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...sports fan, the play strikes its highest marks with its hilarious observations of how players in the bullpen wile away many hours waiting to be called in on relief. This activity ranges from scoping girls and playing baseball trivia games to performing practical jokes and rough-housing. Among the funniest moments is when Frito calls Dave Winfield on the bullpen phone and pretends to be a police officer calling about a statuatory rape case involving the Yankee star...
Some of the movie's funniest moments have nothing to do with the central characters or the carefully balanced twistings of the plot. In a ridiculously gratuitous, but actually funny scene, Ken is faced with a sad picture of social reality while selling stereos. A streetpunk enters the store, ready to be conned into spending all his allowance on speakers. Ken easily convinces him that bigger is better, and introduces him to the eight-foot Dominator speaker. The kid practically drools, violently playing air-guitar, ready to fork over his grandmother, when in walks his girlfriend, 17, barefoot and pregnant...
...Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, with all its clunking contrivances, coupled with the petulant fantasies of a second-string critic (Petherbridge) about an uprising by all the world's also-rans. Delightful all the way, it is nonetheless utterly upstaged by Sheridan's farce, one of the funniest plays in the English language and certainly the funniest about the theater...
However it is Jon Tolins, who nearly steals the show with his out-standing--and non-dancing--performances as both Pippin's father and grandmother. Roger Hirson's book gives these roles some of the funniest lines in the musical, and Tolins makes the most of them...
...putty nose and blow the house away. The people Guinness describes are not quite larger than life but simply more grand than you and I are used to. John Gielgud really is as acerbic and sophisticated as he is on screen, and Ernie Kovacs was indeed the funniest person Guinness ever met. During the making of Our Man in Havana, Guinness saw Kovacs sitting typing in his dressing room with the door wide open--and surrounded by half-a-dozen naked girls. "Shall I close the door?" asked Guinness. "No! For heaven's sakes!" cried Kovacs. "What would people think...