Word: comically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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School for Wives is the first in Moliere's trilogy of comic masterpieces. It opens with the imminent marriage of Arnolphe (Eric Oleson), an arrogant country squire and "raving paranoid." Obsessed with a fear of being ridiculed in his choice of a wife, Arnolphe has carefully planned his marriage over many years. He took charge of a young peasant girl, Agnes (Katherine Robin), and raised her just as he wished--innocent and stupid, a girl who thinks "children are begotten through the ear." Now that she's reached marriageable age, he's brought her to a secluded manor near...
...Michaels, Lee Thomson makes Suite Dreams at least somewhat endurable. Michaels believes he's being given a call girl by his brother Harry (Chris Winn) for a present, but instead gets caught in the typical "girl-in-the-bed, wife-knocking-on-the-door" scenario. Thomsen's natural comic delivery and sustained energy save the scene and much of the rest of the production...
Although she was named "Class Clown" at Brookline High School in 1967, Clapprood said she has no special comic qualifications. "I'll talk about a lot of inside political stuff, and especially what it's like for a woman working with all these male chauvinist pigs," she said...
...Carson's stage. Goldthwait did have one Tonight appearance a year ago, when Joan Rivers was guest host, and some of his offbeat contemporaries can occasionally be seen in such hipper network venues as Late Night with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live. But increasingly, the showcase for innovative comic talent is cable, the Off-Broadway of TV comedy...
...with hapless autobiographical asides. "I lost my job," he whimpers. "No, wait. I didn't really lose my job. I mean, I know where my job is still. It's just when I go there, there's this new guy doing it." Underneath the shrieks and stammers, a shrewd comic mind is percolating...