Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fresh observation about situations which really exist. American comedians have failed on both counts, having created a swarm of strereotyped, false figures without saying anything original about them. Now, the critical humorists of the late fifties he said (including himself) are also tempted to exploit the easy, tested laugh; "twenty years ago a comedian just had to say Brooklyn. Now it's Madison Avenue...
Thus Feiffer himself must have winced during a skit entitled FCC, when the biggest laugh of the afternoon thundered down on an allusion to Robert Welch, that was neither funny nor original. The skit, however, met his demands for fresh commentary, as it turned the Birch Society's rise into the logical extension of Kennedy's plea for a unified, anti-Communist attitude during "this time of crisis...
Jules Feiffer told a WHRB panel yesterday that people laugh at his cartoons from inside--because they feel some connection or identity" with the attitude he is ridiculing...
...more than a big ball of fluff when we see a show. Lute, Flute is a revue, of course, and it would be unfair to expect it to be fraught with meaning for our time. But as authors, Mr. Morey and Mr. Paul have consistently gone for the easy laugh. Somebody says "Barry Goldwater," and the audience breaks up, the way people used to at the mention of Brooklyn; and everybody feels great because he's in on the joke. But the situation is rarely exploited; brilliant ideas for scenes die as the authors milk the obvious punchline...
...latest book, The Rising Gorge, Perelman's humor seems broader than in the past. He indulges frequently in the kind of wisecrack that makes the reader laugh out loud, instead of trying to evoke only nods and smiles. "And look at me today. How old a man would you say I was?" a health faddist asks Perelman...