laugh-in
(ˈlɑːfɪn, ˈlæf-)
[-in3.]
A demonstration, event, or situation marked by laughter, often staged for this purpose; spec. as the name of an American television comedy programme.
| 1968 N.Y. Times 23 Jan. 79/2 The increasing liberality and topicality of Hollywood variety comedy was further evidenced last night in the hour of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, whose ‘Laugh In’ had a preseason tryout and now has deservedly won a niche as a regular series at 8 p.m. Mondays... Their hour is an extraordinary quick succession of sight laughs and sketches, many with a deft and good-natured satirical edge to give the show a contemporary pertinency. 1968 Manch. Guardian Weekly 21 Mar. 6 As part of their demonstration against the Defence Minister, Mr. Healey,..students at Cambridge proposed to organise a ‘laugh-in’. 1968 Listener 26 Dec. 854/2 There's a kind of cathartic quality about Danny la Rue that is a tremendous relief after weeks of trying to admire the Rowan and Martin Laugh-In. 1969 Time 6 June 56 At an airport, Fielding's baggage check-in is a laugh-in. 1969 Guardian 10 Feb. 8/3 ‘Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in’ is a proudly esoteric American comedy series shown late on Sunday night on BBC-2. 1974 Hawkey & Bingham Wild Card ii. 26 It had not been Wallcroft's scene at all, and he'd had to eat a lot of dirt to stay in the [television] business through its Laugh-in phase. |