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Columnist Johnson, a professional funnyman, has also interviewed mind-readers to get a line on prospective Academy Award winners (it was a wobbly line), examined Greer Carson's knees after an Eastern stocking designer called her knock-kneed (no knock), inspected the redecorated ladies' room at Romanoff's restaurant (Hedy Lamarr was surprised to meet him there) and played bit parts in six movies. For his brash, brisk reporting about these unlikely activities and more consequential news of Hollywood, 39-yearold Erskine Johnson has become one of Hollywood's most widely read male columnists, earns about...
...semi-retirement since last June, Radio Funnyman Fred Allen explained his reluctance to join the stampede to television. "Pioneers never make any money," said Allen. "Take Daniel Boone. He went through all those forests and didn't make a dime. Then the lumber companies came in and cleaned...
...Hope, according to Gallup pollsters, is the U.S. public's favorite all-round funnyman-just ahead of Milton Berle and Jack Benny. Last on the list of 15: Charlie Chaplin...
...Funnyman Milton Berle was getting no laughs out of Met Soprano Dorothy Kirsten. Cried the prima donna: "He hired a girl in a hideous blonde wig and passed her off as me. Then he played a screeching record . . . and had the girl mouth along with the words. The result was just awful . . . The image was most unattractive . . ." Dorothy even made threats to sue for "plenty . . . Imagine putting on that horrible-sounding mess and telling everybody I was doing it . . ." Said Milton, through his lawyers: "She is unfamiliar with the actual facts . . ." Then he began trying, still unsuccessfully at week...
...every Yuletide since 1897, the staid New York Sun last week reprinted the famed letter-to-the-editor from eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, and the Sun's richly sentimental reply: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus . . ." Last week, Sun Funnyman H. I. ("Hi") Phillips jumped the gun on the editorial with a concoction of his own: a letter from a Virginia who asks the editor of Moscow's Pravda, "Is there a Santa Claus? . . . (Papa says, 'If you see it in Pravda...