Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your Show of Shows of the 1950s is remembered, along with Ernie Kovacs' excursions beyond the pale, as the best and funniest work ever done for TV. Yet memory is a fun-house mirror There is always a nagging doubt when gazing into it: Were things really that good? Yes, they certainly were, as this mini-anthology resoundingly proves...
...inadequacies of Night School, however, are the fault of Pinter, not of the Loeb's cast, which is largely distinguished. Cynthia Whitman, playing the ambiguous character of Sally, is a standout, as are Katherine Wenger and Darcy Pulliam, the two doting aunts who together have some of the funniest lines in all of Pinter's works...
LOWELL HOUSE OPERA. Francis Poulenc's The Breasts of Tiresias, one of the funniest operas ever written. Caldwell Titcomb '47 calls it Tessie's Tits. And a concert version of Purcell's Indian Queen. Both Boston premieres...
...history of the Pudding is rife with little known, tasty and insipid tidbits. Today's Pudding players would no doubt rather forget 1875's The Mischievous Nigger starring Anthony Snow in the title role. The story of 1914's road tour of Legend of Loravia is one of the funniest things to come from the Pudding--certainly far more humorous than most of the shows. One evening an informal party was held backstage before curtain time and everyone had a bit too much of his or "her" favorite beverage. As Roger S. Hewlett '33 recounted it: "When the curtain arose...
...ineptitude - jugglers who drop their props, dancers who bump into each other and acrobats who cannot hold each other up. The decrepit old black blues singer and guitarist faces the back of the stage, thumps his foot, forgets all his music and caroms into the pit. Perhaps the funniest skit is one featuring Toulouse-Lautrec, who slithers around with shoes on his knees and tries desperately to heft a huge canvas onto an easel beyond his reach...