Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their success does not stem from their comedy. Rather, the laughter that arises is merely the nervous reaction of a society that refuses to change the conditions that produce a bigoted Archie, a sad Sanford, or a phony Maude...
...famed "screen scene" fails to det onate with the explosive comic impact it should have, but the cast scores more than enough direct hits of laughter. Pat ty LuPone brings a peppery pique and a sweet contrition to Lady Teazle. As Joseph Surface, the false merchant of noble sentiments, David Ogden Stiers has the smarmy aplomb of a drawing-room lago and marks himself an actor to watch...
...Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Miller's script seems clever enough-or may be just familiar enough--to win sympathy. In a Biblical context, somehow even the worst puns and the broadest slapstick can be funny. As a topic for comedy, the Bible is like sex: embarrassment or guilt provokes laughter where the mere humor of a joke might not. Needless to say. The Creation of the World and Other Business abounds with puns on the colloquial uses of "God," "the devil." "heaven," and "hell," as well as references to Adam and Eve's early sex life. The best of the humor...
...when a mosquito sat on the head of Chertkov [one of Tolstoy's followers], father killed it without a thought. Chertkov turned to him and said, 'Oh, how could you do that, to take the life of an innocent mosquito?' All of us roared with laughter-the narrowness of some of his disciples! But father didn't laugh. He was very confused and that made us laugh still more...
...just Marjoe's Pentecostalist crowds who are exploited, demeaned and manipulated. In Manhattan, where Marjoe is playing to sizable crowds, the reactions are different from those in the gospel big-tops but just as predictable: a lot of laughter, a good deal of patronizing liberal headshaking, a general tsk-tsking over the sorry state of religion. "Look," Marjoe seems to tell the world, "religious people are just as bad as we are." So are some film makers...