Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black mannerisms when playing with other whites. Reports Schafft: "Finger snapping and bottom twisting accompany a 'Hey, man, you're goin' get it!' or, looking at the floor, head tilted, a white child will do a short dance, just before the punch line of a joke...
Such incidents not only received nationwide coverage, but inspired some new additions to a recent phenomenon: the Ford joke. As an accident-prone President with an amiable but bumbling style, Ford has become a straight man for columnists, gagwriters and partygoers. Ford has "become the country's leading target for jokes," Show Biz Chronicler Earl Wilson wrote last week. "Gone was all reverence for the No. 1 position in the land." The Washington Post's Nicholas von Hoffman called Ford "President Klutz," "Mr. Ten Thumbs," "the Great Flub-Dub" and "Old Bungle-Foot," all in a single column...
...most humorous material on Ford is visual, not verbal. On NBC'S comedy show Saturday Night, Actor Chevy Chase often opens the program by stumbling into his lectern. Says Chase: "Ford is so inept that the quickest laugh is the cheapest laugh, and the cheapest is the physical joke...
...There are several variations on this joke, including the accident in Hartford, Conn., when Ford's Lincoln was hit by a Buick. Alert Secret Service agents seized the Buick and wrestled it to the ground. When the President got out to see what had happened, he stuck his thumb in his eye. Alert Secret Service agents seized the thumb and wrestled it to the ground. When Ford miscalculated and bumped his head in a Florida swimming pool, the pool was also wrestled to the ground...
...Shaw's high entertainment, Nightwork. A young pilot prematurely grounded by an eye ailment, Grimes answers the musical question: "What if $100,000 should fall into my lap?" That is almost literally what happens to him in the most improbable of settings - the St. Augustine Hotel (semibitter religious joke here), a Manhattan charnel house where Grimes works as night clerk...