Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...viewer tuning in The Dick Van Dyke Show. He has heard that it's pretty funny. After all, it has just won three Emmy awards as the funniest, best-written and best-directed humor show on television. He knows from just general absorption that Van Dyke plays a gag writer married to a delicious-looking girl played by Mary Tyler Moore. Van Dyke and Moore are arriving at a literary cocktail party. "Do you want to duck out right now," says he to her, "and take in a movie?" The laughter that follows this line is deafening...
...renamed himself "for professional purposes" S. P. Eagle. Hollywood roared with laughter; sports referred to one Eagle picture as The S. T. Ranger, suggested that Z. A. Nuck and L. U. Bitsch follow Sam's lead. But Spiegel played the game for twelve years, relinquishing the gag only when Director Elia Kazan told him On the Waterfront was good enough to risk his real name for. Variety headlined the news: THE EAGLE FOLDS ITS WINGS...
These jokes come out as segments of nervous, elliptical stories. The man who tells them is a flatheaded, redheaded lemur with closely bitten fingernails and a sports jacket. Like Jack Paars ghostly Jack Douglas, Allen is a gag writer turned stand-up comic. He even resembles Douglas in a miniature way, with bulging eyes framed by heavy black-rimmed glasses. In fact, since he is so dehydrated that he probably weighs what the charts say he ought to, he gives the impression that if he were dropped into a bowl of water he would turn into Douglas himself...
...literary gamut is unlimited. He has written with equal facility on insurance, taxes, psychology, Novelist J. D. Salinger and the late Federal Judge Learned Hand, marriage and divorce, gag writers, capital punishment, Wall Street, greyhounds and, of course, horse racing. In partnership with a couple of friends, he owns, races and breeds thoroughbreds; one of them, a three-year-old filly named Nubile, won $18,000 in prize money last year...
Taking off from the Vitalis TV commercial (says Bart Starr, root-deep in Vitalis. to the oily-headed locker-room amateur beside him: "Say, you still using that greasy kid stuff?"). Greasy Kid Stuff was invented last summer as a gag. Its college-boy creators. Bill Cole and Larry Frohman, each invested $50, mixed up a batch of mineral oil and lanolin in a lard can, threw in a pinch of spice perfume, churned the whole with an egg beater, and turned out 120 bottles of Stuff. Their advertising was built in: the $10 million Bristol-Meyers campaign for Vitalis...