27.05.2008 [guardian] - When the pilot of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In aired in September 1967, the NBC network did not know what to do with it. Television comedy meant sitcoms or variety programmes; even the controversial Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour included its anti-war messages within the traditional variety format. Laugh-In, whose title reflected Sixties sit-ins, be-ins and love-ins, was a
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