Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Lampoon has announced new officers who will attempt to keep Bow St.'s funniest humor magazine on the newsstands for yet another year. President will be Samuel H. Young '61, of Kirkland House and Philadelphia; Ibis, John L. Berendt '61, of Lowell House and Syracuse, N.Y.; Narthex, J. Jeremy Johnston '61, of Lowell House and South Hadley; Treasurer, John A. Herbert '60, of Lowell House and Quincy; Secretary, George Crawford, Jr. '60, of Dunster House and Salters...
...show is funny. But the humorous part of the program could be funnier, and truer to Twain if some of the cuttings were better. If Twain is "America's funniest humorist," as all the advertisements say, and even if he isn't--much of his charm rests on an especially endowed talent for spinning the old Western tall tale. Sometimes the story-teller, without cracking a smile, is able to convince his victim that his whole tale is gospel truth and is able to use this tale for all sorts of devious ends. But the comic aspect lies chiefly...
...instead of rubber hose. Essentially, however, Tati attacks the modern world by showing what it's like at its ludicrous best. Mon Oncle is, in fact, a magnificent series of satiric vignettes, and Tati's greatest achievement here is that of the director who catches in the subtlest and funniest touches the humor and charm of life...
Pillow Talk. The two box-office champions of the 1958-59 season (Rock Hudson and Doris Day) team up in a medium-fiuffy comedy whose greatest asset is Supporting Player Tony Randall, one of the funniest young men in the movies...
There are compensations. The picture has been flashily produced in a slather of Eastman Color that often looks like violet shaving cream. It has been smartly directed by Michael (Cyrano de Bergerac) Gordon. And it presents, in the part of Rock's jealous rival, one of the funniest young men in movies today: a sort of Ivy League Dracula named Tony Randall...