Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Playgoers are almost forced to ponder the nature of humor by Comedians. It is a hilarious-abrasive, funny-unfunny analysis-cwra-demonstration of why we laugh at all. Six Manchester men with dead-end jobs aspire to be entertainers in workingmen's clubs, with a possible whack at the London big time. Each act is one leg of a tripod-final warmup, audition, postmortem...
...teacher is an old pro, Eddie Waters (Jimmy Jewel), whose last laugh seems to have long been buried in the creases of his face. As his pupils sprint apprehensively through their routines -ethnic, absurd one liners, godawful -Eddie offers his philosophy of comedy: "A real comedian dares to see what his listeners shy away from, fear to express. A joke releases the tension, but a true joke has to do more than release tension, it has to liberate the will and the desire, it has to change the situation...
...either and coming out of XXX Bookstores and lying in the gutter, so you went into the theater and saw this show with happy songs--"happiness is two kinds of ice cream"--and a dog that sings and guy whose kite won't fly, only you didn't laugh at any of the jokes 'cause they weren't funny, only the chaperone...
Whatever the nature of Charlie Brown's appeal, it is probably directed at a non-sixth grade audience. The little girl sitting next to me, who confessed at intermission that she uses a Snoopy toothbrush every night, didn't laugh once the whole time; her parents, sitting behind her, couldn't have guffawed any louder. So maybe you should see Charlie Brown, especially if you didn't get it the first time around, but how about doing the kids a favor and sending them to see The Beggar's Opera instead...
Since then, "Saturday Night" has be ome the most talked a out show since "Laugh-in." Its ratings have consistently climbed, and the waiting period for one of the 200-odd tickets to see it live is over four months. Several of the regular actors, who bill themselves as "The Not Ready For Prime Time Players," have received offers for movie or situation-comedy roles. The standout comedian, Chevy Chase, is considered the heir-apparent to Johnny Carson ("The Tonight Show"). And "Saturday Night" has done all this at a fraction of the cost of a six million dollar woman...