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...Mons Herbert, anyway? Four actors act and sing the roles of misnamed, star-crossed lovers and their experience with a flend in search of a potato salad recipe. The playing out of these situations takes us through a beauty contest for cows, the trauma of a lost barometer, a Firesign Theatre-type game show called "Justify Your Existence" and a Kafkaesque IQ test. The show does have a plot, however disguised it is in these absurd digressions...
Midnite Fri & Sat: Firesign Theatre's Zachariah
...movement and sticks to it: it works better. But her grandmotherly, shivering voice begins to drone after a while. Her husband's voice on the other hand, takes on a detached, radio-announcer tone that parodies itself and is perfect for absurdity. He sounds like a voice from the Firesign Theater--which at its best approaches an absurdist theater of the seventies...
...juxtaposes anachronistic speech with Brooklyn slang. and intersperses flowery phrasings with punchy and often vile lines. The comedy is similar to the Firesign Theatre's Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers. Like the Firesign Theatre, the best of Allen's humor comes down to playing with words...
...Leave 'Em, this was a gentle story about some young people who worked in a department store?two sisters and the youth they were competing for. It has been made into a satisfactory program picture that was advertised at some houses last week without a title in the firesign, being indicated simply as "Clara Bow's Latest." The Saturday Night Kid is a better product than such emphasis on its star's drawing-power seems to imply. Although the plot is composed of such familiar elements as one sister's sacrifices for another who repays her by stealing her clothes...