Quotes
Dan Rowan: [as the News of the Future anchor] Item: Washington, DC, 1988. President Ronald Reagan today denied once again that he is a candidate for the office of Governor of California.
Share thisTyrone F. Horneigh: Would you like to go to a play?
[Gladys hits him]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Would you like to go to a concert?
[Gladys hits him]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Would you like to go to a funeral?
[falls off the park bench]
Share thisDan Rowan: Now here's the man for whom the news wouldn't be the news without the news, Heeeere's Dicky.
Share thisDick Martin: You bet your sweet bippy.
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John Wayne: The sky is blue. The grass is green. Get off you butts and join the Marines.
Share thisErnestine, the telephone operator: One ringy-dingy. Two ringy-dingies.
Share thisAlan Sues: Oh, good heavens. Someone's copped my tinkle.
Share thisErnestine, the telephone operator: And as a special favor, I'm enclosing our three-color brochure on phone etiquette. You might find it useful.
Share thisAnnouncer: The preceding was recorded earlier because we were ashamed to do it now.
Share thisDinah Shore: If Ida Lupino married Don Ho she'd be Ida Ho.
Share thisErnestine, the telephone operator: How may I, in all humble servitude, be of assistance?
Share thisLiberace: I bet my sweet bippy and lost it.
Share thisBarbara Feldon: It's not the hawks and doves that I'm worried about... it's those cuckoos in Washington that want to make pigeons out of all of us.
Share thisGoldie Hawn: I don't see why there should be any question about capital punishment. I think everyone in the capital should be punished.
Share thisJudy Carne: It's so silly getting all uptight with anxieties. I say just sit back, relax, and let your troubles go up in smoke.
Share thisAlan Sues: Hey, Goldie, does the high cost of living bother you?
Goldie Hawn: No, I live on the ground-floor apartment.
Share thisTeresa Graves: Different strokes for different folks.
Share this[first lines of the show]
Announcer: What you're about to see is true.
[the word false appears on the screen, a man moves arrows on the clock in the back so it reads 8:00]
Announcer: Only names and faces have been left unchanged... to protect the innocent.
Share thisMilton Berle: The way some of the younger generation carries on, some people wish that they'd develop a birth control pill that was retroactive.
Share thisDan Rowan: Hey, Goldie, would you ever go on a hunger strike?
Goldie Hawn: No, I couldn't, I'm on a diet.
Share thisGoldie Hawn: My I.Q. has never been question. Actually, it never been mention.
Share thisJudy Carne: I love Joan Baez, I got her autographed fingerprints.
Share thisJo Anne: Boris says, "Red China is our friend. And when they get here, they're going to prove it."
Share thisJo Anne: Boris says, "Capitalism doesn't work." But neither does Boris.
Share thisEileen: It was too bad Frank and Mia broke up, I've always been against mixed marriages.
Share thisEileen: If they take the violence off TV, the kids won't have anything to watch on Saturday Morning.
Share thisGladys Ormphby: I tried to join the Sexual Revolution, but I flunked the physical.
Share thisBarbara Feldon: We really learned the 3 Rs "Reading, Writing, and Rhythm".
Share thisBarbara Sharma: Miss Diller, what can a girl do about bad breath?
Phyllis Diller: Keep your mouth shut.
Share thisAnnouncer: This show was prerecorded earlier, because it didn't make much sense to prerecorded it later.
German Soldier: Very interesting, not very funny, but very interesting.
Share thisDan Rowan: Say good night, Dick.
Dick Martin: Good night, Dick!
Dan Rowan: Good night, everybody!
Share thisCast: [repeated jingle] What's the news across the nation/We have got the information/in a way we hope will amuse - you - /We just love to give you our views/La da de da/Ladies and Gents, Laugh-In looks at the news!
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Dan Rowan: Hey, next week have we got a show...
Dick Martin: I'd like to say something my mother once said.
Share thisDan Rowan: [as the News of the Future anchor] Berlin, 20 years from now, 1989. There was dancing in the streets today as East Germany finally tore down the Berlin Wall. The joy was short-lived, however, as the wall was quickly replaced with a moat full of alligators.
Share thisDick Martin: How do you get him to follow you?
Dick Martin: Honey, just blow in his ear and he'll follow you anywhere.
Share thisJudy Carne: [as a switchboard operator answering the phone] NBC, beautiful downtown Burbank.
Share thisJo Anne: Did you know that a girl can get into alot of trouble all alone in beautiful downtown Burbank.
Share thisJudy Carne: I'll always call England the mother country, whether the queen takes the pill or not.
Share thisGoldie Hawn: Now THAT tickles my fancy!
Share thisTyrone F. Horneigh: Would you like to play Post Office?
[Gladys hits him]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Would you like to play Spin the Bottle?
[Gladys hits him]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Would you like to play Doctor?
[falls off the park bench]
Share thisTyrone F. Horneigh: Would you like to call me Cutie?
[Gladys hits him]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Would you like to call me Sweetie?
[Gladys hits him]
Tyrone F. Horneigh: Would you like to call me an ambulance?
[falls off the park bench]
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