Word: comical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speaker break in and say they have talked enough. All the while, an impish man uses a video camera to record the proceedings and simultaneously project them onto a screen at center stage. The cameraman narrates a "documentary" of random black-and-white footage of Sicily, reaching a comic apogee by intoning about Gestalt psychology as the film shows pigs being slaughtered...
BROADWAY BOUND Jokemeister Neil Simon has proved himself an artist in the trilogy that began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues. He reaches a pinnacle in this comic yet unflinching reflection on his parents' troubled marriage and the psychic origins of his own career...
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS Sketching on his broadest canvas, Woody Allen creates a rendering of comic heartbreak and rebirth among Manhattan's tarnished glitterati...
...operetta's bibulous humor depends on a generous tolerance for drunk jokes, but these times do not find inebriation quite as amusing as formerly. Further, Director Schenk's maladroit adaptation of the libretto is not particularly funny, although his appearance as Frosch, the tipsy jailer, has a couple of comic moments amid the prevailing tedium. But Die Fledermaus should soar and sparkle, not merely be endured...
Marriage and alimony jokes have all but become fixtures of his Tonight show monologue, but no kidding, folks, Johnny Carson, 61, is serious about getting married a fourth time. The bean-pole comic's flacks let it be known last week that he has become engaged to Alex Maas, a blond beauty in her mid-30s who has been his live-in for the past year and a half. Carson met Maas on the beach near his Malibu home. No date has been set for the wedding. It is understandable if Carson is in no hurry to retie the knot...