horrorfilmx wrote:
One of the hardest things to appreciate is how daring Laugh-In was. They were pushing the envelope of what was politically acceptable pretty hard for their time.
The Smothers Brothers on rival network CBS also pushed the boundaries of social commentary and political humor -- maybe even a little harder than Laugh-In did. What made Laugh-In so daring and innovative was its form, not its content. Laugh-In did away with the conventions of variety TV that harked back to vaudeville,  and gave us a nonstop, machine-gun-paced stream of quick sketches, blackouts, musical numbers, one-liners, and non sequiturs.  It was "absolute television" -- it wouldn't have worked in any other entertainment medium. In that sense, Laugh-In owed much to the experimental TV of Ernie Kovacs a decade earlier.

And young Goldie Hawn was just so unbelievably cute.

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