I stumbled across this on YouTube. Someone had posted a six hour broadcast block of retro sitcoms that came on Nick@nite in 1989. I love old school TV. However, most of them were shows I just could never get into: Mister Ed, Car 54 Where Are You, My Three Sons. But I continued watching anyway, knowing I was wasting my time, as with a lot of things I manage to get sucked into on the internet. One of the shows was Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. It was my first time seeing it, and I wasn't impressed. It's similar to Carol Burnett - only difference is the material was written for a younger audience. At least that was my impression. The jokes are overtly sexual.... A few of them were funny, but many were in poor taste. The sketches are really strange. It's not the type of humor that requires you to think, and it gets boring quickly. People back then seemed like deadheads. Makes me even more annoyed when I think about how boomers criticize my generation. Acting weird and stupid isn't something that just started. Millennials didn't invent the it's-cool-to-be-a-freak mentality. Judging from this show, it's evident that attitude originated WAY before I came along. And the nonstop barrage of political propaganda became tiresome. I'm a pacifist, and it got on my nerves. It reminded me of the current SNL. A skit can't even go a minute without them pushing an agenda. I watch comedy to laugh. If I want to catch up on politics, that's what the news is for. I used to think the 60s seemed like a cool time, but after watching this, my opinion has changed. I bet folks were just as screwed up as they are nowadays.
Review of Laugh-In
