Arte Johnson

October, 1969

Since the 1968 midseason premiere of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (see this month's Playboy Interview, page 83), Arte Johnson has been among the show's madcap mainstays. A one-man population explosion, he's given birth to a rogues' gallery of television's most refreshing comic characters. Among his repertoire of 60 alter egos, in addition to the "very interesting" storm trooper, Wolfgang, formerly a laundryman at Berchtesgaden, he portrays Pyotor Rosmenko, the phrase-fracturing Slavic s...