Word: funnier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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REMEMBER WHEN you told your first dirty joke? How you sort of giggled and looked nervous because you weren't quite sure if you understood what you were saying? And then you had this feeling that what you were doing wasn't right, but that made the joke even funnier. This season's first Harvard Summer Theater production, Cloud 9, is a lot like that first dirty joke...
What makes this line even funnier than it sounds is that the speaker is 17- year-old Paul Stephens (Christopher Collet); that his coconspirator, Jenny, is played by a picture of innocence named Cynthia Nixon; that the exchange takes place at a high school science fair, where the competing projects involve things like soap bubbles and gerbils--and that they really do have an A-bomb in her auto...
...program may not have broken as much new ground as Kovacs did, and wonderful characters like the Coneheads or Belushi's demented samurai may not have been any funnier, finally, than anyone on Your Show of Shows, but this book gives full measure to the size and the weight of S.N.L.'s substantial legacy. If the show was in danger of going down in history as a farm team for Hollywood, Hill and Weingrad have righted that misconception. S.N.L. was bodacious and irreverent, brazen enough to make everything else on the networks seem irrelevant. If Michaels' current edition of S.N.L...
...time out. "I feel most confident dancing," he admits, "though I've grown more comfortable acting in the past few years." Crystal, 38, is also in unfamiliar territory; this is his first movie after moving on from Saturday Night Live. Says he: "I keep asking Gregory if I'm funnier than Baryshnikov...
...editor Patty Simcox with similar reckless abandon. Missy Dubroff and Michael Kelley also shine in supporting roles as clique-members Frenchy and Roger. As for the play itself, well, suffice it to say that there are few deep philosophical insights. But the script flows well and is a lot funnier than one might think, remembering the 1978 movie...