Word: funnier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BILLY LIAR. Working-class life in Britain inspires a social cipher (Tom Courtenay) to imagine a faster, funnier world where his own word...
...comic novel succeeds if it is funnier than its own dust jacket, and Elliott Baker's A Fine Madness meets this difficult test nicely. It is not likely that the publishers will be sent into receivership by losses suffered making good the guarantee. Yet, for the worst of reasons, it is impossible to praise this likable first novel without hedging...
...Girl Who Came to Supper will make the average theatrical gourmet yearn for the company of the late Monty Woolley. Even in his grave, George S. Kaufman could think up funnier lines than Harry Kurnitz has been able to confect for this musical adaptation of Terence Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince. And Noel Coward could have given Supper some Noel Coward songs, instead of the badly toasted marshmelodies he actually provided for it. This part of Broadway can legitimately be declared a disaster area, except for those involuntary rescue squads, the theater parties, which will keep the show green...
...named Barrie, who dances a wicked deadpan twist. Mad World reaches its nadir with an abortive climax that puts Spencer Tracy and ten comedians atop a fire ladder reeling several stories above the street, presumably on the assumption that eleven men suspended in mid-air will be eleven times funnier than Harold Lloyd used to be. Alas, the law of diminishing returns prevails...
...from golfing one over the fence. He won three Most Valuable Player awards (nobody has won more), and saw his salary climb to $55,000, highest ever for a catcher. But manager of the Yankees? That was like putting Harpo Marx in the White House, only funnier...