The most spiritually compelling moment of the Screen Actors Guild Awards came when the Guild paid tribute to those who'd lost their lives since the last gathering. Susan Sarandon shared a very nice tribute to the actors who've passed, and......

Filed under: Festivus, Celebrities, Obituaries, Reality-Free This is always the most depressing end-of-year list -- the TV people (in front of and behind the camera) who died during the past year. This is a big list, but if we forgot anyone, let us know in the comments (and check out the obituary ca...

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Video, Retro Squad Here's an interesting little film short that I saw on Turner Classic Movies earlier this week. It features Dan Rowan and the recently departed Dick Martin, stars of the 60s psychedelic sketch comedy Laugh-In, promoting the sale of the new...

The GREAT director and actor Sydney Pollack has died. He had been fighting cancer for the last 6 - 7 months. Dick Martin of the revolutionary late 1960’s comedy Laugh In died. In the late 60’s this country seemed to be falling apart. There were several short lived comedy’s which re...

Filed under: Obits, Harry Potter Joseph Pevney (1911-2008) - Director, Actor - Directed James Cagney as Lon Chaney in Man of a Thousand Faces, Boris Karloff in The Strange Door, Debbie Reynolds in Tammy and the Bachelor, Frank Sinatra in Meet Danny Wilson, Joan Crawford in Female on the Beach, Marti...

"Laugh-In" funnyman Dick Martin's life remembered, part of a comedy duo to Dan Rowan's straightman, he helped a generation get through some difficult times with laughter. Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack dies (the man who gave us Tootsie and Out of Africa, among many others)....

One of the funniest men in America has left us a bit saddened. The crazy comic Dick Martin, who, along with his late partner Dan Rowan, had us all in stitches with their Sixties-crazy Laugh-In, passed away this past Saturday of respiratory complications. He was 86. One of the funniest bits I remembe...

"Honestly, it's the kids that made us successful. They had a good outlook, and we made it fun." -Dick Martin, referring to the show "Laugh-In." It made me sad today to find out the comedian, Dick Martin, had passed away last night. It always makes me sad to hear that someone with so much talent for ...

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The death of Dick Martin is shattering showbiz news — his "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" once not only had all America howling, it got the last laugh at the Emmys too. "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" debuted as a stand-alone special in September 1967 and showed such promise as a s...