Word: funnier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ingredients were familiar: Morgan burlesquing high-flown documentaries; Morgan being badgered by bustling stooges. Biggest surprise was Morgan's respectful treatment of his sponsor and his super-generous mention (96 times) of the sponsor's name and products. As a reformed bad boy, Morgan is not necessarily funnier than before, but he might last longer...
...York's borsch circuit to become a top Broadway and Hollywood comic, was riding his greatest triumph: he was the U.S. traveling salesman who had won the heart of Britannia. It was not just an entertainer's hit; visiting Americans thought that he had been funnier before. By simply being his uninhibited self, he somehow embodied for Britons all that was likable about the U.S., and all that was reassuring to grey socialist Britain...
...enough to become a soldier, and Panisse is on his death-bed. That is the way things are as Marcel Pagnol begins "Cesar," the last part of his celebrated French trilogy of the Marsailles waterfront folks. "Marius" and "Fanny," the other two films dealing with the people, were perhaps funnier, for "Cesar" is more concerned with plot and its happy ending...
...doing about the same things and in the same way. That about sums up the difference in the talents of Miss Lillie and Mr. Haley. Mr. Haley does very well for himself in his sketches, as I have said, but Miss Lillie can't help but grow funnier with familiarity. She is obviously more than a comedienne...
...office at the time because no one could wait until they had made a funny-type picture with this jovial cat and Katherine Hepburn. The result has recently been exhumed under the eyebrow-raising title of "Bringing Up Baby"--"Baby" being this sweet tempered kitty. It seemed a lot funnier at the age of twelve...