Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Woody Allen may well be the funniest man in America. But he is not the funniest writer in America, and between the two titles lies a profound gap. At the bottom of the gap is Don't Drink the Water, the film version of Woody's first stage play...
...rummaged in the drawer she talked about Arthur Hiller. "I don't really know what he's like as a director: all we've done is rehearsals. But he's about the funniest man I know. He's always joking. He's more easy-going than Larry Peerce [who directed Goodbye Columbus]. Not that-it's just that Arthur never gets flustered. I honestly don't know what the film will be like, though...
...funniest scene of the evening is a birthday party for the father, with the ceiling festooned with frankfurters, and a cake shaped like a chopping block. The father vows that he will not touch the cake. Grudgingly, he accepts a piece, bites skeptically into it, whereupon his face unclouds with delight as he discovers that the cake is made of meat. Moments like that are rare in a season, let alone a play, and they make Who's Happy Now? a minor treasure...
Surely one of the funniest one-acters I have ever seen, Noon is about a wide variety of people (a nymphomaniac, a homosexual, an uptight heterosexual-intellectual, and a middle-aged sado-masochist couple from Westchester) who find themselves thrown together in a New York loft. They have all come to meet with a certain Dale (sex unknown) who seems to have answered each character's sleazy newspaper ad for sexual adventure...
...Lawyer, Educator, Judge, Comptroller," say Mario's campaign posters, conjuring up the image of an elderly, white-haired gent with published writings. But the real Procaccino is an everyday guy, at his best kidding with the fellows and at his worst slinging mud. His have been by far the funniest lines of the campaign-and not, as his detractors charge, malapropisms. When Mrs. Fiorello LaGuardia endorsed Lindsay, Mario came up with the observation that "There is no real conflict here: Mayor LaGuardia chose me as a public servant, he chose Marie as his wife." Procaccino also coined the only durable...