Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Late last night the most recent attempt at such infantile humor--"What Is Not to Be Done"--was found in a dumpster behind the Hong Kong Chinese restaurant under a pile of chicken wings. The following is exerpted from that publication's not the lecture column...
...stature. While Mantell does cover some of the relevant bases, he ignores key leads to the problem at hand. For instance, in the half-hour we hear nothing of Allen's fifteen years of psychoanalysis, although that process has probably provided Allen with a larger portion of his humor than any other single factor. Allen does a lot of psychological jokes, and the understanding that his analysis has afforded him into his own personality and into his relationship with his parents, friends and lovers is essential to a man who survives by the quality of his observations of people. Allen...
...haven't discovered that the comedy in most Jewish comedians [Oct. 2] is the result of "a defense mechanism to ward off the aggression and hostility of others." Nor are they "ambivalent about their Jewishness and compulsively turn to humor to ward off their private demons." The majority of them just happen to be very normal people who are gifted with wit and a natural sense of humor. They are marvelous storytellers...
While I cannot argue about the unusually large number of Jewish comedians in relation to their percentage of the population, I do think there is one point that you overlooked completely: the total lack of any humor in the Christian religions. Naturally those who are exposed to less merriment will be less likely to pursue a career in comedy...
...Gicquel and Walter Cronkite in your uncritical portrait of the French TV anchorman [Sept. 25]. I never noticed any pompous morbidity or any Christ complex in Cronkite. The old man is a charmer because there are wisdom and warmth in his restraint. Besides, he has a quiet sense of humor that his younger imitator lacks. As a Frenchman I feel I deserve better than Roger Gicquel...