Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In

The comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, which ran from 1968 to 1973 on NBC, is a woefully underrated innovator of commercial television in the US during he late 1960s, says Feil. He argues that the series contributed to video editing, ensemble comedy, political satire, and broadening network self-censorship practices but has been overshadowed in television scholarship by predecessors and successors. His topics are taste tests; vulgarity, the counter-culture, and beautiful downtown Burbank; mass camp, open secrets, and the agency of others; and identify politics and "other" humor. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)