Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In
In Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, with its “Laugh-In Looks at the News” segment, light-heartedly interwove satiric political barbs into a mélange of silly and absurd one-liners, sight gags, and blackouts. It became television’s top-rated show during its first two seasons. Producer George Schlatter (b. 1932) noted that although the show presented “very barbed references to the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex,” it lacked anger and tried not “to change political views, but to comment humorously on all political views.”
In <em>Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In</em>, with its “<em>Laugh-In</em> Looks at the News” segment, light-heartedly interwove satiric political barbs into a mélange of silly and absurd one-liners, sight gags, and blackouts. It became television’s top-rated show during its first two seasons. Producer George Schlatter (b. 1932) noted that although the show presented “very barbed references to the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex,” it lacked anger and tried not “to change political views, but to comment humorously on all political views.”