Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stage humor is in transition. The old humor of the gag and the wise crack was confident, benign, a pick-me-up rather than a putdown. The new humor, which draws its tone from play wrights such as Albee and Pinter, is cruel, taut-nerved, and speaks the lingo of the obscene and the absurd, not funny-ha-ha but funny-peculiar. The new humor reigns in off-Broadway's Scuba Duba, a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman (Stern, A Mother's Kisses...
...first problem of execution is its clumsy, slapstick portrayal of the German and Allied troops. The movie goes with the Hogan's Heroes school of soldiers for both sides of the conflict. The Germans have names like Hamburger and, as in the latest Gillette ad, go through the old gag in which the commander laughs at the subordinate's joke, stops laughing, and then glares while the subordinate gulps. At one point a young lieutenant with a stubby mustache comes running in shouting something about Mein Kampf, and is told. "Later, Adolph, later...
Like Jane & Cheetah. Next night in Milwaukee, 2,823 Republicans jammed into the Municipal Arena for another $100-a-plate affair, while several thousand more paid $5 apiece to listen from the balcony. Reagan, who may have been raiding Bob Hope's gag file, started off with a string of japes: "We have some hippies in California. For those of you who don't know what a hippie is, he's a fellow who has hair like Tarzan, who walks like Jane, and who smells like Cheetah...
...recording of Orton's favorite song, the Beatles' A Day in the Life. Playwright Harold Pinter read a few lines of poetry and Actor Donald Pleasence delivered an ode he composed himself-a reminder that in his plays Joe Orton had treated death as a grisly gag...
JENNERSTOWN, PA., Mountain Playhouse. Never Too Late is a one-gag show that takes off when a middle-aged wife tells her very middle-aged husband that they are to have another child. Papa-to-be protests: "When he gets out of college, I'll be going on 83-if he's smart." Sept...