#Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In

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Goldie Hawn, 1968.

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Goldie Hawn

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Season 02, 1968

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Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In

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Bringing this back...

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Remembering Geoff Wonfer and Gene Perret

Here is my combined tribute to two entertainers who passed away this week:

Geoff Wonfer 1949-2022

British director / producer Geoff Wonfer has died at 73. His greatest work was the 1995 documentary mini-series The Beatles Anthology, which Wonfer co-directed with Bob Smeaton and Kevin Godley. This doc was the most comprehensive documentary about The Beatles (The Compleat Beatles is second). It aired in 3 parts in the U.S. on ABC-TV, but I got my 5-DVD set of the expanded version. He spent 4.5 years working on this fully authorized Beatles doc and it featured new interviews with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. In 2012 as I was finishing my V66 documentary, I posted on our social media some of the films and directors who influenced me while I was making my doc and I included Wonfer and The Beatles Anthology. 

Wonfer with George Harrison

Wonfer did a lot of music shows, music videos and documentaries, but he is especially noteworthy for the work he directed for Beatles and their solo projects including Hand Made in Hong Kong..... The Making of Shanghai Surprise featuring George Harrison, Paul McCartney Special, Paul McCartney: In the World Tonight, Paul McCartney: Live at the Cavern Club (which I wrote about in 2013), the Stella McCartney episode of Imagine, the Pete Best doc Best of the Beatles,  music videos including “Real Love” from Beatles Anthology and Sir Paul’s “The World Tonight”.

The link above is the obit from Billboard.

Gene Perret 1937-2022

Emmy-winning writer / producer Gene Perret has died at 85. He was a writer on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Carol Burnett Show, Welcome Back, Kotter, Three's Company, Mama's Family, and some episodes of All in the Family, What's Happening!!, and Gimme a Break!. That is quite a resume for TV comedy. In the case of WBK and 3C, he was also a producer too.

Bob Hope and Perret

The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.

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Goldie Hawn, Ruth Buzzi, and Judy Carne working on NBC’s “Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In” in 1969.

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TGIF

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Goldie Hawn And Dolly Parton!

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Chelsea Brown

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Season 02, 1968

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Long before Joe Rogan or Theo Von or Tony Hinchcliffe, Rowan and Martin and their head writer Paul Keyes may have helped elect Richard Nixon.

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Happy birthday, Jo Anne Worley! She is so special to me since she’s in my favorite movie, Beauty and the Beast, *and* I more recently discovered her on Laugh-In. Along with a standard portrait of her, and the enchanted Wardrobe, here is her chicken version who resides in my cuckoo world of Beautiful Downtown Birdbank!

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I have a feeling I'm gonna be using this gif so fucking often.... 😆

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there's this trend on tiktok called the "core trend". i created a rod serling core video and it's basically about him... and his funny side.