Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mountain of material was no laugh-in for Associate Editor Ray Kennedy, who wrote the cover story, or for Researcher Pat Gordon, or for Senior Editor Jesse Birnbaum. "By the time we worked our way through 6,600 gags," says Kennedy, "we were all punch-line drunk...
...Laugh-In was last season's biggest TV hit, and is already a solid Nielsen winner so far this year. But that alone would hardly be enough to draw such a motley assortment of celebrities to the show for $210 per appearance. What appeals is the program's extraordinary ambiance: it has an artful spontaneity, a kind of controlled insanity, emerging from a cascade of crazy cartoon ideas. In yet another TV season of pale copies, Laugh-In is unique. It features no swiveling chorus lines, no tuxedoed crooners. Just those quick flashes of visual and verbal comedy...
What bugs Rowan and Martin is how long they will be able to sustain the breakneck pace of Laugh-In. At times, the novelty of the show threatens to wear thin. Some of the jokes are too inside; some of this season's new bits, such as the recitation of old, out-of-context punch lines and the "Fun Couple" sketches, fail to work. Says Rowan: "When you take on a show that doesn't fill time, that doesn't come on with singers and dancers as a copout, that is nothing but comedy material-the well...
...phrase first used by a Negro vaudeville veteran, Dewey ("Pigmeat") Markham, to introduce a series of blackouts (Judge: "Have you ever been up before me?" Defendant: "I don't know-what time do you get up?"). Pig-meat himself is now on Laugh...
...short, along with genuine wit, much of the humor is terrible/funny or just terrible/terrible. A lot of the material would have seemed dated in New Jersey burlesque during Prohibition. Can they really mean it-using this sort of stuff on TV in 1968? Laugh-In's producers know bad jokes when they use them. There is an element of camp and reverse sophistication in this, reminiscent of making a cult of Charlie Chan movies and Captain Marvel comic books. Besides, the outrageous jokes are thrown into the machinery of the show to create contrast and surprise, and to give...