Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Queen of Comedy, Carol Burnett, is the funniest...
...perfect here, capturing the petulance of the artist whose creative instincts have gone awry. In one scene, Burstyn unintentionally speaks in Gielgud's voice. In another, Warner's brother, a noted footballer, jogs through a bedroom, where Stritch and Bogarde are conversing, on his way to the bathroom. The funniest of these sequences occurs between Burstyn and Warner. As they sit on a park bench together, Warner exclaims with surprise, "I've got an erection." Burstyn, who has been trying to seduce him all film, is pleased. "It's not mine," he insists. "Then whose is it?" taunts Bogarde...
...occasionally reflects on the stunts he used to pull on unsuspecting audiences. A common stunt was to hypnotize two persons from the audience, and then show each person one picture which he described alternately as the funniest or saddest ever seen. As you can imagine, one person would be laughing uncontrollably while the other would stand aghast, on the verge of tears. "That always brought the house down," Sampson admits...
...Wall advertises these shorts as non-sexist. Don't believe it. One of the funniest, "The Club," is a cartoon based on the idea of a very British eating club for phalluses; the viewer is led in through the door, and there are the penises, reading the Sunday papers, smoking pipes, doing vigorous push-ups in the adjacent gym. Another, "The Bed," by James Broughton, explores some of the possibilities of interaction with that piece of furniture, some unusual (doing a ritual dance around it), but others stereotypical and crude...
...members of the subculture who put on the review obviously have a great time doing it. The funniest of all are the Nerds, a quartet of wonks (as we in the College would say) who spend their time plotting ways to get onto the Law Review. But the other actors, while less polished, get by on sheer enthusiasm. A few less-than-professional voices only add to the show's charm, while most of the leads are good enough to carry the show by themselves. Geoffrey Menin's score (although occasionally imitative and frequently too loud) and the authors' brilliant...