Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Annoying Ploy. British humor can be highly perishable, and its point is often so obscure as to defy detection -except perhaps, by the British themselves. But Stephen Potter's wry and understated advice on how to win games, including the game of life, with losing hands endeared him to readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Any of his satirical books, from the first (Gamesmanship, or The Art of Winning Games
...wake of nationwide success for the Lampoon Time parody, a number of former Poon editors have banded together to publish a monthly. New York based national humor magazine...
Each issue of the Time-sized monthly will be "heavy in visual humor." Hoffman explained, and will feature a "theme." "Big Business, Money, and Greed" will be the theme of the second issue, due in April...
Television newsmen last week were still viewing Vice President Agnew's attacks on the press with alarm, but one unelected elite-the humor columnists -was beginning to relax and enjoy it. "Boy, you guys have put me back in business," Art Buchwald told Administration Communications Director Herb Klein shortly after Agnew's Des Moines speech. "Where do I send the wine...
...show itself does not show signs of all the strain. The humor is not only more risqué than in years past, it also has raised the Smothers brothers' fallen torch by tackling such heavies as the U.S. military establishment, the ultraright wing, Viet Nam, marriage, homosexuality and organized religion. But what is to become of Laugh-In once the old gang is gone? Newcomers are already being broken in, including a dumb redhead named Pamela Rodgers and an energetic Negro named Teresa Graves. And there's always Rowan and Martin (remember them?). But the magic of their...