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...Funny Thing's" funniest things happened when Paar kept himself offscreen. Elliott Reid did an inventive impression of an entire convention, including chairman, delegates, Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley and the BBC. An old newsreel showed Bess Truman hopelessly trying to christen an airplane-bopping the nose a dozen times until a technician took pity on her and hammered the bottle apart. And in a technically adroit sequence, famous faces were shown orating silently as the sound track played Tony Bennett's rendition of If I Ruled the World. It began with Johnson, moved to Goldwater, then to such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Funny Thing | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Illya is mistaken for the son of Peter O'Toole in "The Arabian Affair"-perhaps the funniest bone U.N.C.L.E. has tickled this season. Repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 13, 1966 | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...debate and the events preceding it are shot through with gags, word play and pure slapstick. The funniest sequences are those employing the choruses, one made up of Frogs and the other of a band of religious initiates. Here Munger is most skillful, as he breaks up great masses of potentially monotonous lines and, at one point, turns the stage into a daffy bacchanal, a kind of Attic "Hullabaloo." The choruses run the gamut from barbershop quarter to square dance, singing and chanting and generally cutting...

Author: By Lee H. Simowttz, | Title: The Frogs | 4/23/1966 | See Source »

...himself. True, the dear lady is one of the ickiest prigs who ever put quill to scented paper. Yet if in 1794 her virginal vaporings came on as symptoms of high sensibility, in 1966 they come off as conventions of high comedy. All unintentionally, Udolpho is one of the funniest books ever written, a travesty of the romantic ethos that reads at times like a collection of exquisitely sappy subtitles from an old Pearl White picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Extricating Emily | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

WHDH offered a prize for the funniest saying sent in. Potter wrote, "In the Heisenberg representation of quantum electrodynamics, the radiative corrections to the scattering matri are best evaluated using the anti-commutater of the renormalized Green's function with its irreducible Spinner invariant." It didn't win, but the announcer read it on the air because "it sounded profound...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: The Life and Times of Stephen Potter | 4/21/1966 | See Source »

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