Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Barbara Feldon, Anissa Jones, Jerry Lewis, Pat Morita, Dinah Shore, Sonny & Cher, John Wayne, Paul Winchell
TV Flash files “Barbara Feldon, Anissa Jones, Jerry Lewis, Pat Morita, Dinah Shore, Sonny & Cher, John Wayne, Paul Winchell” as a desk essential hour — Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1973) on NBC, season 1, episode 8, aired 1968-03-11, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E08: listed hour 9 of 141 in the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In guide, hour 9 of 15 in season 1. It aired 1968-03-11 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Godfrey Cambridge, Sally Field, Larry Hovis, Jerry Lewis, Terry-Thomas, Joby Baker, Inga Neilsen” (S01E07). Next is “Elgin Baylor, Harry Belafonte, Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis, Jr., Regis Philbin, John Wayne, Pamela Austin” (S01E09).
Essential hour: “Barbara Feldon, Anissa Jones, Jerry Lewis, Pat Morita, Dinah Shore, Sonny & Cher, John Wayne, Paul Winchell”. John Wayne in the machine — A-list agreeing to be a punchline, which is the show's real stunt.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Barbara Feldon, Anissa Jones, Jerry Lewis, Pat Morita, Dinah Shore, Sonny & Cher, John Wayne, Paul Winchell sit in the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In guide?
S01E08 is listed hour 9 of 141 — hour 9 of 15 in season 1, season 1 episode 8.
When did Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In S01E08 air?
Barbara Feldon, Anissa Jones, Jerry Lewis, Pat Morita, Dinah Shore, Sonny & Cher, John Wayne, Paul Winchell aired 1968-03-11 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I watch Laugh-In in order, or hop?
Hop. It is a sketch variety hour, not a serial. Guest lists are the chapter titles. Start with the 1967 pilot special or a season-2 guest stack if you want the velocity at full boil.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch the after-party that got a timeslot: catchphrases as national sport, guest-star politics in a bikini-joke machine, and the hour a presidential candidate walked into a punchline. Sketch velocity with velvet-rope heat — still the template for treating celebrity as a blackout gag.
The hand was on the joke wall for exactly one blackout, then gone — sock it to me, beautiful downtown Burbank, a bikini with graffiti that the censors negotiated like a treaty. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In did not wait for an after-party. It was the after-party, 1968 on NBC, a Monday-night crime scene of catchphrases, guest-star cameos, and a pace that treated the remote like a cocktail shaker. If you only watched the hosts' tuxedos, you missed the show. The heat was in the cutaways, the Tramp, the telephone…
Filed against
- Dan Rowan as Host
Dan Rowan co-hosted Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, the rapid-fire sketch explosion that made catchphrases a national sport. Straight-man cool opposite Dick Martin’s chaos helped sell counterculture on network prime time. On TV Flash he’s…
- Dick Martin as Host
Dick Martin co-hosted Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In as the chaos half of the velvet rope — rapid-fire sketch, catchphrases as national sport, guest-star politics in a bikini-joke factory. Straight man Dan Rowan sold the timeslot; Martin shook…
- Goldie Hawn as Regular
Goldie Hawn was a Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In regular — bikini-joke factory, catchphrases as national sport, a red carpet with a laugh track. TV Flash files her as 1960s variety voltage: the giggle the blackout needed, guest-star politics…
- Lily Tomlin as Regular
Lily Tomlin’s Laugh-In arrival was a second heat check — characters that outlive the timeslot in Rowan and Martin’s catchphrase factory. Telephone-operator cutaways, bikini-joke velocity, a Monday-night afterparty that sold rebellion…
- Arte Johnson as Regular
Arte Johnson was a Laugh-In regular whose catchphrases and character bits helped make rapid-fire sketch chaos a national sport. “Very interesting…” still echoes in variety-history rewatches. TV Flash files him as 1960s counterculture…
Also in season 1
- S01E00 Pilot Special
- S01E01 Leo G. Carroll, Barbara Feldon, Lorne Greene, Buddy Hackett, Sheldon Leonard, The Strawberry Alarm Clock, Tiny Tim, Flip Wilson
- S01E02 Leo G. Carroll, Robert Culp, The First Edition, Larry Hovis, Sheldon Leonard, Tom Smothers, Flip Wilson, Muriel Landers
- S01E03 Tim Conway, Cher, Sheldon Leonard, Tiny Tim, Flip Wilson, Paul Gilbert
- S01E04 Don Adams, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Jack Riley, Walter Slezak, David Watson, Pamela Austin, Paul Gilbert
- S01E05 Kaye Ballard, Richard Dawson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Larry Hovis, Peter Lawford, Dinah Shore, Walter Slezak