The Most Important Question Of The Day

[ericcoleman]

[Poll #1193965]

As is happening various places the last day or so, we were discussing Dick Martin's passing over in dek9's LJ. zifferent came up with this. At this point I don't know if this person knows about the poll, but they do now.

Comments

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

I can never get enough of Laugh-In. Other than some of the jokes being about Vietnam, it holds up well. If those jokes could somehow be updated to Gulf War, I suspect it could play today without any other changes. Rowan doing the soldier uniform bit to the song When I Was 17 still sticks in my head. Besides, who doesn't want to see a giggly 18 year old Goldie Hawn in a bikini with funny saying body painted on her?

[lukeski.livejournal.com]

Dick Martin's passing is really strange for me, because, well...

In 2002, I did a Run DMC parody with Devo Spice that Dr. D started playing a lot of, and by a weird coincidence, Jam Master Jay was murdered. Whether or not that effected the Dr. D show popularity of "Peter Parker", I don't know, but it sure as hell wasn't intentional. I'd rather have Jay be alive and making more kick-ass music. :(

...Now a forthcoming FuMP collaboration I'm involved with which someone else is currently editing, engineering, and mastering, has very deliberate connections to Dick Martin. It's strange.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Dan & Dick's writers simply could not compare to Tom & Dickie's - especially Pat Paulsen & Mason Williams.

[ka-klick.livejournal.com]

Tough one for me - I remember watching and loving both shows back in their initial run (Yes I am getting old, but I was pretty young). I ended up going for the Smo Bro and I think it has mostly to do with the fact that their shows were more centered around music, but it was a tough choice.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

The Smothers Brothers act was unquestionable better than Rowan and Martin's. Their shows were both trailblazers in different areas.

Laugh-In was a recreation of vaudeville, Helzappoin on tv. If you didn't like one joke, wait two seconds for the next. Some of it was brilliant, most just one liners piled on. (The DVDs cut out some of the politics.)

The Smother's Brothers Comedy Hour was an amazing achievement in comedy, music and politics. It was so good, Nixon got it axed. (They won their court case against CBS). Much of it was brilliant, notably the politics.

[artpaulrocks.livejournal.com]

I guess I think of Rowan and Martin as more or less the Host and they said a few funny things but without the rest of the performers Rowan Martin's Laugh-In wouldn't be that funny. Where the Smother Brothers were funny just by themselves.
So I think the Smother Brother were funnier than Rowan and Martin but Laugh-In was a Funnier Show than the Smother Brother's Comedy Hour.

where is the love?

[madladyred.livejournal.com]

that was so hard!!!! i love both of them; both are great comedy teams, both clever and funny. but for the longest time i wanted to marry tommy smothers so all things being equal(ish) i voted for the cute one.

[ms-dblk.livejournal.com]

Rowan and Martin didn't run the race car circuit, and the Smothers Brothers did!