Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
George Jessel, Tom Kennedy, Liberace, Rich Little, Don Rickles, Cliff Robertson, John Roach
TV Flash files “George Jessel, Tom Kennedy, Liberace, Rich Little, Don Rickles, Cliff Robertson, John Roach” as hour 33 of 141 in the TV Flash guide — Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1973) on NBC, season 2, episode 18, aired 1969-02-03, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E18: listed hour 33 of 141 in the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In guide, hour 18 of 26 in season 2. It aired 1969-02-03 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Jack Benny, Tony Curtis, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Frank Gorshin, George Jessel, Janos Prohaska, Samantha Lloyd” (S02E17). Next is “Greer Garson, Davy Jones, Nipsey Russell, Robert Wagner, Al "Red Dog" Weber” (S02E19).
Viewer FAQ
Where does George Jessel, Tom Kennedy, Liberace, Rich Little, Don Rickles, Cliff Robertson, John Roach sit in the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In guide?
S02E18 is listed hour 33 of 141 — hour 18 of 26 in season 2, season 2 episode 18.
When did Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In S02E18 air?
George Jessel, Tom Kennedy, Liberace, Rich Little, Don Rickles, Cliff Robertson, John Roach aired 1969-02-03 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 2
- S02E01 Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hugh Hefner, Bob Hope, Jack Lemmon, Richard Nixon, Sonny Tufts, John Wayne, John B. Whitney
- S02E02 Herb Alpert, Eve Arden, Arlene Dahl, Zsa Zsa Gabor, George Kirby, Jack Lemmon, John Wayne, Patrick Wayne
- S02E03 Zsa Zsa Gabor, Greer Garson, Bob Hope, Abbe Lane, Greg Morris, Otto Preminger
- S02E04 Robert Culp, Arlene Dahl, Kirk Douglas, Lena Horne, Liberace, France Nuyen, Otto Preminger, Sonny Tufts, Flip Wilson, Catherine Reid
- S02E05 Bobby Darin, Holy Modal Rounders, Rosemary Clooney, Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, Harland Sanders, Sonny Tufts
- S02E06 Greer Garson, Van Johnson, Werner Klemperer, Liberace, Flip Wilson