Word: rowan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rowan: "Gee, Sandy, you sure get to the root of the problem...
Often, Laugh-In has its own esoteric battles with the censor. "We're not trying to get a lot of dirty stuff on the air," explains Rowan. "About 90% of the stuff that's cut out of the script for being too blue, we take out ourselves. But our writers are normal, healthy guys, and they've got to have the freedom to throw anything into the pot. And then we discuss it." And discuss and rediscuss...
...most topical digs are reserved for a cocktail-party sequence, featuring Laugh-In's regular cast of kooks, and a segment with hoked-up newscasts. On last week's show, for example, Rowan reported this bulletin of the future: "Vatican, 1988. The church today finally approved the use of the Pill. The announcement was made by Pope Le Roy . . . Junior. His father was not available for comment. His mother, the former Sister Mary Catherine reached at Gluck's Hillside in the Catskills, would only say, 'We like to think of the Pill as St. Joseph Aspirin...
Stinging as some of the lines may be, the delivery is so whimsical, the targets so varied, that it is hard to be outraged by Laugh-In. Rowan and Martin take pains, in fact, to mask their personal views. The Smothers Brothers, on the other hand, tend...
...opposing time slot, never knew what hit them. Within twelve weeks, Laugh-In leaped from 48th to fourth place in the ratings and tripped off with four Emmys as the most successful program of the season. What brought that success was not only the partnership of Schlatter, Friendly, Rowan and Martin, but the group of bright, young, remarkably versatile comics who people the show. Among the regulars...