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...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Bing Crosby hosts George Burns, Sid Caesar, the Mamas and the Papas, and Soprano Jane Marsh, winner of the recent Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
...arranger, Sid Bass, deserves a far more prominent billing than the one afforded him: He has been forced to reach deep into his bag of tricks, coming up with virtually every phoney-baloney recording studio technique of goosing one non-existent voice and twelve non-existent melody lines into a passable record. The resulting styles skip from Chinese to Calypso, by way of a plethora of hoked-up Folk Rock, and the one catchy tune, Bamiba, turns out to be an old Kingston Trio favorite, complete with only slightly altered lyrics. This theft, I must add, is in the best...
Television, the disseminator of most current American comedy, has abdicated originality in favor of the safe and same. As recently as ten years ago, such comedians as Sid Caesar and Ernie Kovacs were savagely satirizing everything from fatherhood to French movies. Today on TV, comedy is rarely allowed to lumber into view unless preceded by its keeper-situation. Perhaps, too, it was inevitable that once man found a way to can the stuff of life he would some day find a way to can the stuff of the soul-laughter. Canned laughter is everywhere; TV has become a robot talking...
...Mort Sahl, once a master of the form, is as hard fo find as an old Will Rogers routine; his last television show lasted two weeks. Monologuist Bob Newhart, one of a line of snipers who picked off American postures and pretensions, is rarely seen on TV nowadays, and Sid Caesar has not been seen regularly since 1964. Mike Nichols and Elaine May, who took the Ins and made them Out to be a group of phonies, seldom appear together any more...
...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). TV tries hard to forget its former favorites, but here's a cup of kindness for Auld Prime Timers Arthur Godfrey and Sid Caesar...