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With probably the biggest beef of all, Ed Wynn ("The Perfect Fool") argues that in 1913 he originated Milton's whole format of introducing all the acts and playing a buffoon in each of them. While displaying an old scrapbook of his jokes, Milton was recently asked to explain a page headed: "Ed Wynn Jokes." Said he: "Those are some jokes Ed Wynn once gave me." Says Wynn in Hollywood: "I never gave him any jokes, nor did I give him permission to steal my life's work...
...more pleasant things about Morgan is that he is unlike other radio comedians who seem to aim their programs at the category Life forgot--the no-brows. He eschews the Wilshire Boulevard school of humor, where in an ether buffoon sends a studio audience into unrestrained hysterics at the mere mention of a name such as "Wilshire Boulevard" of "La Brea tarpits." Nor does he open closet doors to the accompanyment of a eacophony of sound effects. If he is going to insult somebody he doesn't call him "baldy...
...most savage and stinging easterly squall. For 52 filibustering hours in a turbulent Chamber of Deputies, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists and Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists tried to block Premier Alcide de Gas-peri's request for permission to accept the Western invitation. "You buffoon! You infamous one!" screamed Togliatti at De Gasperi. Mass fist fights spotted the debate. Infuriated Communists brandished chairs, hurled desk drawers. One partisan jumped across four benches, tramped on the heads of his comrades as he dived viciously into the fray. Outside, in the streets of Rome and other cities, Marxists...
...worst offenders were the Western clowns. The article specifically attacked the famed Fratellinis, "reactionary and bourgeois [clowns] and classical exponents of buffoon games." A Russian critic who recently praised them was severely taken to task for "not revealing the ideological character of Western clownism...
This reviewer always felt that Bob Hope was a better buffoon than rapid fire gagster. Apparently Director McLeod thought the same thing because he has Hope superbly overplaying his part. He does the commonplace with a flourish and the spectacular by mistake. He is at his best when he pulls the wrong tooth and when he swaggers around town under the impression he is a dead shot...