Word: funnier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casualness that often lets the show get by as a friendly get-together rather than a plausible dramatic situation. The intital comedy, evolving around a buzzing airplane, establishes Andy Rosann's Bill as the comic of the group-the man who creates the funniest gags, and makes the even funnier gestures. Gradually the rest of the cookout's participants warm up to Bill's level with Cindy Cardon's Pat and Lorenzo Mariani's Howard forming a chilling team of innocence and brutality...
Having even less hint of a purpose than most of Gilbert's plots makes Ruddigore not just more consistent but consistently funnier and better humored (since Gilbert generally mistook seriousness for irritability) than it would be otherwise. And it lets almost everything in the Agassiz production work well, from Peter Kellogg's direction of the presumably mousy chorus of professional bridesmaids as though they were so many mice to a somewhat shabby-looking first-act set whose slightly bedraggled ocean seems cheerfully appropriate to everything else...
...easy to forget that a lot of the old comedians' gags did not quite come off either. Their movies, too, might have been even funnier had their scripts been edited more rigorously and directed more artfully instead of being produced on the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink principle of comedy. Like its many raucous predecessors, Blazing Saddles is a thing of bits and bits-some good, some awful-pinned to a story line that sags like a tenement clothesline. The movie tends to improve in the retelling, as memory edits out ineptitudes, the better to dwell on moments...
...Hollywood Cartoon, a current retrospective series at the New York Cultural Center, Jones' body of work is uniquely rich, subtle and inventive. His cartoons compare favorably in their vividness and variety with the best work from the Disney Studios. Perhaps they are not as innovative, but they are funnier, madder, certainly more deeply and consistently personal...
Some of this may be funnier than the networks intended, but if not, the viewer can try one of the new sitcoms. Several comedy half-hours have jumped aboard Archie Bunker's blue-collar bus−one, NBC's Lotsa Luck, quite literally. The show stars Dom DeLuise as an ex-bus driver promoted to clerk in the lost-and-found department. (In its first episode last week, Lotsa Luck stretched Bunker bluntness into common vulgarity with a plot that revolved entirely around a purple-lidded, tangerine-colored toilet.) Just as DeLuise contends with his crotchety/lazy/dumb family relations...