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  • TV's "Laugh-in" comic Dick Martin dies in Calif

    05/24/2008 9:02:59 PM PDT · by lunarbicep · 114 replies · 1,451+ views
    npr.org ^ | May 24, 2008
    Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as "Sock it to me!" has died. He was 86. Martin, who went on to become one of television's busiest directors after splitting with Rowan in the late 1970s, died Saturday night of respiratory complications at a hospital in Santa Monica, family spokesman Barry Greenberg said. "He had had some pretty severe respiratory problems for many years, and he had pretty much stopped breathing a week...