The hour-long show featured segments that would influence radio and, much later, television ; news satires such as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-Ins " Laugh-In Looks at the News " and Saturday Night Live's " Weekend Update " were influenced by Town Hall Tonight's " The News Reel ", later renamed " Town Hall News " ( and in 1939 – 40, as a sop to his sponsor, " Ipana News ").

A spoof of Eric Sevareid named " Eric Clarified " appeared in the " Laugh-In Looks at the News " skits of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In which ran from 1968 – 1974.

( a lesser-known set of reference books whose phonetically funny name helped both Laugh-In and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson to poke fun at NBC censors )

Blonde actresses have contributed to this perception ; some of them include Marilyn Monroe, Judy Holliday, Jayne Mansfield, and Goldie Hawn during her time at Laugh-In.

Starr appeared in an episode of Laugh-In, recalling the films he and Lloyd were in together, while Lloyd looked at him as a stranger, saying " Sorry, you can't expect me to remember everybody.

Lohman stayed at KFI and teamed for a while with Gary Owens, a Los Angeles personality best known as the wisecracking announcer on the Laugh-In television show.

He also co-wrote and co-starred ( with Simon Hardeman ) in the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe shows On The Toilet With Shergar ( An Evening of Horseplay and Lavatory Humour ) in 1992, Simon and Spikes Laugh-In in 1993 and the critically acclaimed play looking at comedy Death Of A Comedian in 1994.

Buzzi was a presenter at the 2009 Emmy Awards along with several members of her debut series, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, presenting the Emmy trophy to Jon Stewart for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Then, one day, while catering a party at Roddy McDowall's house, George Schlatter from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, offered Jiminy a pilot episode deal for a daytime talk show that Jiminy accepted and started at the Beverly Garland ' Motel ' ( as opposed to the Beverly-Garland Hotel ).

Many blond actresses have played stereotypical " dumb blondes ", including Judy Holliday, Jayne Mansfield and Goldie Hawn, best known as the giggling " dumb blonde ", stumbling over her lines, especially when she introduced Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In " News of the Future ".

The phrase " What you see is what you get ", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona " Geraldine " ( from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the late 1960s and then on The Flip Wilson Show until 1974 ).

According to George Schlatter, the show's creator, " Humphrey later said that not doing it may have cost him the election ", and " said the rest of his life that appearing on Laugh-In is what got him elected.

Johnson is best known for his work on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, an American television series ( 1967 – 1973 ), on which he played various characters including " Wolfgang ", a smoking World War II German soldier scouting the show from behind a bush ( still fighting the war ) invariably commenting on the preceding sketch with the catchphrase " Very interesting ..." followed by either a comic observation or misinterpretation, or simply " but stupid!

The Judge name came from a comedy routine, " Here Come de Judge ", used repeatedly on the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In TV show.

Unlike Laugh-In the show " focused almost exclusively on sex as a comedic subject ", using various rapid-fire jokes and risqué skits but no laugh track.

He compared the show negatively to the comedy of Dean Martin, Laugh-In, and the Smothers Brothers, which the executive described as " absolutely beyond belief ... awfully blue ", but were popular and less controversial because unlike Turn-On, " they're funny ".

The montage concludes with John Wayne as a guest on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In saying " You bet your sweet bippy ", a catch phrase of the show.

" In the final line of the song the singer reveals herself as Mrs. Johnson's daughter, with the memorable line: " The day my mama socked it to the Harper Valley PTA ", referring to the popular phrase of that period " sock it to me " from the sketch comedy TV series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

( This was a parody of the way " Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In " and Johnny Carson would jokingly refer to " Beautiful Downtown Burbank.

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In is an American sketch comedy television program that ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968, to May 14, 1973 on the NBC network.

More than 300 videotaped network series and specials used this method over a 12-year period, including the fast-paced Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

Conway was part of one of the most infamous network TV flops ever: Turn-On, a countercultural sketch comedy show on ABC derided as a ripoff of NBC's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In ( ironically created and directed by Laugh-In's creator George Schlatter ).

