Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain from Koepenick (Real-Film; D.C.A.) is a dandy German joke that manages to be only intermittently funny. Now undergoing its third version as a movie, the film is derived from a 1931 play by Carl (The Blue Angel) Zuckmayer, who co-authored the present screenplay. It is the story of a lonely, jobless German shoemaker whose drab world turns into a fairyland of wealth, popularity and authority as soon as he dons the dashing and highly illegal uniform of an army captain...
...lady of the house doesn't want to admit that she can't identify all her drawing-room callers. Too much time is spent talking on the telephone, and the device of having two or three people talk at once is vastly overworked. It is a three-minute joke extended to thirty...
...lolled on the Premier's bench, relaxed and smiling, waving to friends and reporters. When his rivals, Swe and Nyein, entered to a storm of applause, U Nu cordially joined in. In his speech during the temperate six-hour debate, the Buddhist Prime Minister told a scatological joke about a king, his queen, and two domestic animals that convulsed the Deputies, and then won the biggest applause of the day by promising that "as long as I am Prime Minister, our neutrality policy will remain unchanged. I, too, believe Communists should never be put into power. As long...
Acrobatic Garnish. Neither is a secondhand gagster, and both would run at the drop of a joke book. Their humor is literate, and draws more heavily on the glories of the past than the gags of the present...
Unbalanced Accountants. Pals since their boyhood and through the Canadian army, irrepressible Shuster, 41, and volatile Wayne, 39, are solid family men and neighbors in Toronto. They attended Toronto University together, kicked off professionally in 1940 with a radio show, now work out their inspired foolishness in "the joke factory," a tiny upstairs den at Shuster's house lined with learned tomes, as befits two scholars holding bachelor's degrees in English literature. Says Shuster: "In a Julius Caesar scene, we try to do it so no classics professor would quarrel with it." They have also spoofed Mother...