Word: comical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Measured for scientific credibility, Scully's science ranks below the comic books. Rival "operators," including Variety's Joe Laurie Jr., who reviewed Behind the Flying Saucers, suspect that Scully may be kidding. In any case, his book's quick success is an interesting comment on the public's dazed state of mind toward recent scientific wonders. After accepting atomic energy, radar, etc., presumably the public could swallow almost anything. Why not believe Dr. Gee's saucer-borne midgets flying in from the depths of space...
...even the commercial (for Lucky Strike) got as much welcoming applause as any of the cast. By now, 56-year-old Jack Benny's tightwad, pompous radio personality has become a U.S. institution, and the show's humor lies as much in his familiar character as in comic invention. As always, Benny played the foil for the acid comment of his wife, Mary Livingstone, the booming illiteracy of Bandleader Phil Harris, the naive malevolence of Singer Dennis Day, and the jaundiced animadversions of Eddie Anderson as Rochester, Benny's valet. There were indications that Benny was using...
...Jack Carter Show, a melange of slow jokes and vaudeville turns, and Your Show of Shows, brilliantly staged by Broadway's Max Liebman and reaching a TV high in literacy, talent and theatricality. Stars of Liebman's show are Sid Caesar, TV's best home-grown comic, and tiny Imogene Coca, an ex-nightclub comedienne. Whether playing the part of young marrieds having the boss to dinner, or a fellow and a girl suffering through the false starts and affectations of a date, they bring a satirical accent to familiar American situations. When Caesar and Coca...
Appearing on TV no oftener than once a month, each comic gets more time for preparation of material, two weeks of rehearsal instead of one, and fewer pressure headaches. "It makes particular sense," says Executive Producer Sam Fuller, "because some of these gentlemen are not as young as they used...
...musical No, No, Nanette, sheds a Technicolor tear for the good old days of plus fours, prohibition and the stock-market crash. The story, about a Broadway show, employs nearly every musical-comedy cliche -from romantic misunderstandings between Doris Day and radio's Gordon MacRae to pratfalls by Comic Billy De Wolfe. Every quarter-hour or so there is a big production number...