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From: leichter@yale-com.UUCP (Jerry Leichter)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: Laughin
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Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 09:27:18 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 20 09:27:18 1983
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I watch it 'most every evening (7:00 on WOR, channel 9 in NY).  I still find it
very funny.

Some notes:  The original Laugh-in was an hour long; the re-runs are being cut
to half that.  The distributers say they are cutting out stuff that was "topi-
cal" at the time & not any longer.  Well...it's no likely you can find EXACTLY
half an hour of such stuff in every show.  Some of the shows don't seem to be
hurt at all by this process - Laugh-in was hardly big on continuity anyway -
while others leave you feeling something is missing.  This is especially the
case when they do things like cut the joke wall to 3 or 4 jokes - that's often
the funniest part of the show!

The shows are being aired in a random order.  Watch for a couple of days and
you'll see Dan Rowen's mustache (sp?) appear and disappear...

Which brings up the question:  "Where are they all now?"  Goldie Hawn went on
to movie acting, of course; after seeing her as a good actress in serious roles,
it's interesting to see the old "air-head" routine again - now knowing that it
is TOTALLY an act.  But I don't recall seeing any of the other regulars in
years.  Some of them are GOOD! - watch Artie Johnson at work, for example.
							-- Jerry
					decvax!yale-comix!leichter leichter@yale

Oh - and for you "youngsters" - if you want to see what mini- and micro-skirts
were like...well, Laugh-in is a bit of nostalgia that way, too.	-- Jerry