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THOSE PLOT REVERSALS and inviting French doors on stage right make the play a legitimate thriller; it is very witty as well. Bruhl's snide remarks about producers who ignore his plays and his collaborators in crime keep the play moving. The funniest moments of the night come with visits from the Bruhl's eccentric neighbor who proudly announces on each entrance. "I am Helge Ten Dorp, I am psychic...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Mind Games | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

...Groucho is the one with the pointed mustache and glasses who pulls most of the wisecracks. Harpo is the one in the curled peruke whose zany glee is never accompanied by a syllable. Chico is the tough one. Zeppo is handsome and does little. They are the Marxes, the funniest brothers in the U. S. In this adaptation of their musicomedy, a better piece than their first talkie (The Cocoanuts), the plot about a stolen painting is brought scornfully to light once in a while, and then merely to prove that they had a plot to ignore. Romantic songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema 1930: ANIMAL CRACKERS : The Marx Brothers | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Outside the Oval Office, the funniest Republicans are in the Senate, Robert Dole of Kansas ("I don't want to say Howard Baker is short, but last week I saw him playing handball against the curb") and Wyoming's Alan Simpson. Among the Democratic presidential contenders, South Carolina's Fritz Hollings is considered the wittiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Working Hard for the Last Laugh | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...also on TV these days as an amusingly supercilious huckster for Paul Masson wines. In the funniest of the commercials, he bursts into a locker room as a group of huge football players are about to give themselves a ritual champagne shower after a winning game. "Gentlemen!" he says reprovingly, as he expropriates a bottle and glass from a giant paw. "This is Paul Masson champagne." Holding a bottle close to one dull-looking jock, he asks, "Can you read?" "Vintage 1980," the (cowed) player replies. "Remarkable," responds Gielgud with good-natured sarcasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: New Notes from an Old Cello | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...only time I watch the Tonight show is when "bitchy" Joan Rivers [April 11] is host. Joan gets my vote for the funniest woman in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1983 | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

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