Perfect cast and a good story

Fresh and Exciting

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Laugh-in is a time capsule of just how "cutting edge" TV could get in the late 60's. Basically a playboy club televised for hip family viewing. Innuendos galore to protect the kiddies and clever skits to make the nerdiest of viewers "aware" of what was going on outside suburbia.Featured players Judy Carne (talented, awesome legs and fantastic timing, great dancer, love the robot couple of her and Arte Johnson). Goldie Hawn ( great act as a ditz but way more behind that cute chickadee facade...unsuccessfully replaced after her departure). Arte Johnson (TOTAL TALENT). Ruth Buzzy (always funny, born with a perfect face for comedy). Flip Wilson (appeared frequently in season 1 & 2 almost a cast member but clearly an awesome talent who went on to fabulous success with his own show). Alan Sues (the Paul Lynde of Laugh-in and just funny every time. Henry Gibson (subtle humor and fabulous talent). These people were the core group that made this show fly and as they left, so went the really funny parts of the show. I'd take Judy's cute sexy switchboard operator over Tomlin's boring, antiquated bit anytime. It seems like the show just got really mainstream and safe after 1970, maybe even a little before that and the loss of these great performers clearly show the poor effort at trying to replace them. But the first few seasons are gold.

Anyone who wasn't around in the late 1960s can't possibly appreciate how popular "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" was in 1968 and 1969. Everyone watched it and the jokes were endlessly repeated at my school the next morning. The humor touched upon formerly taboo subjects like sex, homosexuality, drugs, pregnancy, infidelity, and just about everything else. The series also had several innovations such as a joke wall, the party sequence, the news of the past, present, and future, and dignified guest stars (such as George Raft, Edward G. Robinson, John Wayne, plus many others) acting like clueless idiots. The show also introduced what became household names, including Judy Carne, Goldie Hawn, Lily Tomlin, Alan Sues, Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson, and many others. The primary thing that made everything work--in addition to the very funny writing--was the breathtakingly fast editing used. No one had ever done or seen anything like that before.The show was so refreshing when compared to usual late 1960s fare that it was an instant smash hit that lasted six seasons. While it seems curiously dated now--the subject matter is so mild today--it was cutting-edge, daring, and uproarious 47 years ago. While the show finally faded away in 1973, it's a reminder of a time in the country's history when everyone was ready for something new, different, and very funny. "Laugh-In" provided something completely new, offbeat and screamingly funny all those long years ago.

who doesn't like this show. it had some of the biggest names in hollywood, like jo anne worley, goldie hawn, soon-to-be president richard nixon, milton berle, bob hope, and even the merchant of venom: don rickles. it was made during a time when sexist and racist jokes were actually funny, and had the big names in hollywood do skits to make themselves look like asses. if you haven't seen this show, you're an idiot, and if you have, keep on smilin', keep on cheerin', and keep on laughin'!

This show is a true snap-shot of the expression "My, how times have changed!" The scariest part of watching re-runs of this awful show is that an entire generation of Americans actually found the sketches (if you can call them that) funny. I watch it a few times a week just out of morbid fascination. Kind of like watching a car wreck as you drive by. Nearly every pop culture icon of the late 1960's & early 1970's did a guest spot on the show. Even Nixon. To call it "sketch humor" is a bit rediculous. It's mostly a dated show of 1960's one-liners. Political humor, sexist humor, and just plain corn-ball crap. No one now would find it remotely interesting unless they had a first hand knowledge of the times or were just into 20th Century history. It is fun to see dead stars of the past and those who aged really bad. It is also fun to watch celebrities who have sold their souls to the devil. This is based on several actors who have not changed at all since the show aired! LOL.... This show really sucks to put it bluntly. It's scary to think it was once the number one rated television show in America. I guess so many people were on hallucenogens, that no one noticed how horrible it was.