Word: gagman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political Gagman Art Buchwald got the star billing, of course. But still, Bill Moyers, 32, won his share of the laughs when he rose to address the Women's National Press Club in Washington. Now working as publisher of Long Island's Newsday, which is owned by Captain Harry Guggenheim, Moyers told the "true inside story" of how he came to leave the White House. "The President called me in one day and said: 'Bill, when you took over as press secretary, the polls were 60-40 for me. Now they're 40-60 against...
SITTING contentedly on the banks of the Illinois River in the very heartland of America, Peoria has for years been the butt of jokes, the gagman's tag for Nowheresville. "How come you got married?" "Well, I was booked into Peoria and it was raining." Today that humor is as stale as the idea of Peoria as a backwater of national life. The Peoria of 1966 welcomes more foreign visitors than just about any other U.S. city of its size (pop. 133,000), and sends its citizens abroad to range the world. The bartender at the Pere Marquette Hotel...
...night, while listening to a radio announcer spieling a tasteless commercial, Gagman Roger Price exploded. "I can't stand it any longer," he shouted at the obnoxious squawk. Then he began to think about all the other things he couldn't stand any longer: solidly frozen butter pats, astrology, karate, clergymen who discourse learnedly on sex. But what was the point in ranting and raving when nobody else was listening? "That's when I decided to complain out loud in public," recalls Price. "The thing every man wants...
Like few other comedians, he can function as master of ceremonies before a dinner of titans and financiers and never seem to be just a fast-talking gagman rung in for the night. He carries off that sort of thing with an offhand assurance that suggests he's really one of the big tycoons who just happened to take the podium. Small wonder. That's what he is. If anyone still wonders where the yellow went, Pepsodent's aggressive young comedian of 1938 is now one of the largest individual holders of raw acreage in Southern California...
...around is Jackie Kahane, who is 39 and has actually been a figure in the nightclub woodwork for some time but is now crawling toward recognition. He is a Canadian and a throwback to the era of the stand-up comedian, the school that thought a comic was a gagman, not an actor, and any joke that couldn't be told in one breath couldn't be funny. Kahane sprays his BBs in all directions. "In kindergarten, my kid flunked clay ... I love children, I went to school with them . . . Our dog is adopted. My wife...