Word: camping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just terrible/terrible. A lot of the material would have seemed dated in New Jersey burlesque during Prohibition. Can they really mean it-using this sort of stuff on TV in 1968? Laugh-In's producers know bad jokes when they use them. There is an element of camp and reverse sophistication in this, reminiscent of making a cult of Charlie Chan movies and Captain Marvel comic books. Besides, the outrageous jokes are thrown into the machinery of the show to create contrast and surprise, and to give viewers a chance to catch up with some fast, good jokes that...
...zany Marx Brothers ideas, struck the comics as just the man who could help them put their show together. And together, they worked up their format. They tried several titles: Put On, The Wacky World of Now, On the Funny Side of Life, Straight Up and Turn Left, High Camp. Then they hit on Laugh-In and pitched the show to the networks...
...editors of the Brown Daily Herald, the Columbia Spectator and the CRIMSON refused to fall into the Yale camp. Only one editor, from the Daily Pennsylvania, put Harvard into the first division; he saw John Yovicsin's boys finishing second...
...grandson of railroad workers in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, Pleasence developed his first yen for acting after his mother had enrolled him in speaking classes. He was an R.A.F. wireless operator in World War II, was shot down, and spent a year in a German prison camp. After some postwar repertory and lots of television, he was about to sign a film contract when he read the script of The Caretaker. The play paid him ?10 a week at London's Arts Theater Club; it proved such a hit that it moved to a larger commercial house and ran for more...
...serious and it's not serious." You understand? Of course. This kind of consciousness has produced a lot of the art of our time, playful art as I have called it. It includes Camp to start with though it is greater than Camp. It includes Pop Art. ("Why that looks like a picture of a soup can, Karen." "Well it is a picture of a soup can." "Oh.") But it is greater than Pop Art. Richard Lester is in the tradition. Bob Dylan is part of it; the Bob Dylan that Joan Baez called the Dada King. (Everybody Must...