This show is when they Rowan and Martin Laugh-In really gets started. The cast grows with more guests and Gary Owens annoucing and emcee work gets things on pace. This show features 2 musical guests that would grow into being infamous. Tiny Tim makes his debut in the new talent department. Then, Strawberry Alarm performs it's top 10 tune "Tomorrow" with a special film.
Flip Wilson will pop in here and does so well that he would later get a variety series of his own. There's more and the pace here becomes the frantic pace that Monty Python would use in that classic series. The jokes are good here.
For example, Dick Martin after listening to Tiny Tim's first song quips that the Army would "burn Tim's draft card." This show does carry on a tradition straight from Hellzapoppin with more of an elevator gag that was in the pilot continues. There are more blackouts with a ping pong table. There is more difference from the pilot as the show adds it's house band.
Skip the pilot, this is the first one to watch, still recorded in front of a live audience. Not as many audience shots in this one as the pilot. That's because with the larger cast there's more jokes and there are more sets in this episode.
"Your not going to bring back Tiny Tim are you?" quips Dick. Amazingly enough they would.
Flip Wilson will pop in here and does so well that he would later get a variety series of his own. There's more and the pace here becomes the frantic pace that Monty Python would use in that classic series. The jokes are good here.
For example, Dick Martin after listening to Tiny Tim's first song quips that the Army would "burn Tim's draft card." This show does carry on a tradition straight from Hellzapoppin with more of an elevator gag that was in the pilot continues. There are more blackouts with a ping pong table. There is more difference from the pilot as the show adds it's house band.
Skip the pilot, this is the first one to watch, still recorded in front of a live audience. Not as many audience shots in this one as the pilot. That's because with the larger cast there's more jokes and there are more sets in this episode.
"Your not going to bring back Tiny Tim are you?" quips Dick. Amazingly enough they would.