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Kevin Brown's avatar

The listing of acts which provided the confluence of the comedy revolution of the late '60s and '70s is not complete unless the first mainstream one is mentioned. Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In was a TV show like no other, and was the start of the revolution, pressing previously set boundaries yet somehow remaining mainstream.

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Jake's avatar

Man, at my screening I had a dude just going to town on his home-brought snacks and the sound was f*cked so the soundtrack played louder than the dialogue. Yet, I was still utterly captivated by it all.

Speaking to things being better in the past, I told an usher and they just sort of shrugged. Back when I worked in a theater as an usher I would have radio’ed the projectionist and they would have fixed it. Sometimes the past is actually better

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