars. Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix spawned Heavy Metal. Big Bird wanders down Sesame Street, still a hippie innocent, a naive, ever hopeful thing with feathers...
Rowan and Martin's TV Laugh-In domesticated chaos into snippets. It flashed absurdities, like vaudeville on amphetamines -- Goldie Hawn dancing in body paint, Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips. Laugh-In gave the nation "You bet your sweet bippy!" and "Sock it to me," a line that Republican Candidate Richard Nixon, among other celebrities, recited in three seconds of network time in September. (In deference to his dignity, Nixon was spared the customary dousing with a bucket of water.) The Rolling Stones snarled about the Street Fighting Man. Never before had an annus mirabilis transpired before the television cameras...
...ABBIE HOFFMAN, cofounder of the Youth International Party, is an environmental activist, antidrug advocate and a fixture on the college lecture circuit. -- JAMES LOVELL JR., Apollo 8 astronaut, is executive vice president of Centel Corp., a Chicago telecommunications and electric utilities firm. -- DICK MARTIN, cohost of Laugh-In, is now a television director. His credits include episodes of Newhart and Sledge Hammer. -- EUGENE McCARTHY, antiwar presidential candidate, retired from the U.S. Senate in 1970. He won 30,074 votes in 1988 as presidential candidate of the Pennsylvania-based Consumer Party. -- HUEY P. NEWTON, cofounder of the Black Panthers served three...