Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York Times and begins reading headlines of the day, complete with quips and off-the-cuff observations. A scorecard at the end of the first five minutes shows that exactly one joke was funny. To look at all the gray-haired ladies splitting their sides with laughter, however, makes one wonder if maybe his humor is an adult thing, like knowing how to fill out a tax form. Mort Sahl's audience loves...
...television is going to get us." It's the film's most disingenuous line. The bigwigs may have escaped punishment, but the scandals rocked TV as nothing before or since: quiz shows vanished from the air, ethical standards were drastically tightened (CBS President Frank Stanton even proposed banning canned laughter), and the industry suffered a black eye that took decades to heal. "Get television" is exactly what Goodwin and his colleagues did. Quiz Show does too; it just doesn't have the grace to admit...
...Laughter and camaraderie mixed with orders of french fries and Italian subs. As always, study-stressed Adams House residents came to eat greasy pizza and unwind with a few games of pinball...
...always mates." Food for thought, perhaps, but only to the very hungry. As for Hugo, he gives lectures, largely left to the imagination, that provoke women and men to hug him afterward. And a rather vapid remark he makes comparing a mother and a wife arouses "uproarious laughter...
...resist indulging his overt, slap-in-the-face style. Has this man never heard of subtlety? One of the many instances occurs when Mickey comes to save Mallory. The entire episode is packaged as a sitcom fully equipped with fake, plastic decor creating a surreal aura reinforced by track laughter. This seems acceptable enough. Yet Stone takes what could have been a clever idea and pretentiously exploits it beyond meaning. The modern-day knight arrives enrobed in his bloody butcher shop apron carrying 50 pounds of raw meat. His scantily-clad damsel in distress comes down the stairs, their eyes...