Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Bee Gees, Johnny Carson, Barbara Feldon, Harry Belafonte, Ed McMahon, Flip Wilson, Sivi Aberg
TV Flash files “The Bee Gees, Johnny Carson, Barbara Feldon, Harry Belafonte, Ed McMahon, Flip Wilson, Sivi Aberg” as a desk essential hour — Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1973) on NBC, season 1, episode 10, aired 1968-04-01, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E10: listed hour 11 of 141 in the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In guide, hour 11 of 15 in season 1. It aired 1968-04-01 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Elgin Baylor, Harry Belafonte, Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis, Jr., Regis Philbin, John Wayne, Pamela Austin” (S01E09). Next is “John Byner, Hugh Downs, James Garner, Flip Wilson, Paul Winchell, Pamela Austin, David Lipp” (S01E11).
Essential hour: “The Bee Gees, Johnny Carson, Barbara Feldon, Harry Belafonte, Ed McMahon, Flip Wilson, Sivi Aberg”. Carson leaving his own desk to sit in someone else's after-party. Late-night as a guest, not a throne.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Bee Gees, Johnny Carson, Barbara Feldon, Harry Belafonte, Ed McMahon, Flip Wilson, Sivi Aberg sit in the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In guide?
S01E10 is listed hour 11 of 141 — hour 11 of 15 in season 1, season 1 episode 10.
When did Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In S01E10 air?
The Bee Gees, Johnny Carson, Barbara Feldon, Harry Belafonte, Ed McMahon, Flip Wilson, Sivi Aberg aired 1968-04-01 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