Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-executed idea, one can only like or dislike it. Peter Simmons' My House (San Francisco State) is another one that can't be criticized: he had the sense to tell his joke about a community of identical houses in two and a half minutes (last year's one-gag film lasted thirty-five...
...guests to be invited to a party at the producer's house. And that is how Peter Sellers happens to show up in brownface with a mild Oriental smile and a wild Oriental eye to turn a black-tie dinner into a hectic crescendo of slapstick, sight gag, pratfall and pandemonium...
...steel strike on the California Christmas-tree market. Cavett is still too innocent to prevent a veteran pitchman like Art Linkletter from wresting the show away from him and giving a 15-minute spiel for a new game he helped invent. But in defense, Cavett, a former gag writer, can fall back on old material. Once, he said, when he was out of work, he used to write dirty jokes for kids to use on Linkletter's TV House Party...
...there are more than a few duds it is hard to tell in the thick of the barrage. Everybody wings it, and in that spirit the show's resident cast of bright young kooks often make the lines seem funnier than they really are. "If one gag goes completely over your head," says Martin, "there'll be another along in a few seconds that'll crack you up." Sprinkled throughout are quick flashes of famous faces (Peter Lawford, winking broadly: "You don't have to be happy to be gay"), and a variety of sight gags...
...latest debate, for the first time Johnson made a strong appeal to Congress, along with presidential hopeful George Romney who urged all Republicans to vote for cloture. But Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.), true to form, rallied the opposition with the cry that the Senate should not "gag itself...