Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Funniest sequel to the discovery was an attempt by the Japanese to annex the nova. CBS's short-wave listening station heard Tokyo announce that a Japanese amateur astronomer, Shiaki Nakihava, had first sighted the new star. The Japanese called his feat "one of the greatest events in science." Then they located the nova in the wrong constellation (Canis Major instead of Puppis...
Following on the heels of "Othello" is far from an easy spot for any play, but the Cambridge Summer Theatre's selection of "Out of the Frying Pan" proved to be a fortunate choice. Francis Swann's comedy about a gang of screwball actors in one of the funniest things to hit Boston this summer, and some clever acting and smooth direction add immeasurably to the general merriment...
Vandalism. Because it believes that Dead Souls is too gloomy a title to sell one of the funniest books ever written, the Readers Club has just published its improved translation of Nikolai Gogol's great satirical novel with what it considers an improved title: Chichicov's Journeys; or, Home Life in Old Russia...
...made his living by ribbing the tolerant Third Republic, which he called "the whore." Now it was gone. France, which he loved, was overrun with Germans-"uniformed blackguards, helmeted swine." The Royalist cause, of which he had been the loudest & funniest champion, was all but forgotten. And the good wines of France, which he claimed would "improve bad heredity, amplify good heredity," were mostly being used for the improvement of Nazis. There was little left for him to live for when, last week, death came to old Léon Daudet, 74, longtime editor of Paris' L' Action...
...providing the twists, and performers of all nations supplying the turns. Arrayed in his usual unusual costumes and equipped with a few new inventions, including a collection box that comments on the offerings, the Perfect Fool guides the show insanely from act to act. Wynn is not at his funniest in Laugh, Town, Laugh, but he is funny enough; and his embarrassed giggles help to redeem his most embarrassing gags...