Interview Anne Beatts Anne Beatts (1947-2021) says of getting her break in comedy writing: "I always say very freely when people ask, 'how did you get into comedy?' I say 'the same way that Catherine the Great got into politics.' It wasn't like some Machiavellian scheme on my part, it was just that I was attracted to...
Show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in was the NBC comedy-variety program which became an important training ground for a generation of comic talent. If The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour captured the political earnestness and moral conscience of the 1960s counterculture, Laugh-in snared its flamboyance, its...
Interview Hector Ramirez In his three-and-a-half-hour interview, Hector Ramirez (1944-2023) discusses his career as a camera operator, from his start on All in the Family to one of his then-current positions as an Emmy-winning camera operator on Dancing With the Stars . He speaks of his move from Colombia to the United...