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...Haven played the part of host as well as it could. The bars were crowded streets Jammed and hotels packed. At the game some funnymen pulled off a long, mysterious stunt between halves, a blue smoke bomb from the Eli stands annoyed many, and the Band's "Substitutions Unlimited" pleased even more...
...pain of $10 fines, to use profanity. Lahr was also instructed in other taboos: it was considered offensive to refer either to rats or false teeth. The shows were, in effect, well-staged revues, and were often reviewed by critics. In this heady atmosphere Lahr felt a new need. Funnymen, like birds of passage, are best identified by their distinctive cries. He developed one which sounded as though he were being strangled to death: "Gung-gung-gung-gung-gung." And though he remained a loud, low comedian, he labored for the sympathy of the audience and concentrated more & more...
...Aisle (music by Jule Styne; lyrics and sketches by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; produced by Arthur Lesser) can smile gratefully at its stars, Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray. Lahr remains among the best of the oldtime funnymen, and there are virtually no new ones. He has a nice comic face, he can make nice comic faces. He has a showman's sixth sense; his antics have authority. Best of all, he can lose his head splendidly when all about him are stodgily keeping theirs. As Captain Universe, leading the Space Patrol in a piece of stupendous interplanetary science fiction...
Rayburn & Finch Show (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS) belongs in the radio comic tradition established years ago by such zany funnymen as the late Colonel Stoopnagle. After five years as Manhattan disc jockeys, Rayburn & Finch have come to their unsponsored network show with a handful of records, a good deal of acerbic humor and a better-than-usual collection of puns. Starting off with a fictitious award called a "Ludwig," from a fictitious radio & TV magazine called See Hear!, the comics go on to rib educational shows with "Science Speaks," a program designed to "push back the frontiers of science-right...
...short, with their latest issue, the Bow Street Aviary has only proved once again what we have always maintained: that it is not, has not been, nor is ever likely to be even remotely funny. Too busy patting their own dogma, touting their own theories, the "funnymen" have come up with another turkey. The Lampoon has indeed gone a long way downhill since the days of Benchley and Williams...