Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Johnny Carson, Gore Vidal, Sam Yorty
TV Flash files “Johnny Carson, Gore Vidal, Sam Yorty” as hour 84 of 141 in the TV Flash guide — Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1973) on NBC, season 4, episode 17, aired 1971-01-11, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E17: listed hour 84 of 141 in the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In guide, hour 17 of 26 in season 4. It aired 1971-01-11 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Wilt Chamberlain, Sammy Davis, Jr.” (S04E16). Next is “Joey Bishop, Jilly Rizzo, David Steinberg” (S04E18).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Johnny Carson, Gore Vidal, Sam Yorty sit in the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In guide?
S04E17 is listed hour 84 of 141 — hour 17 of 26 in season 4, season 4 episode 17.
When did Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In S04E17 air?
Johnny Carson, Gore Vidal, Sam Yorty aired 1971-01-11 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…
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- Dick Martin as Host
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- Goldie Hawn as Regular
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- Lily Tomlin as Regular
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- Arte Johnson as Regular
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