There was a time when politicians did not want to appear on TV outside of the news. it wasn’t dignified. Things have changed. Three candidates from the last presidential election hosted Saturday Night Live, and President Obama appeared on the web series Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis. Our current president once hosted his own reality TV show, among other entertainment projects.
We can trace the crack in the custom back 50 years, to the 1968 season premiere of the sketch comedy show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. I will never forget the entire family’s jaws dropping when we saw presidential candidate and former vice-president Richard Nixon say “Sock…The post When Nixon Said “Sock it To Me” on Laugh-In appeared first on FeedBox.