Laugh-In 1977

[quote]Was everyone in the 70s on drugs?

Yes.

Pretty much - and they were the GOOD kind!

pretty much. it made children's programming better too

Robin Williams...was he ever 'off'?

Robin Williams never made me laugh. Bea Arthur, on the other hand, could make me laugh with just a look.

[quote]Bea Arthur, on the other hand, could make me laugh with just a look.

That "look" *was* her career.

Fuck-in! Fuck-in!

Ah, Wayland and Madame. Wayland was a genius.

Suck it to me!

Terrifyingly awful. A later episode had Madame in blackface with Tina Turner.

R10 Waylon Flowers had another puppet, Jiffy, who was black. Most people have forgotten about Jiffy. That was probably Jiffy in the scene with Tina Turner, not Madame.

Bea almost loses it at the end with the hose lol. She and Robin were the only interesting people on the show.

Well, Jiffy was Madame in blackface.

I knew only about the old Laugh-In, which ran from January '68 through March '73.

I didn't realize there was this "new" (and really awful) one. It lasted only 6 episodes.

This was before my time, but it does make me laugh. For those that know, was the regular show edited like this - just non stop 5 second erratic scenes from one to the next? or is that video some kind of highlight? Also, did this come on just like a regular tv show - "Thursdays at 9:00" ?

R15 I believe this was in first run syndication.

R16 here. I was wrong! It was a "series of specials" on NBC in 1977. After Mork and Mindy premiered, NBC reran them in the summer of 1979

Whet Bill Rafferty? He was on Real People then disappeared.

r18 Are you able to access that website google.com?

R18 - The most shocking factoid of "Real People" is that the bland, nebbish, utterly forgettable Byron Allen went on to become a gazillionaire power broker behind the scenes in Hollywood.

Real People made me realize I was gay. They did a segment on Playgirl magazine which included a photo shoot. That did it.

[quote]Was everyone in the 70s on drugs?

[quote]Pretty much - and they were the GOOD kind!

And they were cheap.

June Gable was really good. She was nominated for a Tony for Candide and was fresh off replacing Rita Moreno in The Ritz. Her character Esmeralda is definitely Googie. I saw her do her night club act at the Backlot at Studio One and she was fantastic. The stage had wigs all over and she noted that she was probably the first woman to do impressions of people like Bette Davis.

Bill Raffery looked like a hot bottom. Is he gay?

I watched this show yesterday - it wasn’t. Ad! Many many porn jokes! Odd.

R23 - That was the Tartikoff/Schlosser/Silverman Jew Gay agenda!