Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less surely handled by Director Peter Glenville or either of the principals, Me and the Colonel would tip over into maudlin sociology or an embarrassing joke. But Actor Kaye, in his first completely straight role, keeps such a clear grasp of Jacobowsky's innate strength that every sly remark creeps through with the force of wisdom as well as the bite of wit. And Germany's Jürgens, curling back his lip and swirling his eyes as he exults, "I sniff battle-I'm alive again!" accomplishes the tricky task of making Actress Maurey...
...Paar stands in the wings alone. The show theme strikes up. Out front, Announcer Hugh Downs, who has been warming up the audience, chuckles with the nightly enthusiasm: "Now here's Jack." In that instant Jack Paar strides onstage, smiling shyly, snapping his fingers. He makes his little joke about hemlines and the men behind the TV cameras smile at him as if they meant it. The show is on its way, following a complex timetable of station breaks and commercials as the network gathers stations and moves west across the night...
...make an announcement that there was a Japanese submarine in the vicinity, but unfortunately the Navy gun crews have driven it off. I say unfortunately because the Japanese submarine was trying to bring us food." Recalls Paar sadly: "The men laughed until they cried. That was the greatest joke of my life...
Died. Eddie Davis, 53, New York cab driver turned hack writer (his own joke), gagman for Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante. Bob Hope, co-author of brassy Broadway musicals (Ankles Aweigh, Follow the Girls); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Davis' career got up on two wheels when Eddie Cantor happened into his crouched-and-waiting cab in 1928. Davis worked some ten years for him, cracked: "Every year he raised my pay but no matter how much money he gave me I still wouldn't marry one of his daughters." Davis provided Jimmy Durante with...
...born full-grown at the age of 63, navigates unendingly across dry land in a sieve." Author Shattuck sees Jarry as a comedian and wizard whose farcical wand-waving expressed a world in which Nietzsche's famed dictum-"God is dead"-was translated into a scandalous joke. Jarry enthusiastically drank absinthe and, near the end of his life, ether (he died at 34). At the theater he wore a dirty white canvas suit and a makeshift paper shirt with the tie painted on in India ink. He was, said Gide, "an incredible figure . . . plaster-faced . . . gotten up like...