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Word: funnyman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might buy slapstick from this man, but would you buy stock? Funnyman Mel Brooks, 63, said last week that his production company, Brooksfilms, plans a public offering to raise cash for movie and TV projects. The company earned a mere $323,000 in fiscal 1989 and may lose money in 1990. Comedy is hot today, but Brooks may be running out of gas. He has had no major hit since Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein in 1974, which reaped a total of more than $86 million in North America alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC OFFERINGS: Blazing Shares | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...them. There's a joke going around that he hangs out outside the Betty Ford Center." But besides recruiting the down-and-out, Katzenberg lures established stars by offering them Hollywood's big opportunity: to direct or help produce their own pictures. Earlier this month, Disney signed TV Funnyman David Letterman to a multipicture contract as both an actor and producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Believe In Magic? | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...explain it to you," says Jackie Mason in his television commercials for the new Honda Prelude with four-wheel steering. Jabbing his elbows this way and that, the Borscht Belt funnyman proceeds to confuse a subject that is already complicated: "The car is going like this, the wheel is going like that, you're going like this because you can't figure out where did the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: How To Turn on a Dime | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...human condition." Alas, the history of American art criticism suggests that you need only sketch a bum to get popped into the pot with Daumier, or a street crowd to be compared with Hogarth. The truth in this case is the reverse: as a satirist, as distinct from a funnyman, Grooms hardly exists. His hearty sweetness drives out saeva indignatio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Corn-Pone Cubism, Red-Neck Deco | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...good to be king," deadpanned funnyman Mel Brooks, in his movie "History of the World, Part...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Reporter's Notebook: Food, Glorious Food | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

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