Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most pretentious and in many ways the funniest burlesque is "The True Story of the Herrin Massacre" as recounted by Bruce Blithers. This blithe gentleman attributes the disaster to an error of philology...
Samuel Goldwyn (real name, Samuel Goldfish): "The George H. Doran Co. published a book, Behind the Scenes, written by me. One John Anderson, a critic, wrote as follows in the Literary Review: 'Goldwyn has written one of the funniest books of the season, presumably without intending it.' Anderson cited the following as a particularly fine example of unconscious humor: 'If you can picture a flowering arbour and then picture the subsequent surprise of finding inside of it a perfectly good dynamo you will have conceived the full force of Miss [Geraldine] Farrar's personality. . . . Indeed the figure with which...
...NERVOUS WRECK?The custard pie comedy of the current play bill. Funniest farce in five years...
...Boston is enough to give the funniest comedian acute melancholia...
...believe that they can establish by the visit the supremacy of France across the orchestra and footlights. This they cannot do unless they call into consultation American musical comedy doctors. America has had the most and the tiredest business men for too many years not to have developed the funniest comedians, the loudest and fastest jazz and the most beautiful race of chorus girls that the world has ever seen...