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David Hyde talks to Syracuse University professor, Robert Thompson about what politicians get out of prime time cameos. First Lady Michelle Obama will ...
Before Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show or The Colbert Report, there was Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in, one of the most revolutionary television shows of all time. From 1968 until 1973, Laugh ...
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Watching Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate, a tribute five decades later about the NBC series Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, the aforementioned ...
Behind the laughter at 'Laugh-In'Richard Nixon, and John Wayne in a bunny suit GS: Producer Paul Keyes was Nixon’s closest friend. He asked him. GO: He was his speechwriter. GS: He was his joke ...
George Slaughter, the creator of "Laugh-In," talking about Richard Nixon's appearance on the show in 1968. And tomorrow, we dig back into the campaign toolbox for tool that's a lot less silly but ...
Of the Nixon cameo, Schlatter says, “People tell me his appearance on ‘Laugh-In’ is probably what got him elected again. I have to live with that.
Hollywood Flashback: The Time Nixon Made a Lighthearted Appearance on ‘Laugh In’ "It had to be under 10? seconds, nonpolitical, and we had to offer equal time to the other candidates," recalls ...
In a true homage and much like the genre-defying series it celebrates, “Still Laugh-In” bends the conventional reunion or anniversary special by mixing surprisingly relevant clips (fake news ...
Unlike, for example, Nixon’s Nixon, in which director Jim Simpson permitted “no latex noses,” Frost/Nixon puts Frank Langella through the paces of a full-on impersonation—replete with ...
Such was the influence of “Laugh-In” that Richard M. Nixon’s presidential campaign managers persuaded him to make a guest appearance in 1968 to try to temper his super-square persona.
Dick Martin, co-host of Rowan and Martin's Laugh In, a TV comedy staple of the 1960s, died Saturday. Zany, frenetic, and daring in its references to sex and drugs, Laugh-In challenged the more ...
A new documentary called "The Mojo Manifesto" chronicles the life and career of the court jester of country and rock 'n roll, Mojo Nixon.