Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aside from the comic-strip troops of Al Capp's Lower Slobbovia or the G.I.s who stumble through maneuvers at Camp Swampy with Beetle Bailey, the 70,000-man army of The Netherlands is probably the raunchiest-looking fighting force in the world. In startling contrast to the red-jacketed guardsmen who stand stiffly at attention outside Buckingham Palace, the honor guards in front of the royal palace on the Dam Square in Amsterdam usually have unkempt uniforms, straggly beards and lank shoulder-length hair. In fact, they look more like refugees from a rock group than members...
...comedy of You Can't Take It with You with the door-slamming wackiness of Feydeau's geometrically composed bedroom-chases-cum-orgies. Unfortunately, Schisgal's characters are as charmless as unthreaded spools, and he has yet to learn the primal lesson of the Feydeau farce: comic tension depends on who is hiding behind the door rather than who breezes casually through...
While Lasky and Little are tangy with comic flavor, Schisgal's shining angel for 1975 is Dustin Hoffman, making his debut as a director. Moving 18 actors with the agility of an Osterizer, Hoffman proves that he is only a laugh-beat away from the comedic ingenuity Of Mike Nichols...
Brooks' comedy career began on the schoolyard circuit-a bright, bookish, undersized Brooklyn kid who learned fast that he could keep bigger boys at bay by making them laugh. In his early teens he was touring Catskills resorts as a stand-up comic and drummer. At 30 he was making $2,500 a week writing Your Show of Shows with his old Catskills pal Comedian Sid Caesar...
...punch lines can be seen coming a mile away. Good and bad gags are pushed indiscriminately. He is often tasteless-certainly he has a four-year-old's overestimation of the comic possibilities in the word doodoo. But when he is good he is splendid, and he is the only commercial American film maker today (with the occasional exception of Woody Allen) working in the low-comedy, slapstick tradition of Buster Keaton and the Marx brothers...