Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in: the Sock-It-To-Me Collection: You Bet Your Bippy

Disc One: 1968 episode with Guests Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Jack Benny, Rock Hudson. A Christmas Show, of sorts. Occasionally funny. As usual, alot of elaborate production for very small payoff, in too many spots, though when it does hit, it hits hard, and the very talented players shine; best satire is on the Toy Manufacturing industry.Disc Two: 1970 episode with Dan Blocker and many new cast members, including Lily Tomlin.By this season, the writing has improved, the political commentary much keener.Judy Carne fans will lament that she got less and less air time, at this point. It wasn't fair to include her in the opening credits, when she had approximately five seconds on camera, in this edpisode, and most likely, other ones.George Shlatter managed to present a kind of send up of the typical variety show; in fact, a send up of the whole entertainment scene. The old-timers still came on the show, sometimes looking confused. (Though, to be frank, much of the material was quite lame).Fans of the original telecasts will love to watch these episodes again, and a major selling-point is that they are not edited down to half-hour packages, or part of a documentary.Passable to good video-audio quality.

Two shows that were fun to see.It has been a few yearsA few laughs enjoyed

January, 1970: Guest James Garner.Great nostalgia for fans of the show, as "Best Of"s do not capture all the best stuff. Unfortunately, these full episodes, feature a ton of silliness, bailed out by the exceptionally talented cast, the interesting staging and costumes, and musical sequences (some quite sensual). Garner does not have a single funny line or bit, but his fans will still enjoy watching him work around the unfunny nonsense.Arte Johnson and Lily Tomlin are really the only consistently amusing players, especially Lily, who we must assume got to inject some original material. Some good bits from "The Party" and Dan Rowan as "General Bull Wright".October, 1970: Guest Orson Welles (cameo by Rod Serling).Almost humourless Halloween Show. Alot of creative costuming and production numbers, but just a few mildly funny lines. Welles is very low-key, as if he's trying to disassociate himself with all the weak material. Fun to note new cast members, Barbara Sharma, Ann Elder, Nancy Phillips, all doing well in challenging conditions. Vincent Price pops in and out - more engaged than Orson Welles.

One of my TV comedy shows. Brings back good, clean humor. Arrivered in one piece, Can't wait to watch the whole collection and have my own LAUGH IN marathon. Thank you for your timely and prompt shipment. Karen in Yakima, WA.

Anything Laugh-In I love! I'm happy great shows like this can be found. As a grown up I get ALL the jokes, now.

because I bought this DVD early, it will be a Christmas gift. I can only hope it plays well. If not it will be a enormous disappointment to the giftee and an embarassement to me as a gift giver.

There will never be another show quite like Laugh In. I grew up watching it on Nick at Night, when that channel first started in the early 80's, and am so glad to be able to get it on dvd.

Rowan and Martin as funny as ever. Quality of video OK but a lot of money for just two episodes. The Best of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In