Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Choose an answer from the three choices and True or False offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In was an American sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968 to May 14, 1973. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and was broadcast over NBC.

• True or False?

2. The announcer, standing in an old-time radio studio with his hand cupped over his ear, making announcements, often with little relation to the rest of the show, such as (in an overly-dramatic voice), "Earlier that evening..." Who was the announcer?

• Gary Owens
• Ted Knight
• Bruce Allen

3. Who plays the dirty old man coming on to Gladys Ormphby?

• Strother Martin
• Dan Rowan
• Arte Johnson

4. Who plays the obnoxious telephone operator with no concern for her customers?

• Jo Anne Worley
• Lily Tomlin
• Barbara Sharma

5. Doris Swizzle is a seedy barfly paired with her husband, Leonard Swizzle. Dick Martin plays Leonard. Who is Doris Swizzle?

• Mary Tyler Moore
• Agnes Manfred
• Ruth Buzzi

6. Who is the giggling dumb blonde stumbling over her lines, especially when she introduced Dan's “News of the Future”?

• Pan Alley
• Victoria Budinger
• Goldie Hawn

7. “Here come de' judge!” (reprising comedian Pigmeat Markham and further popularized by guest stars Flip Wilson and especially Sammy Davis Jr.)

• True or False?

8. “I didn't know that.” (Arte Johnson's occasional response to what happened on an episode)

• True or False?

9. What Canadian born American Emmy-winning television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun offs begin the career as a writer on Laugh-In?

• John Rappaport
• Coslough Johnson
• Lorne Michaels

10. Henry Gibson and Arte Johnson were replaced by Richard Dawson and Larry Hovis, both of whom had appeared occasionally in the first season. What TV series had they been regulars on?

• Match Game
• Hogan’s Heroes
• Combat

Check Your Answers 

1. True
2. Gary Owens
3. Arte Johnson
4. Lily Tomlin
5. Ruth Buzzi
6. Goldie Hawn
7. True
8. False. It was a Dick Martin line.
9. Lorne Michaels
10. Hogan’s Heroes

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