# Goodnight, Dick **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2008, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537 "2008-05-25T05:41:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/1 "2008-05-25T05:41:59Z")
[Dick Martin of Rowan & Martin dies at 86](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080525/ap_on_en_tv/obit_martin). ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/2 "2008-05-25T07:55:33Z")
The man did the best flounder impression in Hollywood. He’ll be sorely missed. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/3 "2008-05-25T09:40:28Z")
Goodnight, Dick. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/4 "2008-05-25T11:40:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/5 "2008-05-25T12:02:03Z")
He was a first-class funnyman. Issue him his harp, wings, halo, & red rubber nose. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/6 "2008-05-25T12:50:07Z")
Awww. He’s also in one of my all-time favorite movies - “The Glass Bottom Boat”. VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/7 "2008-05-25T13:45:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/8 "2008-05-25T14:13:13Z")
RIP, Mr. Martin. Thanks for all those hilarious Monday nights. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/9 "2008-05-25T14:49:24Z")
> [@The AP](#): > > audiences were taken from scene to scene by quick, sometimes psychedelic-looking visual cuts, where they might see Hawn, Worley and other women dancing in bathing suits with political slogans, or sometimes just nonsense, painted on their bodies. _Jo Ann Worley_ in a bikini and body paint?! Did this guy ever _see_ the show? There was, however, [Judy Carne](http://www.webpan.com/thelaughin/images/show/judy_carne/judy_carne_laugh-in.jpg). Me likee. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/10 "2008-05-25T16:03:23Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] _Jo Ann Worley_ in a bikini and body paint?! Did this guy ever _see_ the show? [/QUOTE] 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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/11 "2008-05-25T16:07:35Z")
Ah Man! That really sucks. I loved _Laugh-In_. RIP, Dick. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/12 "2008-05-25T17:13:39Z")
☹ I hope he finally found the Maltese Bippy! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/13 "2008-05-25T17:17:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/14 "2008-05-25T17:22:03Z")
_ **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 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/15 "2008-05-25T17:44:12Z")
[QUOTE=ouryL] _ **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 [/QUOTE] Let’s not forget Arte Johnson! ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/16 "2008-05-25T18:24:17Z")
The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate found him at last. RIP, Dick. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/17 "2008-05-26T13:48:49Z")
[QUOTE=Chefguy] Let’s not forget Arte Johnson! [/QUOTE] Or Lily Tomlin. Goodnight, Dick. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/18 "2008-05-26T19:10:05Z")
[QUOTE=Chefguy] Let’s not forget Arte Johnson! [/QUOTE] Or former Hogan’s Heroes cast member and future game show host Richard “Survey Says” Dawson and his Hogan’s co-star, Larry Hovis. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/19 "2008-05-27T12:27:25Z")
> [@](#): > > It introduced Goldie Hawn and her infectious giggle to the world, and really redefined TV comedy. 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.) [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397051/](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397051/) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537/20 "2008-05-27T15:09:57Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goodnight-dick/450537.md?page=2)