This gold-finished award with wood base was given out on Laugh-In, by hosts Dan Rowan & Dick Martin. Awarded for the dumbest news item of the week and recipients included then L.A. Chief of Police, Ed Davis, for suggesting "gallows" be put in all airports for the hijackers so they could be hung on the spot when caught (actually not such a dumb idea in retrospect), and conservative William F. Buckley for his philosophy, "Never clarify tomorrow, what you can obscure today." The Pentagon won five times. NRMT.