TV's "Laugh-in" comic Dick Martin dies in Calif

[johnnie]

LOS ANGELES - 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 catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86.


Family spokesman Barry Greenberg says Martin died Saturday night of respiratory complications at a hospital in Santa Monica.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080525/ap_on_re_us/obit_martin_1

[Droopy]

1. R.I.P. Dick Martin

I don't know the show, but I've heard of it before. 86 is a good run.

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2. i'm old enough to have watched "laugh in" as it was broadcast...

you could broadcast that show today and it would still get laughs.

rowan and martin made me laugh. what a fine thing that is to say about anyone.

bless you dick martin. you brought joy into my life.

thank you...

[KittyWampus]

18. my whole family watched

[DFW]

3. I used to watch it every week

It was a highlight of the late 60s week.

"Good night, Dick!"

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4. heh...

i've just been over to youtube where there are like a million "laugh in" clips.



but you said it best, dfw.



"good night, dick..."

[two gun sid]

5. Goodnight Dick.

RIP.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

6. RIP Dick

You bet your bippy I loved Laugh-In.

Thank you for laughs uncounted :)

[Deja Q]

7. I wish the Laugh-In series would be released on DVD properly.

86 was a good age.

May he RIP.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. Say Good NIght, Dick...

may he rest in peace :cry:

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Good night, Dick

[Mad_Dem_X]

9. Rest in peace, Mr. Martin.

[Va Lefty]

10. Farewell Dick

you made people laugh, no small task in this world. RIP. Goodnight Dick

[Ptah]

11. Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls! n/t

[peekaloo]

12. The Fickle Finger of Fate

RIP and good night Dick.

[CTyankee]

13. Wasn't it the FLYING Fickle finger of fate?

I remember how that "award" looked, very funny...

[peekaloo]

17. I believe you are correct.

my dad didn't like me watching that show yet he would watch and laugh like a madman.

:-)

[poiuytsister]

15. Quote of the week

my local newreader was annoucing this story this morning, and said he "achieved television immorality" with this show. She has no clue what she had just said.

[NV Whino]

16. Dick would have loved that

R.I.P, Dick. thanks for the laughs, and Lily andy Goldie. That was a great show.

[Iggo]

19. I loved that guy.

When I was little, my dad and I would watch Laugh-In together. Most, if not all, of the political stuff went right over my head, but most of the goofy stuff even a little kid could understand. Every now and again I'd stay up to watch Playboy After Dark, which also featured Dick Martin, but I didn't think that was funny at all.

But I remember I thinking Dick Martin was talking right to me through the TV screen and I really liked him. I'm sad that he's gone.

Say G'night, Dick...