Word: guffawing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your well-insulated intellectualism. Admittedly, it is escapist; but that does not exclude the possibility of its being funny. When Fred Grandy comes on and looks like Bob Dylan and eats his harmonica like Dylan and sings like you've always secretly thought Bob Dylan did sing, you can guffaw if you want; you can even roll around a little on the kindergarten-colored wood benches (at least I did, much to the discomfort of another reviewer's wife who was snickering beside...
...enough to present the issues of today with tongue-in-cheek or heart-in-throat and expect the audience to react automatically. But this is primarily what the Light Company does. We see slides of Agnew and we are supposed to guffaw; we see slides of Vietnam bloodshed and we are supposed to shudder. We've seen this all before many times, and by now we have hardened to it. The theatre will have to sneak up from behind and twist our funny bones or club us on our heads to get the laugh or the cringe...
...hour of nothing but comedy? No dancers? No guest crooners? No lavish production numbers? Impossible. So, when the show debuted six weeks ago during the deep doldrums of TV's midseason, it came on like a fanfare at a funeral. Ever since, like a giggle building to a guffaw, it has gained momentum until it now threatens to knock off its top-rated competition, Gunsmoke and The Lucy Show, in the ratings race...
...authors are always willing to settle for a handful of shameless titters from the audience ("Clint, honey, what was the idea of that crystal ball?" "Guffaw, guffaw!"), but this year's were content with less. I saw them shoveling it in at a lunch for Angela Lansbury last week, telling someone they'd been sitting on the script for nearly a year. It shows...
...SHOWOFF. The marrying process is always a mystery, but Playwright George Kelly's tightly corseted family cannot begin to understand how the youngest daughter could possibly pick a man whose every guffaw grates on the nerves and whose every word offends the sensibilities. Helen Hayes leads the APA in a gentle revival of the 1924 comedy...