Word: gagmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What's a bank got to be stuck up about?" Then there is the uproarious moment when the sheet falls off the stretcher, revealing that Costello is really walking down the street holding before him a pair of crutches with shoes affixed to their ends. The boys' gagmen have apparently been busy with one of the largest card indexes in Hollywood. The picture comes closest to comic originality when it swipes the idea of Charles Addams' famous and unsettling New Yorker cartoon which showed what was apparently one man's ski tracks passing a tree...
This time Bob Hope wrestles with the role of a young stockbroker who wagers $10,000 that he can tell the truth for 24 hours. He finds it tough going. Although Scripters Don Hartman and Ken Englund (and other nameless gagmen) have tried hard to refurbish the old farce by throwing out the 1916 gags and substituting their own, the change is scarcely noticeable...
...grimmest problem is getting gags. Says he: "Good gagmen are rare, and even if you do manage to tie up with a topnotcher, you will find that too much effort must be spent in keeping him sober to make the collaboration a profitable...
...costs to ballyhoo Jell-O is something General Foods keeps under its hat. But no secret is the staggering gross that Benny will rake in this year for 35 half-hour appearances before an NBC mike. The take: $630,000, out of which Benny pays for an orchestra, announcer, gagmen and his cast, leaving a gratifying net before taxes of some...
Awesome to fellow zanies is Allen's ability to concoct his own jokes. Most of them depend on gagmen for their wit. Allen writes much of his show himself, decisively edits the contributions of his two assistant scripteurs. Practically unchanged this season will be the formula that carried his program along on NBC. In his dry, unhappy, singsong drawl, Allen will still handle 60% of the dialogue, manage, between musical pauses, to give his own news of the week, interview unexpected guests, preside over the dramatic doings of the Mighty Allen Art Players. For his famed ad libs...