Word: funnier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...share of memorably wacky lines. "I have to think of something quick," moans Woody, playing the court jester in a demented medieval allegory. "The Renaissance will soon be here and we'll all be painting." But overall it is just Woody marking time and being merely a little funnier than, say, Sex and the Single Girl...
OTHER SCENES, perhaps funnier, evoke laughs because they--and the audience's sensibilities--ignore significant aspects of the issues at hand. For all Shapiro's revelations on the underlying sexual message of commercial television, he exploits women for laughs just the way advertisers exploit women for sales. It is likely that the audience, laughing at a newsclip of a press conference at which the President fondles Shapiro, in drag, as India's woman prime minister, felt subconsciously self-satisfied at having not been offended by Groove Tube 2's breach of conventional taste. It is not likely they would have...
Mike: Okay. So he entertained the troops. But that doesn't make him funnier...
...second thought, Such Good Friends might have worked better the other way. Preminger is usually funnier -remember Hurry Sundown?-when he's trying to be serious...
...Charlie Brown, Steve Harris keeps his "failure face" determinedly straight throughout the show, his shlemiel personality becomes more endearing the more he gets dumped upon. Like master, like dog. It would be hard to imagine a funnier and more appropriate piece of casting than Bill Nable's Snoopy. Not only does Nabel manage to look like a human facsimile of the darling dog, but he also has the gestures down pat, even to keeping his teeth bared while asleep. He surpasses even his master in over-sensitivity and sentimentality, and becomes, with his R.A.F. accent and adventure fantasies, the most...