After he learned to play the banjo, Strunk began entertaining locals and went on to wide recognition after appearances on national television network shows such as Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

In the United States, the NBC network adapted this program and also produced its own content, from the " news " segment of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, to the still-running Saturday Night Live mock newscast segment " Weekend Update ".

The show was inspired by Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the major difference being that Hee Haw was far less topical, and was centered on country music and rural Southern culture.

Like Laugh-In, the show minimized production costs by taping all of the recurring sketches for a season in batches — setting up for the Cornfield one day, the Joke Fence another, etc.

Although the series still did well in the ratings ( despite the popularity of ABC's horror-themed soap opera Dark Shadows ), it was canceled in 1969 along with other games in a major daytime programming overhaul, being replaced by Letters to Laugh-In which, although a spin-off of the popular prime time series Laugh-In, ended in just three months on December 26.

Such iconic and diverse shows as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Saturday Night Live, The Uncle Floyd Show, Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street, The Electric Company, and TV hosts such as David Letterman and Craig Ferguson have been influenced by Kovacs.

The character was featured in 1970s cartoons by underground cartoonists Dave Sheridan and Fred Schrier, appearing in person in the early 1970s on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and later in the 1975 Smothers Brothers TV show.

" He eventually would close each show by talking to Lucille Ball as well as the cast of Gunsmoke — both airing opposite Laugh-In on CBS ; as well as whatever was on ABC.

The show features musical numbers such as the # 1 hit song of 1969 " Sugar, Sugar " performed by the gang, and variety skits modeled after Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

Markham's most famous routine was " discovered " by the general public only after Sammy Davis, Jr. had performed it as a guest on Laugh-In.

In 1967, her stint on Griffin's show led to her discovery by George Schlatter, who soon cast her in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

Buzzi was inducted in 2002 into the Television Hall of Fame ( presented by the National Broadcasters Association, which bestowed the honor to Buzzi as well as the producers, director and cast of the top rated television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ).

The show was created by Ed Friendly and George Schlatter, the producers of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

In 1968 the band performed " You've Got The Right String But The Wrong Yo Yo " on the TV series Laugh-In, with appearances by the park-bench oldtimers duo played by Ruth Buzzi and Arte Johnson.

In 1970, Siegel was hired by producer George Schlatter to write for Laugh-In.

When Strunk performed this song on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ( seated on a stool and accompanying himself on banjo ), a bizarre decision was made to film his performance on a set resembling a lunar landscape, apparently to remind the audience that this song had been played on the moon.

* Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In did a skit where Dan Rowan changes army uniforms from World War II, Korea, and then Vietnam as the song plays in the background.

He had hit comedy recordings in the 1960s on Chess Records, and saw his routine's entry line become a catchphrase on the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In television show, as did his phrase " Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls ".

It has also been referenced in other television shows including Get Smart, Angry Beavers, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and Laugh-In.

Youngman made numerous appearances on television, including a long-running stint on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

From the 1960s to 1970s, Reilly also appeared as a regular on The Dean Martin Show, and had multiple guest appearances on television series including McMillan & Wife ; Here's Lucy ; Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ; The Love Boat ; and Love, American Style.

Gardner also brought aboard several keen writing talents, including theatric humorist Abe Burrows ( the show's co-creator and head writer for its first five years ), future M * A * S * H writer Larry Gelbart and Dick Martin, who later was the co-host of television's groundbreaking Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

Storch appeared on many variety shows including Sonny and Cher, Laugh-In, Hollywood Squares, Playboy After Dark, The Hollywood Palace, and Toast of the Town, with several appearances on the Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson, and Steve Allen shows.

In 1970, she left Laugh-In to pursue other projects and has made guest appearances on several TV shows, including Hot Dog, Love, American Style, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Andy Williams Show, and different game shows such as Hollywood Squares.

Ruth Buzzi was the only featured player to appear in every episode of Laugh-In including the initial pilot for the show and the Laugh-In television special.