So, going back in time to when TV was a beautiful age. See, there aren't that many shows on from the 60's or 70's. They don't circulate ALOT of them first of all, but I don't think you could even air the campy sketch-com program in this day and age.
I wonder, but I bet Laugh In eventually showed the image of Mohammad.
Take that MacFarlen. Arte Johnson had similar view point in an interview with him on one of the released DVD's of Laugh-In. It is good that they are selling some of it after so long, but there are some real gems available on Youtube. Almost, definitely constantly changing, but none the less you're guaranteed a prime clip each visit. It's like the campy form of videolistic heroine.
You can't resist because you realize that this was HUGE. It had 200 000 000 viewers easily - that is to say it was as American as apple pie and Scouts. It was the "Killer App" for color TV in the 70's. But sadly it was not left to stay. It was the big bang and TV evolution since has been drifting further from this intuitive form of comedy.
Any intelligent civilization from beyond our sun would look at our TV writing since as the residue from the time the networks were first created - a continued build up of slime on a once crystal clear window.
It's only going to continue to drift further and further towards hell, too.
Corporate control of media is totally realistic, it does but the emphasis on quality. But you know what I noticed about Laugh In?
1) There are no ad's running over everything.
2) The network ran the credits without cutting to a news anchor and this and that.
I feel that running promo's and ad's OVER TOP of a TV show is insulting. Any show that started in the 90's knows what I'm talking about. Greed is consuming TV at a exponential rate and the circle keeps it that way. The circle of life? The circle of death? The hamster wheel?
It doesn't matter, I was born in '88. This gives me no real advantage, by the time I was watching TV it had already been transformed from a world stage in your living room to a cheap vice.
I love TV. Without the median, there would be no message. We needed the message to evolve more. We are closer to God because of the TV. We are more connected with each other, mostly because of the TV. God Bless Technology. And God Bless Goldie Hawn.
Saturday, November 29
Reruns of "Laugh In"
Posted by John at 11/29/2008 09:55:00 PM
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