Word: humors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jack (Andreas Teuber) is less convincing. He has all of the pay-cock's swagger, color, and noise--and just a bit too much of this last: do all Irishmen shout quite as much as the ones on the Loeb stage?--but he has so little of the necessary humor. He probably shouts simply to obscure his brogue which is obscure, but my goodness, man, that's no way to tell a joke. Kenneth Tigar shouts his jokes too, but that's because he realizes they are all basically the same joke (he is asked to call everything "Darlin...
Wickham declined to state exactly how much the 'Poonies will be paid for their parody, but said that "to our knowledge, no college humor magazine has ever been paid so highly...
Another difficulty with the record is that, like the First Family, the humor is only superficial. If you've heard it once, you've heard it enough. Only an inveterate party-giver would find permanent value...
...chuckle anthology is not quite the "riotous collection of political pleasantry" Cameo claims, but some of the bands are pretty skillful. Former Little Rock Congressman and now Special Assistant to the President Brooks Hays is given the largest play, and in general he is worth it. Hay's humor is not the subtle jab of Adlai Stevenson; rather it is folksy, obvious, and almost slapstick. If Hays' remarks were printed they would come off dreadfully, but his quips gain life when told with the soft drawl of the southerner...
President Kennedy, who supposedly revived humor in Washington after eight years of Eisenhower homilies, is also presented at his best. Huntley selects Kennedy's now famous speech to the White House Correspondents' annual dinner where the President parodied his fight against big steel. The thrusts are cutting, and, if delivered by a Republican would be almost libelous. From Kennedy they are delightful...