Dick Martin

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Laugh-In's Dick Martin Dead at 86 | Today's News: Our Take | 5/25/2008
Dick Martin, best known for his cohosting of TV's irreverent and counter-culture Laugh-In, died Saturday night of respiratory complications. He was 86. Martin, who lost the use of one of his lungs as a teenager, "had had some pretty severe respiratory problems for many years," a family spokesperson tells the AP, and required supplemental oxygen for as much as 18 hours a day. "He had pretty much stopped breathing a week ago." As the hosts of Laugh-In, which debuted in 1968, Dan Rowan (also a veteran nightclub comic at the time) played straight man to Martin. The variety series for two years topped the Nielsens and bore such catchphrases as catchphrases as "Sock it to me" (once delivered by Richard Nixon, in a cameo) and "Look that up in your Funk and Wagnall's." Rowan, who suffered from diabetes, died in 1987.Later in his career, Martin was convinced by Bob Newhart to try TV directing, and went on to call the shots on episodes of Newhart, Archie Bunker's Place and Family Ties.... read more
Televisionary | 12/15/2005
Could you please tell me and my lunch buddies who played the guy in the yellow raincoat on Laugh-In who rode a tr read more
Televisionary | 12/18/2001
Question: Could you please tell me and my lunch buddies who played the guy in the yellow raincoat on Laugh-In who rode a read more

more Dick Martin news (3 total news articles)

Title	Year	Type
Bee Season (Actor - State Bee Pronouncer)	2005	Movie
'Christmas Special' Christmas Special (Remarks by)	2004	TV Show Series
Bartleby (Actor - The Mayor)	2002	Movie
The Trial Of Old Drum (Actor - Mayor Meyers)	2000	Movie
Air Bud: Golden Receiver (Actor - Phil Phil)	1998	Movie