Word: razzing
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...SATIRE. Some commercials kid themselves, some razz the production style of various other products. A Jeno's pizza skit kids the halitosis hucksters. Marilyn says: "I'll tell you what your problem is, Gloria. You have bad pizza. Bad pizza!" After Gloria switches to Jeno's, Marilyn tries another tack: "Now I'd like to talk about your deodorant." Gloria: "Marilyn, how would you like a nice belt in the mouth?" A small masterpiece, worthy of Jonathan Winters or the late Ernie Kovacs...
...financier who sends million-dollar checks to strangers. A colorless clerk played by Charles Laughton receives his check in the mail, goes to the president of his company, sticks out his tongue and delivers a loud Bronx cheer. Blackout. In those precarious years, the vicarious thrill of giving a razz to the boss was irresistible-to say nothing of the complex moral that a nobody can suddenly acquire the money that can't buy happiness...
...Batman holding a tiger and wheezing "Whew!"). They talk like suburban eighth graders about Camus and psychoanalysis and how their generation doesn't know itself but can't accept the values of the past and how free of prejudice they are (their best friends are an unmarried Negro couple, Razz and Helen) and how they're not going to let a silly bourgeois conscience get in the way of their search of identity. You see, Tom and Teena have rationally decided, with the help of their analysis (don't all young people have analysis these days, especially when they...
...just cry and cry. You see, life had to teach them something -- that they can't run away from themselves. But don't worry! Etc. isn't grim. The play's main excuse for entertainment (it is supposed to be funny) is the debunking of Tom and Teena by Razz and Pinky (orphan Tom's fairy guardian) and then the tender undercutting of Pinky and Mrs. Bigelow (Teena's Greenwich-bred mother...
...just so long as they're tight--you all look like sexy rejects from a poor farm," (absolutely the best line). Teena to Tom: "My psychoanalyst happens to be a great man and I won't have you hinting that your psychoanalyst is better than mine!" Mrs. Bigelow to Razz (watch the clever undercutting in this one): "I've never known a Negro before--socially that is--of course I'm not at all prejudiced--I'm a member of the Urban League...