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Real People. Tomlin's satire delights in big, powerful targets like the phone company and the FBI. (Ernestine suggests in one skit that her company and the FBI work together, since they both tap phones.) "There is bite in her comedy," says Producer George Schlatter, who gave Tomlin her big break on NBC's Laugh-In in 1969. "But she never goes for a joke outside the character. She won't burn herself out because people are interested in her characters, who are real people...
Puns and innuendos, satire and sometimes crude humor are used in seven of the skits, but is is only in the four in which Allen plays that the humor gets off the ground and is not bogged down by ennui and poor taste. The skit on "What is Sodomy?" in which a doctor falls in love with a sheep is long, boring, and senseless and "Are Transvestites Homosexuals?" assumes that transvestites are inherently funny. They are not. "Are There Sex Perverts?" is particularly offensive. Allen stages a game show "What's My Perversion?" which features a segment in which...
...only dilute the intensity of Portnoy's brilliant lie-down comic routine on the psychoanalyst's couch. Roth's re-Joycing in the scenes of Portnoy's heroic masturbations lose their hilarious dimension and descend pathetically into the baggy-pants scatology of the oldtime burlesque skit...
...skit at a McGovern rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week, Showman Mike Nichols, playing an all-round expert, tried to explain the candidate's economic policy to Worried Liberal Elaine...
...skit at a Nixon rally could hardly have pinked McGovern more deftly in his most vulnerable spot. Earlier this year, as a lightly regarded hopeful in a jammed Democratic field, McGovern laid down an economic program that seemed remarkably precise. Once he began winning primaries, his positions were put to deep analysis. McGovern's figures just did not add up, and the discrepancies were great enough to suggest that the Prairie Populist had not fully thought through his ideas...