Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feet before she has a chance to sweep the floor. Hosting a new 90-minute daily talk show called This Morn ing on ABC, he has plunged into that grey Sargasso Sea of morning game shows and reruns, and already he's making steady, perceptible waves of laugh ter. There is something vaguely immoral about one-liners at 10:30 a.m., but Cavett has no respect. Amid all the yak, yak, yak on daytime TV, he has snuck in a genuine yuk. And mean while the breakfast dishes are stacking up in the sink like poker chips...
Country Joe and the Fish try to laugh at the horror of the War and of the ugliness of death. They have their own kind of humor--at the same time satirical and sick. "If you get people to laugh at themselves, something happens," Joe said...
...called Laugh-In, and the hosts are a pair of 40-year-old manics in monkey suits named Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. They devised the idea for the show last year, but its viability wasn't certain until it was given the sure kiss of success: all the Hollywood hotshots said it couldn't be done. A full hour of nothing but comedy? No dancers? No guest crooners? No lavish production numbers? Impossible. So, when the show debuted six weeks ago during the deep doldrums of TV's midseason, it came on like a fanfare...
Bang Bang. What makes Laugh-In laughable is not so much the material as the freewheeling, pell-mell pace at which it is dished out. One-liners fly like ack-ack, and if there are more than a few duds it is hard to tell in the thick of the barrage. Everybody wings it, and in that spirit the show's resident cast of bright young kooks often make the lines seem funnier than they really are. "If one gag goes completely over your head," says Martin, "there'll be another along in a few seconds that...
Good News. The show's producers like to say that the format follows an old trusted formula-something old and new, borrowed and blue. But Laugh-In has something far better than formula jokes: topical satire that is biting without being bitter...