Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might take a trip to Georgia, he said: "What are you asking me for? You can go anywhere in the world." Now Mrs. Miller seems to feel she is cheating the Digest if she doesn't go to Europe at least once a year. A stock Digest joke has four Rovers meeting in the middle of the Sahara, and finding that they are all on the same story. Along with bonuses, Wally sends his editors and Rovers warm notes of praise. An "especially fine job of cutting" may bring his note that an editor "deserves the Distinguished Service Medal...
Sumner recalls one instance where sex helped out attendance considerably. "About 15 years ago we had a rather ordinary picture called "The Animal Kingdom" with Leslie Howard as the star. The first day it did just ordinary business, but after that word got out about just one joke in the film and we had hordes of students in for the next two days. The scene that got them was when Howard stepped out on a balcony, took a deep breath, and shouted inside to his house-keepers, "My heavens, James, it's very cold out. You better bring...
...still good for a boff. Mauldin deals with men who are living with death, and death is not funny at all. It is uncomfortable to watch, and even from Mauldin's tough, cynical view-point, it is not good for those who want to be titillated. This is no joke book. It is a serious book, and a fine...
...Yorker's" cartoons were, from the first, as distinctive as its short stories. They are a commentary on modern, metropolitan life. As Peter Arno puts it in his introduction to his collection (1926-51), "Ladies and Gentlemen." "Harold Ross, in starting the "New Yorker" cost out the stale joke, the pun, the he-and-she formula. . . . In their place developed . . . a humor related to everyday life; believable, based on carefully thought-out, integrated situations...
...Make It Legal (20th Century-Fox) is billed as a comedy, but the joke is on Claudette Colbert. Last year a back injury kept her from playing the Bette Davis role in All About Eve; she has filled her commitment to 20th Century-Fox in Let's Make It Legal. The injury turns out to have put her in double jeopardy by shifting her from 1950-3 best comedy to one of 1951'S worst. The film also traps Macdonald Carey and Zachary Scott in a dreary mishmash about a man wooing his wife all over again against...