Television
It was 20 years ago this month that “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” burst onto American television with its blitz of jokes, sight gags, one-liners and blackouts delivered at such a dizzying pace that it left TV viewers agog.
Sept. 23, 1987
Obituaries
The British-born comedy writer helped develop the irreverent TV variety show that became an overnight sensation in the late 1960s. He later became a professor of writing.
May 8, 2012
Dan Rowan, the more genteel of the maitres d’ mirth on television’s historic and hysterical “Laugh-In” comedy series, died Tuesday of cancer at his home in Manasota Key, Fla.
Entertainment & Arts
Digby Wolfe dies at 82; co-creator of ‘Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In’
Comedian Dan Rowan of the hit 1960s TV comedy series “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” died today at his home in Englewood, Fla., a family spokeswoman announced.
Sept. 22, 1987
The stepfather of actress Meredith Baxter wrote for ‘Leave It to Beaver’ and won an Emmy for ‘Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In’ before creating the CBS sitcom with his late wife, actress Whitney Blake.
May 15, 2010
Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catchphrases as “Sock it to me!
May 25, 2008
‘Laugh-In’ stalwarts recall the development of the influential comedy series, which changed TV -- and U.S. history too.
June 29, 2003
Once upon a time in TV Land, a sketch-comedy show from “beautiful downtown Burbank” swept through prime time like a comic cyclone.
July 4, 2017
World & Nation
Judy Carne, a star of the U.S. comedy show “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” has died in a British hospital.
Sept. 8, 2015