Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elaborately arranged stunt-motor carefully removed from the car, movie camera concealed to catch the mechanic's panicky reaction-was typical of Candid Camera, probably the longest-running practical joke in history. For 13 years, the program (known as Candid Microphone in radio days) has kicked about on the networks, intermittently joined the Jack Paar, Steve Allen, and Garry Moore TV shows. This season. Candid Cameraman Allen Funt is back on the air (CBS) with a new half-hour show that features Ar thur Godfrey and Singer Dorothy Collins (the girl in the motorless car) as fellow cards, plus...
...Sister Eileen (CBS) shows the smooth-tooling lines of a slick TV production, with every joke clicking right into place, but also overestimates the amount of new humor that can be choked from the old contest between a scatterbrained actress and her no-nonsense sister. In last week's episode, Eileen (played by Shirley Bonne) caused Sister Ruth (Elaine Stritch) sleepless nights when she invaded the lair of a panting Broadway producer. One genuinely amusing touch: in a nightmare, Big Sister visualizes the producer's office furnished entirely with couches, and flies to the rescue as Super-Ruth...
...litany of torment, in which generation after generation of chosen Levys are burned, torn apart by horses, slashed by Cossacks, impaled on stakes, or drip-tortured in eyes, ears, mouths with molten lead. The rare Just Man who dies in bed regards it as God's inexplicable little joke...
...never good, only necessary, and that we shall try to settle the matter promptly so as to give as much notice as possible to all concerned. Neither of these comments seems to have survived into print. But no increase in the cost of a college education is a joke, and I fear that our joint carelessness may have given a wrong impression to many students. For my part I apologize, and I hope your reporter may join me. McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Hanna-Barbera shop is efficient but unconventional. Hanna and Barbera work harder and longer than anyone else. Hanna is the timer, who computes the mathematical intricacies of matching dialogue to action and budgeting the exact number of frames necessary to build each joke and each dissolve. Barbera, who can draw almost as fast as he can talk, does the planning-stage sketch work, can create a fully plotted storyboard (a sort of cartoon outline with dialogue) in five hours...