What happens when you take Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, steep it in war-weary America’s longing for simpler times, and throw in top country music stars for good measure? You get hee-hee hee-hee-hee haw ...

From left, Dave Rexroad, Charlie Matthews, Bobby Holland and special guest Kiki Angelos in a skit from “Hee Haw” in 2024. Tickets for the show, a fundraiser for ...

“Hee Haw,” which premiered on CBS in 1969, was conceived as a kind of vaudeville revue for rural America: a parade of corny comedy sketches; buxom girls in pigtails, denim and gingham; and guest ...