Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fresh idea comes on the air, TV programmers can be counted on to run it into the ground. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. spawned The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Shindig stirred Hullabaloo. The Beverly Hillbillies called forth Petticoat Junction and then Green Acres. Now it's the turn of Laugh-In and The Smothers Brothers...
Midseason replacement schedules include three Smothers Brothers or Rowan and Martin derivatives-and a fourth, an all-Negro Laugh-In, may yet be added by NBC. ABC will carry a still untitled show by Laugh-In Producers George Schlatter and Ed Friendly, introducing a group of unknown comics. What's It All About, World?, starring Dean Jones and produced by Saul Ilson and Ernest Chambers, originators of The Smothers Brothers, will also go on ABC. CBS will pick up another corporate effort by Smo-Bros Productions, The Glenn Campbell Goodtime Hour, featuring frequent visitations by Pat Paulsen. Among...
...truth makes us laugh; to be happy is to know that something exists...
...will people drift out of the particular absurdities they now languish in and start speaking in a new idiom different from the one Vonnegut's characters used to speak? And would such an occurrence make the then readers unable to recognize the truth in the writing and hence not laugh? Well, fundamentally I believe that it is the cliches that will never change, that, as our society mechanizes itself into inactivity, will still form the core base of something familiar...
...theories concerning power, money, work, and conscience. Of all Shaw's outpourings, this is perhaps the most purely comic in tone, and therefore affords a splendid view of the craftsman at work, of a half century of theatrical experience synthesized into two hours and some odd of laugh piled upon laugh. That the play also manages to come briefly to grips with a serious theme is, well, downright remarkable...