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Author Topic: Dick Martin, 1922-2008 Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-27-2008 02:36 PM                     Dick Martin has died at 86. Dick Martin , the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowen and Martin's Laugh-In" took the TV by storm in the 1960s, making stars out of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and featured many other young stars. Dan Rowen died back in 1987. Sock it to me! RIP You bet your sweet bippy. [ 05-28-2008, 08:42 PM: Message edited by: Bill Gabel ]  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-27-2008 02:52 PM                  It may be a Japanese rice wine to you, but it's still sake to me. Wow! Another legend departs us. R.I.P. Dick Martin.  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-27-2008 02:57 PM                        That's really sad. Laugh In was a high point of our weekend viewing. " Say Goodnight, Dick" "Goodnight Dick" From one Dick to another. RIP  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 05-27-2008 03:05 PM                     quote: Phil Hill It may be a Japanese rice wine to you, but it's still sake to me. Off topic: Ironically, there is a brand called "sake to me." They make sake infused with flavors of fruit. The only one I've had was mixed with Asian pears. It tasted fantastic. On topic: Too bad to see a legend go. I only saw reruns of his show with my parents but he was a funny guy.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-27-2008 07:10 PM                        I wasn't allowed to watch Laugh-In the first year or two it was on, but my parents finally decided it was harmless enough. I liked the scenes with Dan and Dick the best...comedy gold, you bet your sweet bippy.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-27-2008 09:59 PM                     Good Night Dick!  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 05-27-2008 11:54 PM                        You bet your bottom bippy.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-28-2008 12:08 AM                       Oh, I'm sorry to hear this. I didn't realize he was that old. Those guys were legend. I remember watching Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In in the late 60s and doing skits from the show in our school. It was really a trend-setting program.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 05-28-2008 06:50 PM                     A few years back, I was working at a video tape duplicating facility. I was a Sprinter operator. (Sprinter is the brand name of a high speed video tape duplicator by Sony) We were duplicating Best Of Laugh-In shows. I got to enjoy these shows allover again. Rowan and Martin were an original. What's a Maltese Bippy?  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 05-28-2008 08:01 PM                     quote: Mike Blakesley I wasn't allowed to watch Laugh-In the first year or two it was on, but my parents finally decided it was harmless enough hahaha- I thought I was the only one whose parents did this to me. I too missed the first season or two until my folks realized it was actually a very funny, and harmless show. Laugh-In transformed the 'look' of television in the 1960's. Its' use of fast-cutting was innovative at the time, and all the more so when you consider that electronic editing was in its' infancy and from what I've read many of the early shows were entirely edited MANUALLY (ie: cut & splice) on 2" tape. WoW!  |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 05-28-2008 09:18 PM                        I actually caught the show on "Nick at Night" when I was a kid. No age comments, I know I'm probably younger than the average on here, but still. I rather liked the show. Especially the german guy. "Verry Interesting" It's been a few years since I've seen it, I forgot his name.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-28-2008 09:22 PM                     His name is Arte Johnson.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-28-2008 09:36 PM                     One thing that the younger folks may not realize is that when LAUGH-IN was on, there were only 3 or 4 TV channels in most markets (excluding the very large cities). So, almost everyone watched the same shows, and Laugh-In was especially popular. No VCR's here...you had to watch it live. I was in my Senior year of high school when this was on, and everyone laughed and rehashed the jokes the following day (I think Laugh-In was on Monday's at 8?) The night TINY TIM came on everyone just stopped and stared. Much like the Smothers Brothers, there was a political tone to some of these shows...especially on Laugh-In with the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate award. Great times, and lots of laughs. And Goldie Hawn never looked cuter!  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-29-2008 12:48 AM                        Pigmeat may have written it, but Sammy owned it: "Here come da judge, here come da judge..." As for editing, by the time Laugh In hit the air razor blade editing of quad tape, at least at the network level, was but a fond but not too distant memory. NBC was still an all-RCA network and the show would have been recorded and edited on TR-70's there "in beautiful downtown Burbank." Indeed, "Good night Dick." RIP  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-29-2008 01:40 AM                     I worked with Richard Dawson's son on a docu. and his dad and Dick Martin were pals in the 60s... apparently Dick could party with the best of them and it was a swingin good time!  |  IP: Logged

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