Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went into a coma until mid-1976. When he awoke, his wife had divorced him, and his business had collapsed. A member of the DuPont family in the Class of '54 filed the largest personal bankruptcy claim in United States history in 1971 and is now in the joke-writing business...
...nation's gasoline situation is beginning to resemble a good-news-bad-news joke. The good news: the shortages that appeared menacing in early May have eased, just in time to promise that the majority of motorists setting out on Memorial Day drives could find enough fuel to get home again. That is also the bad news: the improvement is likely to lessen pressure on the Administration and Congress to work out a coherent energy strategy. On the Administration side, the Department of Energy continues to go through a startling series of switches on gas policy. Congress...
...That disbelieving headline appeared in the Toronto Star three years ago, the day after an obscure M.P. from rural Alberta emerged as leader of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party, following a hotly contested convention. The question quickly became a national joke, and the joke led to insults. "Henry Aldrich from Alberta," sniffed one Liberal Cabinet minister...
Kaufman is at his best and most challenging when he does not let anyone in on the joke, doesn't even admit there's a joke at all. The playroom innocence of Kaufman's live show is a touch indulgent, almost always inspired. Sometimes at the beginning, a pretty girl comes out with an invitation to milk and cookies, a promise made good at show's end, when the entire audience is conveyed by bus to a snack with the star. But it is in Tony Clifton, with his crass, abusive desperation, that Kaufman may have...
...appearing in person. "Everyone thinks he's me," Kaufman says. "It's really destroying Tony's career." It is clear that Kaufman's comedy in every incarnation is like a full-dress masque that sets new rules, tests new limits. "I never told a joke in my life," he says, with pride. The essence of his gift, the full range of his promise, is just this simple. Andy Kaufman is not kidding...