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{{Infobox television
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| image = We Have Ways of Making You Laugh title with Frank Muir.jpg
| caption = title screen with host [[Frank Muir]]
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| genre = [[Comedy]]
| creator =
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| writer =
| director = Bill Turner
| creative_director =
| presenter = [[Frank Muir]]
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| country = UK
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| num_episodes = 12 (12 unaired)
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| producer = [[Humphrey Barclay]]
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| company = [[London Weekend Television]]
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| channel = [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]
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| first_aired = {{Start date|1968|08|02|df=y}}
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'''''We Have Ways of Making You Laugh''''' is a [[Television comedy|comedic]] television series produced by [[Humphrey Barclay]] and directed by Bill Turner for [[London Weekend Television]].<ref name="yearbook">{{Citation
| issue = 38
| pages = 129
| year = 1969
| publisher = Carson & Comerford Ltd.
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=fO4-AQAAIAAJ&q=%22We+Have+Ways+of+Making+You+Laugh%22
| title = The Stage Year Book
| quote = '''We Have Ways of Making You Laugh''' with Frank Muir, Kenneth Cope, Dick Vosburgh. ''Prod'' Humphrey Barclay. ''Dir'' Bill Turner. ''London Weekend''
}}</ref>
[[Frank Muir]] hosted the show.<ref name="barfe">
{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHbFLkrXezMC&q=%22We+Have+Ways+of+Making+You+Laugh%22&pg=PT153
|title=Turned Out Nice Again: The Story of British Light Entertainment
|publisher= Atlantic Books Ltd.
|author=Louis Barfe
|year=2013
| pages=
|isbn=978-1848877573
|quote=The launch night, on Friday 2 August 1968, was to kick off with ''We Have Ways Of Making You Laugh'', a live comedy show hosted by Muir himself [...] nobody transmitted the first ''We Have Ways Of Making You Laugh''. Ongoing industrial action [...] meant that screens went blank after only fifteen seconds. The performers were allowed to remain oblivious and carry on [...]
}}</ref>
It featured [[Kenneth Cope]],<ref name="yearbook"/> [[Eric Idle]] and [[Katherine Whitehorn]], with music and writing by [[Benny Green (saxophonist)|Benny Green]]. The theme music was composed by [[Don Partridge]] and played in his 'one-man-band' style.
[[Dick Vosburgh]] prepared material spoofing [[Jimmy Young (disc jockey)|Jimmy Young]] for the show.
[[Terry Gilliam]] created animations using [[cutout animation|cut-outs]], a technique he later used in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''.<ref name="interviews">
{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8eDE0hce0kEC&pg=PA71
|title=Terry Gilliam: Interviews
|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi
|author=David Sterritt and Lucille Rhodes
|year=2004 | pages=71–73
|isbn=1578066247
|quote=[...] Humphrey went to London Weekend Television, [...] and he dragged me along with Eric Idle. There was a group [...] consisting of Benny Green, who was a jazzman and a good writer; Katherine Whitehorn, [...] [and] Dick Vosburgh, who was a great comedy writer. [...] Vosburgh had spent three months taping [...] Jimmy Young's radio show. [...] I suggested that I do an animated film. [...] the only way to work on that budget in that amount of time was to do cut-outs [...] So when it came later to doing Python [...] I didn't have the patience to draw [...] I just started cutting out the things I liked [...]
}}</ref> The series was [[Live television|live]]. Its debut broadcast was scheduled for 2 August 1968. Although the cast performed, only the first 15 seconds of the first show were transmitted, due to an [[industrial action]]<ref name="barfe"/> (other, prerecorded programming was unaffected by the labour dispute).<ref name="frost">
{{cite book
|title=An Autobiography: From congregations to audiences
|publisher=HarperCollins
|author=David Frost
|year=1993
|pages=364
|isbn=9780002150132
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJ9kAAAAMAAJ&q="We+Have+Ways+of+Making+You+Laugh"
|quote=So far, we gradually learned, the strike was not continuous, but selective. Recorded programmes were still getting on the air, but live programmes like ''We Have Ways of Making You Laugh'' were not.}}</ref>
There are no known recordings of its 12 episodes.<ref>[http://lostshows.com/default.aspx?programme=82b79e44-ae9f-45bb-ab5c-e292b137861f "Missing or incomplete episodes for programme ''We Have Ways of Making You Laugh''], lostshows.com</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Monty Python}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|296455}}
*[http://www.tv.com/shows/we-have-ways-of-making-you-laugh/ tv.com listing]

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[[Category:London Weekend Television shows]]
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