Arte Johnson Arte Johnson Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson (born January 20, 1929) is an American comic actor who was a regular on television's "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In". His best-remembered characters on the sketch show were a German soldier with the catchphrase "Verrrry interesting...", and an old man who habitually propositioned Ruth Buzzi's spinster character. Johnson was born January 20, 1929, in Benton Harbor, Michigan, and is the son of Abraham Lincoln and Edythe Mackenzie (Golden) Johnson. His father was an attorney. Johnson attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he worked at the campus radio station and the UI Theater Guild
Letters to Laugh-In uploaded to YouTube in July 2012. The episode featured a celebrity panel of Jo Anne Worley, Dan Rowan, Angie Dickinson and Jack E. Leonard. Letters to Laugh-In Letters to Laugh-In is a daytime game show and spin-off of NBC's nighttime comedy series, "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In", that aired on the network from September 29 to December 26, 1969. The show was hosted by Gary Owens, the announcer for "Laugh-In". Home viewers mailed their jokes to the program, during which they were read by a panel of four celebrities – two of them "Laugh-In" regulars. Each joke was rated on a