Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY is a slambang comedy-literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit-agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness...
...Arnold Zenker again (TIME, April 7), filling in for Walter Cronkite and doing a pretty good job of telling the news too. True enough, some of the other substitutes sounded like sweet young office secretaries or shipping clerks trying to be discovered. For compensation, there was a sense of humor about it all. Public Affairs Man ager George Heinemann, who had taken over WNBC-TV's evening weather shows, couldn't help looking like an elderly but appealing high school boy hauled up to the front of the classroom for a recitation. NBC Radio's spot announcements...
...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. The humor of Michael Flanders' and Donald Swann's revue resembles a martini: it goes down smoothly, is slightly sly, and definitely...
...HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Robert Anderson uses sex to ski through four separate playlets, and the trip is thoroughly enjoyable-even if a trifle obsessive. Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard slalom through the comedy with dazzling grace, while Director Alan Schneider unleashes the humor in a blizzard of hilarity...
BLACK COMEDY is a slam-bang comedy-literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit - watching agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness...