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...this century's funniest writers, Evelyn Waugh was also one of its most melancholy, a man submerged in private rancor. "You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic," he informed a friend. "Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being...
...American Industry--based, all of them, alas, on now obsolete advertising campaigns. (I still believe that the sight of the rotund executive being forcibly restrained from plunging after the bar of Ivory in "The Day a Cake of Soap Sank at Proctor and Gamble" is one of the funniest sights ever, but I must agree that a case can be made for obscurity there). And the late 1930s parody, "Life goes to the fall of Western Civilization," is gone too. You had to know the old Life style to laugh at it, but it was so good...
Love and Death. In my opinion, Woody Allen's best and funniest film. Parodies of Bergman, Tolstoy and earlier films of his own are hilarious...
...Azur or wherever. Altman's latest is definitely worth your while. The finale is a bit contrived, but individual vignettes are alternately revealing, funny, and devastating. The critical success of Nashville has led to a series of revivals of older Altman movies. M*A*S*H is perhaps the funniest antiwar movie ever made, but you'll have to be on your toes if you want to catch all of the dialogue. Ditto with The Long Goodbye, where Altman sets a Raymond Chandler novel in present-day California. Elliot Gould is Phillip Marlowe, and he gives the best performance...
...monologue to suit an individual audience. Making a guest appearance on a TV variety show, Brooks will contrive a bit like Dave the ventriloquist that will capitalize on the occasion and parody it at the same time. Says his friend Director Steven Spielberg (Jaws): "Albert is not only the funniest but the most visual humorist working today...