am watching epis of rowan and martins laugh in. i was still in high school when this came oug.

[AllaN01Bear]

18 or 19 yo. now i am really aging myself. looking at ghosts .

[Lochloosa]

1. Looked forward to it every week.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Youngstown Ohio's claim to fame

Laugh-In gives Youngstown Ohio the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate award because voters deny schools enough operating money to stay open.

https://m.

[captain queeg]

3. I think I was in grade school when it first came out

Now that I think about it I’m surprised we got to watch it. I guess it was after the daily news shows that my dad always watched and probably wasn't competing with whatever he used to like in the evening. Also early enough it was before “lights out” and bed time. For instance we’d have to sneak down after he was in bed to watch mission impossible or Hawaii 5-0. My mom worked nights.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Always waiting for Ruth Buzzi to look...

hotter than Goldie Hawn.

(She was, you know...)

[doc03]

5. Richard Nixon saying "Sock it to me"

[AllaN01Bear]

10. wish somone would do that to trump.

[2naSalit]

6. We always watched it!

Last year a friend, who is 25 years younger, was visiting and we were hanging around and talking about some current outrage worthy of a good laugh and somehow I thought of Laugh-in and how outrageous some of their gags were... but also new.

So we googled up the original pilot as I explained how some of the stuff that they were doing was the origin of things we see today in comedy. We laughed all the way through. And we watched a Flip Wilson Show episode too. It was very educating for my friend and great blast to the past for me.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. they had to do it that was becase tv at the time was cencured and they had to get the gags past them.

[2naSalit]

12. I remember...

Especially what happened to the Smothers Brothers, who are still awesome.

[Walleye]

7. Me too, you bet your bippy

[Xavier Breath]

8. When I was a kid I had a Viewmaster

and one of the sets I had was Laugh-In. It was still photos from the show, but it (of course) made the photos in 3D. Any time someone was over at the house my parents would ask me to get it so the visiting grown-ups could see the cast in 3D.

[mike_c]

9. gawd it sucked

If not for the laugh track it would have dropped with a thud. It is painful to watch, now. I mean, what's so funny about three second cuts of someone repeating "sock it to me" and "here come de judge" every freaking week? Oh sweet jebus, the hip fashions!