The man did the best flounder impression in Hollywood. He’ll be sorely missed.
Goodnight, Dick.
I’m old enough to have watched Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. The show was funny, but at the time the jokes were very cutting edge. It left a legacy of the late 60’s/early 70’s, a very tumulutous time in our history.
Goodnight Dick.
He was a first-class funnyman.
Issue him his harp, wings, halo, & red rubber nose.
Awww. He’s also in one of my all-time favorite movies - “The Glass Bottom Boat”.
VCNJ~
The show was huge, with even Richard Nixon appearing to ask: Sock it to ME? It introduced Goldie Hawn and her infectious giggle to the world, and really redefined TV comedy.
RIP, Mr. Martin. Thanks for all those hilarious Monday nights.
Jo Ann Worley in a bikini and body paint?! Did this guy ever see the show?
There was, however, Judy Carne. Me likee.
I did, and that means I know that Jo Anne* Worley never once wore a bikini. She aways wore a one-piece. Always.
Say goodnight, Dick.
Goodnight Dick.
*I even know how to spell her name.
Ah Man! That really sucks. I loved Laugh-In. RIP, Dick.
I hope he finally found the Maltese Bippy!
One bit that sticks in my mind: cast members are doing little cameo shticks with musical instrument names.
Worley: That’s the way the coro-nets!
Carne: That’s the way the saxi-phones!
Hawn: That’s the way the drum!
Cracked me up.
What a cast!
J.J. Barry
Donna Jean Young
Eileen Brennan
Nancie Phillips
Barbara Sharma
Dennis Allen
Goldie Hawn
Judy Carne
Alan Sues
Johnny Brown
Henry Gibson
Roddy Maude-Roxby
Stu Gilliam
Dick Whittington
Pamela Rodgers
Jeremy Lloyd
Dave Madden
Chelsea Brown
Harvey Jason
Ann Elder
Moosie Drier
Tod Bass
Brian Bressler
Patti Deutsch
Lisa Farringer
Sarah Kennedy
Jud Strunk
Willie Tyler
Jo Anne Worley
Ruth Buzzi
Dewey ‘Pigmeat’ Markham
Mitzi McCall
Charlie Brill
Teresa Graves
Let’s not forget Arte Johnson!
The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate found him at last.
RIP, Dick.
Or Lily Tomlin.
Goodnight, Dick.
Or former Hogan’s Heroes cast member and future game show host Richard “Survey Says” Dawson and his Hogan’s co-star, Larry Hovis.
Nitpick: Goldie was already introduced to the world by the sitcom Good Morning World!, infectious giggle and all. But there’s no doubt that Laugh-In did much more for her fame.
cochrane – I don’t recall Richard Dawson being on Laugh-In, but the iMDB confirms that he was. They don’t list Larry Hovis, though. (and for what it’s worth – not much, it seems – I don’t recall him being on the show, either.)
Hovis was on the 1967 special and the first season (early 1968.) He was also a writer for the show. He left to do Hogan’s Heroes. When that was canceled both he and Dawson returned for the fifth season, in 1971-1972. Not that many people were watching by then.
Goldie Hawn was entirely new to me in 1968. If not that many people watched Laugh-In’s fifth season, then one-tenth of not that many watched Good Morning, World.