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...this year. But that alone would hardly be enough to draw such a motley assortment of celebrities to the show for $210 per appearance. What appeals is the program's extraordinary ambiance: it has an artful spontaneity, a kind of controlled insanity, emerging from a cascade of crazy cartoon ideas. In yet another TV season of pale copies, Laugh-In is unique. It features no swiveling chorus lines, no tuxedoed crooners. Just those quick flashes of visual and verbal comedy, tumbling pell-mell from the opening straight through the commercials till the NBC peacock turns tail. Often the first...
While some viewers complain that Laugh-In goes too far, it is perhaps because TV went nowhere for so long. Until a few years ago, it was standard practice on cartoon shows to depict cows without udders. Heavy breathing was edited out of TV movies, "suggestive positions" out of wrestling films. Kisses were limited to a few seconds, and terms relating to childbirth were forbidden. Not even a pause was pregnant. Even today, TV censors are still fairly nervous. Not long ago, says Comic Godfrey Cambridge, a National Educational Television censor refused to permit Cambridge to say "homosexual." When...
...famous World War II cartoon by Bill Mauldin, an Army officer asked the same question as he gazed upon a spectacular vista...
...blunt Nixon's attacks on the crime issue, Humphrey argues that police and the courts must receive more material assistance in doing their jobs. He also argues that the problem is basically social, not a matter of higher conviction rates. He likens Nixon to Al Capp's cartoon cop, Fearless Fosdick, accusing him of "playing loose with law and order." Humphrey, in fact, seems determined to personalize the campaign as much as possible by drawing Nixon into direct combat. Last week he charged Nixon with "demagoguery," declaring: "The country doesn't need a wiggler and wobbler...
Grandville's caricatures, nonetheless, seem as pointed and contemporary as Levine's at their best. For a review about the cult of beauty in art, Grandville contributed a cartoon of a male au dience-literally all eyes-ogling a beauteous young thing in the front row of the grand tier. A review on Polish philosophy featured a huge bellows all but blowing people off the street with an endless stream of wind. For two books about Republicanism, there was a stout, complacent elephant in morning coat. The review of John Hersey's Algiers Motel Incident produced...