A variety show hosted by country music stars Buck Owens and Roy Clark. Set against the loose backdrop of rural Kornfield Kounty, the series features regular comedy skits and country song performances by the cast and top musical guests. Sketches include salutes to random towns, corny one-liners told while standing in front of a wooden fence, and comic dialogue exchanged between barbershop customers.

Hee Haw was an television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. It aired on C...

Country-western music stars Roy Clark and Barbara Mandrell perform together during the taping of a portion of a recent "Hee Haw" show in Nashville, 1978. (AP Photo) In its heyday, Hee Haw was truly a cultural phenomenon. Its down-home humor and focus on country music gave it a special place in the history of variety TV shows. An ever-changing cast of comedians, including Junior Samples, George Lindsey (Goober from the Andy Griffith Show), Gailard Sartain, Minnie Pearl and Arc

Last night I took a little trip to Lexington Kentucky to cover some bands which I am also writing about and I frequently check my Hee Haw message boards. I learned that the Cornfield County gang has lost another Legend as Charlie Farquharson (AKA Don Harron) has died at 90 at his home in Canada.

“Where, oh where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and thought I found true love. You met another and PFFFT you was gawn!!” –– A classic comedy song performed regularly by Gordie Tapp (1922-2016) and Archie Campbell (1914-1987), often with guest stars, on the variety show Hee Haw, which ran for 26 seasons from 1969 to 1997.

A buncha people telling jokes in a cornfield? What else could it be bur HEE HAW! in comic book form from Brian Hughes' Again With the Comi...