Showing posts with label Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 25, 2019
A Little Humor: A Crying Man On A Park Bench
An elderly man of ninety was sitting on a park bench crying.
A woman of seventy saw him and sat down beside him on the bench.
She asked him why he was crying.
“Well,” said the old man, “I got married to a beautiful twenty-five-year-old woman last month. Every morning I wake up and we make love for an hour and then she makes me a wonderful breakfast. In the afternoon she makes me a wonderful lunch, and we again make love for an hour.
At this point the old man buried his face in his handkerchief and cried.
“Don’t cry, don’t cry, “the woman said, trying to comfort him.
“And at night,” the old man continued, “After a wonderful dinner, we spend most of the night making love.”
“You shouldn’t be crying!” the woman said. “You should be the happiest man in the world!”
“I know!” said the old man, “I’m crying because I don’t remember where I live!”
Note: The above photo is of Ruth Buzzi and Arte Johnson from the TV series Laugh-In.
Their best bit was when Artie Johnson asked Ruth Buzzi if she believed in the hereafter.
“Yes,” she replied.
“Then you know what I’m here after.”
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Sock It To Me: 'Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In: The Complete Series' Released By Time/Life
I was a huge fan of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
when I was a teenager in the 1960’s.
The TV show’s fast-paced skits,
scatter-shot jokes, political and social satire and catch phrases, such as “sock it to me,” with a crack cast of comics and often featuring prominent
people of the era, made me and millions of others laugh each week. I still catch an episode every now and again on the Decades TV channel.
Who can forget a supposedly humorless
President Nixon appearing on the show and asking, straight-faced, “Sock it to
me?”
Cinemaretro.com offers a
piece on the release of a DVD on the 50th anniversary of the comedy show.
Before there was “Saturday
Night Live” there was “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.”*
Hosted by Dan Rowan and Dick
Martin (seen in the above photo), this groundbreaking variety show was a fast-moving barrage of jokes,
one-liners, running skits, and musical numbers.
A group of regulars--Goldie
Hawn, Lily Tomlin, Jo Anne Worley, Ruth Buzzi, Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson, Judy
Carne, Alan Sues, Chelsea Brown, and
Gary Owens--plus frequent guests like Barbara Feldon, Flip Wilson and Don
Rickles left a lasting impression on America.
To celebrate Laugh-In’s 50th
Anniversary, the Complete Series is now available for the first time ever on
DVD.
You can read the rest of the
piece and watch a video clip of the fast-paced jokes offered on Laugh-In via
the below link:
Note: You can also watch a video
advertisement for the DVD with a good number of skits and jokes via the below link:
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