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Herbert is an extremely serious man who is always making jokes, and his biggest jokes are the most serious. But to take him seriously is to make him laff. To laff, as they tell you in Dublin, is not the same thing as to laugh; Laughter is a nervous reaction. Laffing is an expression of selfcriticism, of anguish...
...young woman to call a policeman or pull the communication cord. And when he tries to explain himself, he is seized with a stammer which still further alarms the lady. The situation, as he expected from the beginning, then becomes hopeless. The lady has hysterics, and Herbert can only laff at the whole disaster...
...natcherly) strawnger So Churchill hokay in a seer ius way But a (sob) laff is more needed by pipple...
...action that makes "They Got Me Covered" a five-star, on-the-nose, A-1 priority laff fest. Give me Groucho Marx for slapstick and Charlie Chaplin for pantomine. No, Hope is best when he is talking. He has a microphone personality and a master-of-ceremonies approach. Unlike your fat-and-thin combos (Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Maxwell & Winchell), with Hope the ceremonies themselves don't seem to matter. Nobody cares what this quipping correspondent is doing; they just want to hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They...
...action that makes "They Got Me Covered" a five-star, on-the-nose, A-1 priority laff fest. Give me Groucho Marx for slapstick and Charlie Chaplin for pantomime. No. Hope is best when he is talking. He has a microphone personality and a master-of-ceremonies approach. Unlike your fat-and-thin combos (Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Maxwell & Winchell), with Hope the ceremonies themselves don't seem to matter. Nobody cares what this quipping correspondent is doing; they just want to hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They...