Word: buffoon
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...fairly wise man once stated the difference between a comedian and a mere buffoon--the comic's humor is methodically pointed while the buffoon will do anything, to provoke a laugh, usually with little success. All this leads up to the thesis that after months of waving his lance through the air with little purpose, Lampy has finally found a good, solid chunk of meat to pierce. The result of his galloping attack on the movie industry is by no means a brilliant satire; yet it is well above the usual Lampoon fare and, on the whole, an amusing collection...
...Farouk, after all, more than a royal buffoon? The U.S. has good reason to hope that he is. Farouk may turn out to be the decisive figure in one of the world's decisive areas...
Died. François Fratellini, 72, worldfamed clown of Paris' Medrano arena, leaving his brother Albert as the only survivor of the Three Fratellinis, who kept a generation of Europeans laughing, drew a 1949 boo from the U.S.S.R. ("reactionary . . . bourgeois . . . classical exponents of buffoon games"); of cancer; in Le Perreux, France...
...Timeless Buffoon Durante had a superb foil in the Metropolitan Opera's strapping Wagnerian Soprano, Helen Traubel. From his first baffled exclamation at seeing her in Brünnhilde's armor ("Holy smoke, she's been drafted!"), through a passage from Die Walküre (in which Durante was a voiceless, baffled Siegmund), to his piteous attempts to pin a corsage on her coat of mail, Durante brilliantly played the role of a frustrated longhair...
Hypothetical Cinch. On the other hand, Casey Stengel, 57, for years baseball's No. 1 buffoon, had stopped clowning. He had not been thrown out of a game all season. When his star, Joe DiMaggio, was counted out with a sore heel before the season opened, Casey camouflaged his fears. A knowing wink was all anybody got out of him though Casey knew least of anybody what he was winking about...