Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then he broke into a wild, stomping version of the hardest thing in my act, me.--He shuffled back away from the mike, bending his knees and clapping with laughter at the joke--stomping around, belting it out and jumping Jim Crow all the way off stage, to tremendous applause. then he had to come right back out, panting, because he had promised to do Charlie Pride but I wouldn't want to get Charlie outta place for you, you gotta have him last. This time they stood up to applaud...
...simpler epoch. If it was repetitious, it allowed each listener to color the backgrounds and populate the casts with the agility of a dreamer. (As any oldtime listener can testify, the five senses are not necessarily great collaborators. Film comedy, after all, never achieved the same explosive laughter once sound came in. Conversely, broadcast drama was never as gripping once pictures accompanied the words...
Their only hope lies in alcoholic pipe-dreams. Their fondest desire is a visit from Hickey, a gladhanding traveling salesman who conjures inexplicable laughter out of the barflies' brimming cups with the tale of how his lonely wife is finding sexual solace with an iceman...
...nose-heavy plane from a small, landlocked waterway known as the Walakpa Lagoon. The bodies were found by Eskimos, and a world went into mourning. Why? Because the years from World War I to the Great Depression were times for tears. Will Rogers often diluted them with laughter. His contemporary jokes have not worn perfectly, but they have worn welland, as the sampling below suggests, some are surprisingly timely 40 years...
...this production a special bow should go to Director Stephen Porter, who keeps the pace as antic as a berserk windup toy. Should you care to get intoxicated on laughter, Chemin de Per is a madcap nightcap of a show. T.E.K