Arte Johnson win the war. Johnson also starred in the 1971 episode of Rod Serling's "Night Gallery" entitled "The Flip-Side of Satan", playing ruthless disk jockey J.J. Wilson, who is forced to confront his past transgressions. Johnson is best known for his work on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" from 1968 to 1973, on which he played various characters, with his most notable being "Wolfgang," a cigarette-smoking German soldier who believed that World War II was still ongoing, as he scouted the show while hidden behind bushes. He would then invariably comment on the preceding sketch with the catchphrase "Very interesting ...", which
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In hippie culture, terms that were, in turn, derived from "sit-ins", common in protests associated with civil rights and antiwar demonstrations of the time. In 2002, "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" was ranked number 42 on "TV Guide's" 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. "Laugh-In" had its roots in the humor of vaudeville and burlesque, but its most direct influences were Olsen and Johnson's comedy (such as the free-form Broadway revue "Hellzapoppin'"), the innovative television works of Ernie Kovacs, and the topical satire of "That Was The Week That Was". The show was characterized by a rapid-fire series of gags and