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Word: funniest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote while away an hour and a half with one of the shaggiest stories ever put on film: the year's orneriest picture, and one of its funniest (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Choice for 1954 | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...starts well--Herrera's cover, although evidently designed for Dartmouth weekend distribution, is well drawn and attracting, and the insurance advertisement parody on the inside cover is probably the funniest contribution. From there, however, the issue trails into a succession of three attempts at movie satire. The attempts satirize only themselves. The other prose rises above this level but once. Fletcher's The Ghost is somewhat ill-conceived, but nonetheless well-executed, and his style precurses a Renaissance in 'Poon wit. Any such revival, however, is stifled by the inclusion of a piece titled As Maine Goes. Evidently the editors...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: The Lampoon | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...owner swearing at his parrot, the other of a novice fisherwoman. His others, though not as good, are as well-drawn. R. S. McIlwaine has contributed three cartoons, one of which is bad, and another which is worse. But on the third try, he comes up with probably the funniest cartoon in the issue, depicting the unrelentlessness of mechanical room-cleaning. The other cartoonist, G. N. Herbert, shows that he can draw a Jaguar...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: The Lampoon | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

Down with Skool, by Geoffrey Wiilans and Ronald Searle. Possibly the funniest junior class war since Peck's Bad Boy (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Next day Hollywood almost returned to normal. Marilyn was back on the set of The Seven Year Itch in pink pajamas, going through "one of the funniest scenes in the movie" with Actor Tom Ewell. Despite her heartbreak, said a studio pressagent, "the show must go on." "Why?" asked a newsman. Answered the pressagent: "We're $50,000 and three days behind production on the picture already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out at Home | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

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