Word: gagmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outrageous subjects that were once shocking sources of satanic laughter now seem hardly ticklish at all. Black Comedians today tend to be admired like TV gagmen and nightclub acrobats -less for jolt than for sheer agility...
...long ago, Hope and Jack Benny were sitting in a studio while a young rock group was rehearsing. The two old gagmen observed and listened to the zippy youthfulness of the kids with some bemusement. At length, Hope turned to Benny and asked, "Jack, do you realize how fortunate we are that the audiences still want
...organization with scholarly overtones and heavily social undertones," the Sons of the Desert (named after an L. & H. film) was founded two years ago by a group of Manhattan literary and show-business people, now has chapters, or "tents," in seven cities, numbers among its members such modern-day gagmen as Jonathan Winters, Dick Cavett, Dick Van Dyke and Soupy Sales...
...Hollywood set of Critics' Choice, Leading Man Bob Hope headed into a banquet room and wound up with a surprise party. For his 59th birthday, co-workers gave him a $40 stuffed panda, a cake ablaze with candles, and a good-humored ribbing written by his own gagmen and delivered by Co-Star Lucille Ball. "I don't know just how old Bob is," said the sprightly redhead, "but he's closer to medicare than most Republicans." Added Lucy, recalling Hope's salad days: "He was handsome then-big chest, hard stomach. Of course, that...