Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year old man became a private joke that Reiner and Brooks occasionally shared with friends in show business. But the bicentenaries's fame spread, and in 1960 Steve Allen persuaded them to record some of their material. That tape turned into 2000 years with Reiner and Brooks. 2001 Years with Reiner and Brooks and Reiner and Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival followed quickly, and though neither enjoyed the popularity of the first album, a large cult of Reiner-Brooks fans mourned when the old man was put out to pasture...
...then he broke into a wild, stomping version of the hardest thing in my act, me.--He shuffled back away from the mike, bending his knees and clapping with laughter at the joke--stomping around, belting it out and jumping Jim Crow all the way off stage, to tremendous applause. then he had to come right back out, panting, because he had promised to do Charlie Pride but I wouldn't want to get Charlie outta place for you, you gotta have him last. This time they stood up to applaud...
When Getty disappeared after a late night out in Rome last July 10, police were skeptical that he was a kidnap victim. Nobody had actually seen him captured, and police learned that the fun-loving youth had joked with friends about how easy it would be to stage his own kidnaping. Then, early in November, an envelope was delivered to the Rome daily Il Messaggero. It contained a lock of reddish hair and a severed human ear. "This is Paul's first ear," read a typewritten note. "If within ten days the family still believes that this...
NINETY PER CENT of "Peabody Terrace," written and produced by the Harvard Law (Musical) Revue, is one big Law School in-joke, ringing with parody of legalistic double-talk, full of what is probably an over-identification with said revered institution. This is too bad from an undergraduate's point of view: I had to ask someone in the men's room during intermission what in the world Ames court competition was; and it was hard to follow the constant refrain of "Langdell this, Langdell that" which runs through the show when I only get a vague image of dusty...
...town at 17, she has come back for what she calls justice: nothing less than the life of her then youthful betrayer Anton Schill (John Me Martin), now an amiable, bumbling shopkeeper and a town favorite. Responding in outrage, the townspeople treat Clara's offer as a macabre joke. However, they promptly proceed to plunge into debt on the supposition that Clara will bail them out without the sacrificial killing. Finally faced with the alternatives of penury or plenty, the citizens stage a trial in which Schill is condemned to death as a kind of enemy of the people...