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Annenberg and Weiner are "possibly the funniest thing to hit all of humanity," said Hanning. "They make Letterman look like [Baker Professor of Economics] Martin S. Feldstein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRB's New Comedy Show Hits Boston Morning Airwaves | 10/5/1985 | See Source »

...recorded live at the Austin City Limits honky tonk, kicks off side two. After "Get Back to the Country," it's the album's strongest song. Next up, the title cut, is a classic Waylon-style "Gonna quit this drugs and drinkin" confessional. It's one of Young's funniest pieces since "Yonder Stands the Sinner...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Neil Young Goes Twang | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...funniest--albeit weirdest nights of the year--came the last Saturday night before we went home for the summer. I still had one exam left the next Tuesday, but one of the women upstairs had finished and was having a year-end party. She had bought a lot of champagne and had invited a few friends over to say farewell. We were all sitting around playing some innocuous drinking games, when Stuart arrived and suggested we play "I Never." You would go around the room and declare something you had never done; everyone who had done it had to drink...

Author: By Joel A. Getz, | Title: Should I stay or Should I Go? | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

Writer Bergman has a million of these one-liners, and Actor Chase, whose funniest movie this is, has a way with them that is very ingratiating. He falls about a bit in his patented manner, but basically he keeps surprising ) with the competence that lies just beneath his disarming air of distractedness. In the classic dramas of private investigation, the cheeky quip is the tough guy's challenge to toughness. In Fletch the quick, smartly paced gags somehow read as signs of vulnerability. Incidentally, they add greatly to the movie's suspense. Every minute you expect the hero's loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gliberated in Dreamland Fletch | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

Brewster's Millions shows Pryor borrowing bits of the Murphy magic. Walter Hill directed Murphy's first hit, 48 HRS. Harris and Weingrod wrote Murphy's funniest movie, Trading Places. Their plot, based on the old George Barr McCutcheon wheeze, has an aging minor-league pitcher bequeathed $300 million on the condition that he spend $30 million in the next 30 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Greed Screed Brewster's Millions | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

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