Word: capps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humor is where you find it," Al Capp told a Law School Forum audience last night, and then proceeded to say that the funniest thing in America-today is Senator Richard Nixon...
...other members of the forum--Max Shulman and Ira Wallach--disagreed with Capp, and the by-products of the conflict kept a capacity Rindge Tech audience chuckling for two hours...
...Capp said the funniest thing in the thirties was any picture of Calvin Coolidge, claiming that humor was anything people laughed at. Shulman concurred in this definition, pointing out that the cynicism, parody and destruction that characterized the humor of another age were not funny today...
...panel consists of three humorous writers and a radio comedian. The best known to local audiences is Al Capp, who has spoken several times at Law Forums, Freshman Smokers, and Summer School Conferences...
...Capp writes and draws the comic strip "Li'l Abner" and the continuity for the "Abbie 'n Slats" strip. He is a director of the Boston Summer Theatre...