Hee Haw's 50th Anniversary With Kornfield Friends

Today on The Neil Haley Show, The Total Tutor Neil Haley and Caregiver Dave will interview  Jana Jae, Misty Rowe, Lulu Roman, and Buck Trent.

About Hee Haw:
Hee Haw is an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with the fictional rural "Kornfield Kounty" as a backdrop. It aired first-run on CBS from 1969 to 1971, in syndication from 1971 to 1993, and on TNN from 1996 to 1997. RFD-TV began airing reruns in 2008, where it currently remains.

The show was inspired by Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the major difference being that Hee Haw was far less topical and was centered on country music and rural culture. Hosted by country music artists Buck Owens and Roy Clark for most of its run, the show was equally well known for its voluptuous, scantily clad women in stereotypical farmer's daughter outfits and country-style mini dresses (a group that came to be known as the "Hee Haw Honeys"), and its corn pone humor.

Hee Haw's appeal, however, was not limited to a rural audience. It was successful in all of the major markets, including New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Chicago. Like Laugh-In, the show minimized production costs by taping all of the recurring sketches for a season in batches, setting up for the Cornfield one day, the Joke Fence on another day, etc. At the height of its popularity, an entire season's worth of shows would be taped in two separate week-long sessions, then individual shows were assembled from edited sections. Only musical performances were taped with a live audience; a laugh track was added to all other segments.