“Laugh-In” creator George Schlatter’s caller memoir, “Still Laughing: A Life Successful Comedy,” recounts his legendary amusement concern vocation encompassing music, nightclubs — and, Astir notably, television.

“I support saying this is my archetypal publication — and adjacent twelvemonth I’m going to work different one,” Schlatter joked to The Post successful a wide-ranging interrogation astir “Still Laughing,” retired July 11 (The Unnamed Press). “They were aft maine to archer radical astir my agelong and illustrious past … truthful I sat down successful the bureau and I talked into a instrumentality and I talked and talked and flashed backmost connected a batch of memories — immoderate of them much colorful than others.”

In “Still Laughing” (“as told to” writer/producer Jon Macks), Schlatter regales readers with stories from his 70-plus-year vocation successful the limelight, including his stint managing Ciro’s nightclub successful Hollywood to his years successful television, producing 5 episodes of “The Judy Garland Show” (1963-64 connected CBS) and famously creating “Laugh-In,” the hugely fashionable and groundbreaking quick-hit/groovy/topical sketch-comedy bid that aired connected NBC from 1968-73 and launched Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin, among others, into stardom. (Tomlin wrote the Foreword and Hawn the Afterword for “Still Laughing.”)

Schlatter, 93, who’s been joined to histrion Jolene Brand for 67 years, reminisced with america astir his beingness and career.

Is determination immoderate peculiar play of your vocation that you retrieve much fondly?

When I deliberation backmost astir it, it’s a bid of adventures and misadventures, takes and mistakes. I can’t retrieve immoderate favourite [period] but immoderate it was it was aft I joined Jolene. Until past I worked astatine Ciro’s, the Frontier [hotel] successful Vegas, and immoderate of that was colorful … but determination are moments successful my illustrious, suspicious past that are amended near not enactment successful a book. I did cognize a batch of precise colorful people, and I survived those relationships. I recognize that different than Dick Van Dyke, Norman Lear and Mel Brooks, that’s beauteous overmuch each that’s near [from the era]. So present I tin accidental anything, and who tin accidental I’m not telling the truth? Everybody I speech astir is astir apt dormant by now.

Talk a small astir Judy Garland.

My narration with Judy Garland was unsocial due to the fact that she was a precise special, precise volatile idiosyncratic and I had a batch of adventures with her — which don’t dependable similar immoderate “Over the Rainbow” descriptions of her. She was not arsenic hard arsenic radical said but she was an adventure. Working with Judy was unsafe and fun. I got by with her the aforesaid mode I got by with Frank Sinatra — I made her laugh. And if you could marque Judy laugh, you broke that coil of hostility that built up astir her.

I wanted to bash [‘The Judy Garland Show’] truthful overmuch but I didn’t privation to conscionable her due to the fact that I didn’t cognize however to audition for Judy Garland. I was hired earlier I met her. My archetypal gathering with Judy was interesting; I didn’t know what to say; she had conscionable arrived and determination she was, this tiny, tiny small person, truthful I said, “I don’t cognize what you mightiness person heard astir me, but there’s nary information to the rumor that I’m difficult” and she looked astatine maine and said, “You’re difficult?” And I said, “See, adjacent you’ve heard astir it!” After that we went retired and consumed a batch of Blue Nun Liebfraumilch.

How did “Laugh-In” start?

Goldie, Lily … each those radical came into my beingness benignant of by accident. NBC had thing to enactment connected astatine 8 o’clock Monday night; it was a catastrophe clip play due to the fact that it was other “Here’s Lucy” and “Gunsmoke.” So I went successful and said, “I’ll springiness you a show” and I had a postulation of each these young quality radical — Artie Johnson, Judy Carne, Goldie, Lily, Jo Anne Worley — and I enactment them successful the show. And due to the fact that of my ain minimal attraction span, we started putting bits and pieces unneurotic utilizing the caller editing techniques that were lone conscionable discovered … we could edit those small pieces into the amusement — immoderate of them were five, 10, 20 seconds — and that’s however we got by with immoderate things. We would accidental thing and earlier the web and censors figured retired what we said, we were saying thing other — and by past it was excessively precocious to halt it. It wasn’t obscene, it wasn’t soiled — it was conscionable bawdy. The velocity [of the show] gave it a feeling of escapade and danger.

Is it existent that Frank Sinatra was truthful mercurial?

When you perceive the stories astir Sinatra, you ideate helium was similar 9 feet gangly and had fangs. He was a tiny man, and the enormity of that endowment and the magic of his show made radical emotion him. However, dealing with his endowment … well, that required an affectional and intelligence equilibrium which was occasionally a spot elusive. But God helium was fun. I met him erstwhile I was precise young and helium looked astatine maine and said, “I person ties older than this guy.” I could beauteous overmuch get Frank to bash anything because I could marque him laughter and it broke that tension. Sinatra would amusement up astatine “Laugh-In” and bash six oregon 8 one-liners. It was unheard-of for Sinatra to beryllium doing jokes, but it worked.

You speech astir Ernie Kovacs successful the book.

Jolene met Ernie, who perfectly fell successful emotion with her. Today radical perceive astir Ernie Kovacs but I’m not excessively definite they’ve experienced him. I had large amusive with Ernie. My full beingness was punchlines; everything had to person a punchline oregon a rimshot and Ernie and I would reason endlessly astir information helium that ne'er had punchlines. Ernie called maine 1 nighttime astatine 10 o’clock and said, “You gotta travel to the studio,” truthful I spell implicit to ABC and he’s determination with Jolene. There’s a car raised up connected the stage; Ernie puts his manus connected the fender and the car goes done the floor. He said to me, “Now, is that a punchline?”

It was conscionable ocular candy and I loved him.