A show called The Best of Laugh-In runs this week on various PBS stations. It's on tomorrow night on KOCE in Los Angeles, which is where PBS lives now that KCET is no longer an affiliate.
I was a tremendous fan of Laugh-In when it was first on the air and spent a number of fascinating afternoons poaching on their stage at NBC in, as they say, Beautiful Downtown Burbank. A few weeks ago, I attended an event at the Paley Center to honor the show. The guests were Gary Owens, Arte Johnson, Joanne Worley and Executive Producer George Schlatter, with a number of behind-the-scenes folks in the audience. I didn't report on it here because there was really nothing quotable but it was good to see those folks in person and on the screen. The show is dated in some ways but remarkably fresh in others, and while I haven't seen the special yet, it's always interesting to me to watch those old shows and recall that era.