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...nothing else, TV offered the elaborate spoofs of Sid Caesar's Show of Shows. Mort Sahl, carrying a rolled-up newspaper like a blunt weapon, had set almost academic standards for the stand-up comedian as social critic. Lenny Bruce, Salvationist manque, was preaching his credo of holy scatology and apocalypse, "trying to panic people into laughing," as Sahl...
...first three weeks, Cavett has deftly handled such disparate talents as Truman Capote, Joe Namath, Candice Bergen, Rex Reed, Gloria Steinem and Mort Sahl. Coming on like an urbane Henry Fonda, he asks a few questions, grins puckishly now and again, then sits back to let guests earn their...
Last fall, the show drew crowds with two people together in the Bic or the Square or Joe's Bar--a single theme, clever dialogue, and an intellectual's slap-stick. Borrowing heavily now from the Mort Sahl throw-away lines and the California humor of the Fireside Theater, the new sketches weave in third and fourth parts for stage interlopers, creating a more expansive humor. Dropping in an outsider's irrelevancies make a situation comedy less staged...
Irreverence toward the high and mighty was revived in the nightclubs and on TV by such iconoclasts as Mort Sahl, Dick Gregory and the late Lenny Bruce. In magazines, the door was opened by such immoderates as Ramparts and Evergreen. The result has been the rise of a new generation of political caricaturists who consider no public figure too sacred, no insult too excessive. The front lines are manned by established satirists like Jules Feiffer, David Levine and Ronald Searle. Behind them, a new platoon of caricaturists is fast moving up. And one of the best is a Manhattan commercial...
...mental illness of the superior officer's wife, and finally lands on the theme it ends with, the even stranger, growing infatuation of Miss Taylor's husband (Marlon Brando) with the enlisted man. Reflections even injects a slight dose of anti-Semitism, in much the way that Mort Sahl used to ask if there were any groups he had not offended. A sort of something-for-everyone approach to film-making...