I vaguely remember sort of enjoying this show when it aired, but I was only 5 at the time, and I liked "Hee Haw" then. Despite my extreme youth, I knew "Funny Farm" was a complete rip-off of "Hee Haw", and I knew that Blake Emmons & his white-guy afro were ridiculous.
Ironically, "Hee Haw" was created by two Canadians, Frank Peppiatt & John Aylesworth, who went to the States for the work, when the CBC dragged its heels on renewing their contracts (something for which the Ceeb has been infamous, almost since its inception). "Hee Haw" was deliberately intended to be a country version of "Laugh-In". And it succeeded in this ambition.
It's unknown how Peppiatt & Aylesworth reacted to this hopelessly lame rip-off of their show, by fellow Canadians---if they even knew it existed.
Ironically, "Hee Haw" was created by two Canadians, Frank Peppiatt & John Aylesworth, who went to the States for the work, when the CBC dragged its heels on renewing their contracts (something for which the Ceeb has been infamous, almost since its inception). "Hee Haw" was deliberately intended to be a country version of "Laugh-In". And it succeeded in this ambition.
It's unknown how Peppiatt & Aylesworth reacted to this hopelessly lame rip-off of their show, by fellow Canadians---if they even knew it existed.