Has anyone watched Laugh-In TV show recently?

[Kablooie]

I remember it as being amazingly funny and entertaining.
It was one of biggest TV hits of all time.

Watching it today it is not funny, tedious, childish and annoying.
What happened? How can our sensibilities change so drastically?

[msongs]

1. it was considered naughty at the time nt

[Skittles]

2. see I always found it not funny, tedious, childish and annoyiing

and I was brought up on ENGLISH humor

[MIButterfly]

3. Remember all the catch phrases that became part of the culture at the time?

You bet your sweet bippy.
Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls.
Beautiful downtown Burbank.
Sock it to me.
Very inter-es-tink.
Hear come da judge.

I'm sure there's more I can't remember.

Several years back, I saw a rerun of the News of the Future from 1968 where they talked about Pesident Ronald Reagan, which got a huge laugh. And then just 12 years later, it came true and nobody was laughing.

[Mister Ed]

4. Same here. It was a laugh a minute back in its heyday.

But in later times, the reruns I've seen have seemed dull as dirt.

[Intractable]

5. How do reruns of Mr Ed hold up?

I loved it as a kid. But 50 years later, I don't think I could watch it.

Now, Green Acres would be a different story.

[Mister Ed]

6. I don't know. I haven't watched any reruns of the classic sitcoms.

I've been thinking lately, though, that I should reach way, way back and see if the old Marx Brothers movies are as funny as I remember them.
(Not that I'm old enough to have seen them as first-run films. But when I was a teenager, my friends and I loved to go to a local theater when they occasionally showed vintage Marx Brothers.)