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Word: funniest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Juvenile Jury (Sun. 1:30 p.m., Mutual). One of the funniest shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Dec. 30, 1946 | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...pated wife (Virginia Mayo). Fredric March, after a stretch as a middle-aged infantry sergeant, now sees his stuffy bank job in a new perspective. Made shy by a long-deferred reunion with his wife (Myrna Loy) and grown-up daughter (Teresa Wright), March goes on one of the funniest benders ever filmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Living up to the brilliant promise of its title in every respect, "The Thrill of Brazil" provides a visually and vocally irritating intermission between "Crack-Up," inexplicably billed as the second feature, and the pictures of the Army-Notre Dame game. Keenan Wynn, one of the funniest and most amiable of Hollywood's products, manages to save some scenes. But the concerted opposition of Tito Guizar, Ann Miller, and Evelyn Keyes proves too much for him, and even he is overcome by the morass of bad songs, bad production numbers, and typical South American musical plot, complete with mismated couples...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...player from each team leaped into the air, and each came down with his hands on the ball. While both teams pleaded vociferously for the decision, the referee, remembering perhaps Adolph Samborski's pregame remark that the officials always have a good time in these games because "the funniest things happen," ruled the pass completed to Deacon Jerry Minton, giving Kirkland the margin of victory...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Kirkland Eleven Nips Dunster, 13-12 | 10/17/1946 | See Source »

...Benny, Bergen, McGee & Hope, no rival network has been able to break NBC's hammer lock on humor. Last week, little ABC weighed in a promising challenger: droll, deadpan Henry Morgan. His first coast-to-coast half hour (Tues., 8:30-9 p.m., E.D.S.T.) was the freshest and funniest new show in years. Morgan's secret weapon: a needle that tickles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Satirist | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

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