Word: comics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Away from the cameras, Chase looks more like a laid-back graduate student than a TV star. His shirt is rumpled, his hair unruly and his eyes filled with mischief. Even in casual conversation, he is a shameless put-on artist, a comic con man negotiating for a laugh. If he wanted, Chevy Chase could probably sell aluminum siding to a roaming wagonload of gypsies...
Another of Chase's idols was Comedian Ernie Kovacs, the 1950s master of surrealism whose shows are finally being rebroadcast in a series now on public television. Says Saturday Night producer Lome Michaels: "Kovacs was the consummate television comic, and Chevy has that same sense of how to use the medium. I don't think he'll ever leave it completely." Chase does plan to limit his own tube time, hinting at one reason for abandoning his weekly act on SN: "I certainly don't want to get so overexposed on TV that people...
...case, no groundswell of public enthusiasm can yet be detected. The Boston Globe did get a lot of mail on the energy plan, most of it favorable -almost as many letters as poured in last November when it temporarily dropped the popular Doonesbury comic strip. But on Capitol Hill, Congressmen almost unanimously described their energy mail as light to moderate. "It's an absolute drop in the bucket compared with saccharin," said Melody Miller, a Ted Kennedy aide...
...Gilliam finds it impossible to sustain, let alone develop anything like a consistent comic tone. In the end, the director is mostly making dour social commentary on the society he invented. He is never able to connect it either with our own or with the historical period that apparently inspired...
...demarcation point became clear this Sunday when the Class Day selection committee chose Robert Ullman's speech, originally submitted for the comic Ivy Oration, as the winner of the serious Harvard oration competition. Ullman is revising his speech, which the Class Day committee members described as "poignant." But he says that the selection makes the quality of his humor a little suspect. He claims that his topic, the story of Morton Zyzford, a real cypher who can't come to terms with Harvard, has a serious message about the importance of success. The overall tone will stay light, he says...