Word: gagmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because he had submitted a ghostwritten article as evidence. He was also pointing up an old Washington custom: ghostwriters had become as much a part of the furniture of modern government as the Mimeograph machine. Many a legislator was as helpless without his ghost as Jack Benny without his gagmen. They appeared on congressional payrolls as "secretaries," in executive departments as "administrative assistants" and "information specialists." And on the Supreme Court itself, some Justices' legal styles changed in curious relation to their law clerks...
...good gagmen are rare and once an artist gets his hands on one he keeps him captive if he can. Cartoonist Jeff Keate, however, shares Gagman Arnot Shepperd Jr. of St. Louis with several friends. Gagman Richard McCallister of Newtown, Conn. has been a dependable source of gags for Helen Hokinson, Robert Day, Barbara Sherman and George Price. The gagman's usual cut: 25% of the artist...
Road to Utopia (Paramount) is the fourth and farthest north in the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby-Dorothy Lamour road shows.* It also had the Paramount gagmen scraping the barrel bottom...
...that. But the fact that Jimmy's nose is big is no more important per se than the fact that W. C. Fields's nose is red. Jimmy, like Fields, is no gagster, however appealing, depending on the card indexes of teams of gagmen (he has used many of the same jokes for years). Jimmy, like Fields, is a high comedian, who can convulse both children and sophisticates. Not only do millions laugh at him, but they laugh for a rich variety of reasons...
Benny's ad-libbing ability was obvious to most of his soldier audiences on his recent 32,000-mile U.S.O. tour. But not a single top-rank U.S. comedian could get by for long without his stable of gagmen. The comic demands of regular radio appearances are too heavy for one man's wits. This fact confronted U.S.O. with a traffic problem when it decided to transport U.S. comedians abroad to entertain the troops. The gagmen would have made just so much extra baggage...