Word: sickniks
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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Other shows revert to reruns; "Smiley's" once-a-week vaudeville simply calls back some of its most interesting stars. This week: Sicknik Comedian Shelley Berman, Opera Star Roberta Peters, Ventriloquist Rickie Layne...
Mort Sahl, 32, the original sicknik, now makes $300,000 a year, but still manages to see the worm in the golden apple. Right alongside Sahl in the hierarchy of disease is Jonathan Winters, 33, a roly-poly brainy-zany who has spent most of the past two months as a patient in his favorite subject for humor: the funny farm. While these two once seemed more or less alone in their strange specialty, it is now clear that the virus has spread. Perhaps a dozen other sickniks-some newcomers, some oldtimers with brand-new syndromes-are cleaning...
...sicknik mood and method range all the way from the wistful social desperation of Elaine May and Mike Nichols, who are barely sick at all-just an occasional mild symptom-to the usually vicious barrage of Lenny Bruce. Where Elaine and Mike meditate on the problem of a stranded motorist who has lost his last dime, or a boss quietly trying to drink a secretary into submission. Newcomer Bruce, 33, likes to defend Leopold and Loeb: ''Bobby Franks was snotty...