Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carroll's shows have long held the record for borderline humor. In Comedian Berle is to be found the acme of hysterical vulgarity. His funniest printable jape is introducing the audience to Jim Londos. and then finding that he has mistaken an unknown lady in the third row. for the onetime champion wrestler (see p. 22). While one part of the audience blushes and the other part guffaws. Comedian Berle proceeds to imitate a person of uncertain gender, quip about the show girls' fundaments, shout depraved announcements into a loudspeaker. Less mad than Jimmy Durante, less subtle than...
...whose mere presence is almost sufficient to reveal the twin's true identity. It becomes the duty of this ne'er-do-well to recover a check from the blackmailers and Erwin does it with such a comical combination of timidity and guile that it is the funniest sequence in the picture. Meanwhile, detectives who have been studying the misdeeds of the dead twin come to apprehend the live one. A motor boat chase (with sirens, which are probably the most important single contribution of sound to the cinema) serves to drench the protagonists and clear up their...
...Music slows up toward the end by the sheer weight of its extravagance in a courtroom scene in the Earl Carroll manner, but it would be a churlish critic indeed who would not admit that it is the most impressive musical show in town and one of the two funniest...
...these are the only kind which attract him. To play in his two ultrasocialite comedies, Paris Bound and Holiday, was chosen the Barrys' friend Hope Williams, a smart young woman who had never set foot on the professional boards before. And his good friend Donald Ogden Stewart acted the funniest role Playwright Barry has created to date: Nick, the easy-going gentleman in Holiday who extemporized on the invention of the bottle...
...Springtime for Henry Actor Bruce is at his funniest as a husband protesting his wife's jilting by his best friend. Theatregoers could be grateful that a slip-up by Actors' Equity permitted Actor Bruce to remain on the U. S. stage, in spite of the six months' interval between engagements required of alien actors...