>> when "laugh-in" came along, we'd never seen anything that was kind of like grown-ups acting goofy and hip that way. they had girls dancing in bikinis and the joke wall. >> who's in there with you? >> cool hand luke. >> and it was nothing but jokes. >> i was at the hospital. >> anything serious? >> a black widow bit me. >> well, it never would have happened if he'd been a gentleman. >> jugs. >> we took it to the network and the network said what the hell is this? this makes no sense. i said, right. >> they acknowledged the hippie generation, yet the hosts were in tuxedos smoking cigarettes. they were still your parents. but the other people let loose on the show were this kind of young vaudeville. >> it's sock it to me time. >> hey, she socked it to herself.