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Compare YOUR age with the Laugh-In regulars

posted 16 years ago by crazytrinal85
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As a kid watching this show in the late 60s, everyone seemed "much" older but today it's unfortunately not quite the same. I was looking up the ages for each of the regular when they started the show (1968) and things really shocked the hell out of me.

Dan Rowan (1922) - 46
Dick Martin (1922) - 46
Gary Owens (1936) - 32
Ruth Buzzi (1936) - 32
Henry Gibson (1935) - 33
Arte Johnson (1929) - 39
Alan Sues (1926) - 42
Jo Anne Worley (1937) - 32
Goldie Hawn (1945) - 23
Judy Carne (1929) - 39

So, how do you stack up against them?

[–] uncle_nick1979 16 years ago

First time I saw this show was when I was a child staying up late watching Nick at Nite back in the 80's. But just to compare my age to the rest of them, here goes as of 1989, when I first began to see them on cable TV:

Me (1979)--10
Dan Rowan (1922)--67 (same age as my grandmother)
Dick Martin (1922)--67
Gary Owens (1936)--53
Ruth Buzzi (1936)--53
Henry Gibson (1935)--54
Arte Johnson (1929)--60
Alan Sues (1926)--63
Jo Anne Worley (1937)--52
Goldie Hawn (1945)--44 (1 year older than my dad)
Judy Carne (1929)--60

Warning: The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily that of the author.

[–] lroy77 15 years ago

You're just about my age. I turned 47 a couple of weeks ago. Very scary.

Today's adults are so immature. It used to be teenagers acted like they were in their mid 20s and today people in their 40s act like they're in their early 20s. How's that for a reversal?!

To compare dates, my mother was born in 1931 and my father was born in 1928 so these guys were basically their peers (except Goldie Hawn). How'd you like to live with adults that old? They WERE mature adults...with jobs, taxes and all the rest of responsibilites of life. Thankfully most all still alive as far as I know (except for Dan and Dick).

Whether by choice or circumstances, it's a whole different world for us adults now. I wonder what kids will think about us 40 years from now.

Peace.

[–] thecrashplace 13 years ago

Unfortunately, I wasn't alive when the show was new. I'm currently 19, but I've loved Laugh-In since the moment I first saw it.

[–] amazon423 13 years ago

I was 14 when it came on. I still lose it watching the re-runs on PBS during pledge month. You cannot find comedy like this nowadays. It was reasonably clean and downright hilarious.

[–] indy_go_blue44 8 years ago

I was 17 when it first aired, so Goldie was 5 or so years older than me, the others were more my parents age or younger. Dick and Dan are (were?) a year younger than my mom.

[–] liscarkat (16592) 2 years ago

I was thirteen when I saw the first episode in its first airing in September of 1967. I'm surprised Worley was so young; she seemed middle-aged to me at the time, but I was just a kid.

The OP has several mistakes. Here is a corrected list of cast members' ages when the first episode was made in the summer of 1967:

Dan Rowan (July 1922) - 45
Dick Martin (Jan. 1922) - 45
Gary Owens (May 1934 - 33
Ruth Buzzi (July 1936) - 31
Henry Gibson (Sept. 1935) - 31
Arte Johnson (Jan. 1929) - 38
Alan Sues (March 1926) - 41
Jo Anne Worley (Sept. 1937) - 29
Goldie Hawn (Nov. 1945) - 21
Judy Carne (April 1939) - 28

Gibson and Worley were both born in September, which was the month the show premiered, but were probably still thirty-one and twenty-nine, respectively, when it was actually produced.