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...have done it! I have never laughed so long and so hard as I did at your coverage of the Rowan and Martin Laugh-In [Oct. 11]. And I've never seen the program. If the program is half as funny as the article describing it, it must really be the wildest thing on the telly today...
...need more articles in your magazine like this one. TIME could turn into the funniest thing since . . . well, since Rowan and Martin...
SOUL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The producers of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, George Schlatter and Ed Friendly, have more irreverence and irrelevance in store in this all-black musical variety special; stars include Lou Rawls, George Kirby and Nipsey Russell...
...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...
...camera, Laugh-In is an extension of the purposeful chaos seen on screen. On any single day, ten or more shows are churning towards completion. The process begins with a "concept meeting," attended by Rowan and Martin, Schlatter, some of the show's 14 writers and key production personnel. The group may decide to do a satire on the machine age (aired last week) or the fourth estate (the concept this week). The writers are then led back to their cages. Later, the various elements-a silly dance, a special skit, cameo spots-are entered into the growing script...