Judy Carne (born
Joyce Botterill on April 27, 1939 in
NorthamptonNorthampton is a large market town and local government district in the East Midlands region of England. It is about north-west of London and around south-east of Birmingham, and lies on the River Nene...
,
NorthamptonshireNorthamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census...
,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
) is an
actressAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
best remembered for the phrase "Sock it to me!" on
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-InRowan & Martin's Laugh-In is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968 to May 14, 1973. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and was broadcast over NBC...
. This phrase was actually first used at the end of
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit WheelsMitch Ryder is an American musician who has recorded over two dozen albums in more than four decades as a performer.-Career:...
'
Devil with a Blue Dress, released in the winter of 1966-1967. This was followed up in their next song/45 single, called simply
Sock It to Me, Baby, released in the early spring of 1967.
Judy Carne (born
Joyce Botterill on April 27, 1939 in
NorthamptonNorthampton is a large market town and local government district in the East Midlands region of England. It is about north-west of London and around south-east of Birmingham, and lies on the River Nene...
,
NorthamptonshireNorthamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census...
,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
) is an
actressAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
best remembered for the phrase "Sock it to me!" on
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-InRowan & Martin's Laugh-In is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968 to May 14, 1973. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and was broadcast over NBC...
. This phrase was actually first used at the end of
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit WheelsMitch Ryder is an American musician who has recorded over two dozen albums in more than four decades as a performer.-Career:...
'
Devil with a Blue Dress, released in the winter of 1966-1967. This was followed up in their next song/45 single, called simply
Sock It to Me, Baby, released in the early spring of 1967.
Laugh-In began as a series in January 1968, after a highly popular 1967 special.
Carne moved to the
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in the early 1960s. Her first regular role was on a sitcom called
Fair ExchangeFair Exchange was a television comedy that ran from 1962 to 1963 on CBS. It starred Eddie Foy, Jr. and Audrey Christie. The show made a name for Judy Carne, who later appeared with Pete Duel on ABC's Love on a Rooftop and then on NBC's Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.The show replaced Rod Serling's The...
, in which she played an English teenager who goes to the United States to live with an American family whose daughter (played by
Lynn LoringLynn Loring is an American actress and producer.She first started acting at the age of seven, playing the role of Patti Barron on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow. She played the role until 1961, when she graduated from high school and explored other opportunities...
) has gone to live in England. That was followed by
The Baileys of BalboaThe Baileys of Balboa is an American sitcom that appeared on CBS for the 1964-1965 season. The series lasted for only one season , for twenty-six episodes. The show was directed by Gary Nelson and Bob Sweeney...
(1964) and then she had an assisting role to
Pete DuelPete Duel was an American actor, best known for his role in the television series Alias Smith and Jones.-Early life:...
in
Love on a RooftopLove on a Rooftop is an American sitcom about a newlywed couple, Dave and Julie Willis, and their humorous struggles to survive in San Francisco on Dave’s apprentice architect's salary of $85.37 a week...
(1966).
It was on
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-InRowan & Martin's Laugh-In is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968 to May 14, 1973. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and was broadcast over NBC...
(1968–1973) that Carne rose to stardom. Her most popular routine ended with her saying "Sock it to me!", at which point she was doused with water or in some other way assaulted. Carne was on the series for the first two seasons (1968–1969) but made occasional appearances during the 1969–70 season. Her career faltered after she left the show.
Laugh-In producer
George SchlatterGeorge Schlatter is an Emmy-winning American television producer and director, best known for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and founder of the American Comedy Awards....
blamed her for breaking up the
Laugh-In "family."
Carne was married to actor
Burt ReynoldsBurton Leon "Burt" Reynolds, Jr. is an American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Paul "Wrecking" Crewe in The Longest Yard, Coach Nate Scarborough in the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard, Bo 'Bandit' Darville in Smokey and the Bandit, J.J...
for two years (1963–1965) and producer Robert Bergman for one (1970–1971).
Carne developed drug dependency starting with
marijuanaCannabisalso known as marijuana or marihuana, and ganja , among many other namesrefers to any number of preparations of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug...
and eventually became a
heroinHeroin, or diacetylmorphine , also known as diamorphine , is a semi-synthetic opioid drug synthesized from morphine, a derivative of the opium poppy. It is the 3,6-diacetyl ester of morphine...
addict. She had a near-fatal automobile accident in 1978 that broke her neck. She was in traction for about three months. On October 22 of the same year, she was arrested at
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Gatwick Airport. Her autobiography,
Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside (1984), chronicled her difficulties.
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