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Their matchless energy finally running low, Brother Plenipotentiary Bobby Kennedy and Hurricane Ethel blew into Washington's National Airport from the last leg of their four-week, 14-country world tour. Eagerly waiting at the field was their brood of seven, which had prepared a skit parodying the parental trip. But before the breathless kids could go onstage, the nation's business intervened again. "We're going to the White House," announced the Attorney General. Wondered his Washington-wise wife: "To get debriefed...
Thus Feiffer himself must have winced during a skit entitled FCC, when the biggest laugh of the afternoon thundered down on an allusion to Robert Welch, that was neither funny nor original. The skit, however, met his demands for fresh commentary, as it turned the Birch Society's rise into the logical extension of Kennedy's plea for a unified, anti-Communist attitude during "this time of crisis...
...skit on the show caught on like The Honeymooners, the ironically titled description of a Brooklyn couple who had been married for ten years and fighting for nine years and twelve months. It was broad, low-median but honest humor, perhaps the best situation comedy that has ever been on television. As Ralph Kramden. husband and bus driver. Gleason stared with massive malevolence at his mother-in-law and pounded the kitchen table, a big man with big gestures under a half-acre of black curls. He looked like a big basset hound who had just eaten W. C. Fields...
...advances. It claims that Kean was a great lover, but Alfred Drake never plays a love scene. Every encounter he has with the two women in his stage life, a Danish countess (Joan Weldon) and a middle-class would-be actress (Lee Venora), is fashioned as a farcical skit...
...court officer of the Queen called the Lord Chamberlain. His jaundiced eye fell upon the lyrics of a song scheduled for a forthcoming revue prophetically entitled The Lord Chamberlain Regrets . . . Noting that the song concerns "the wife of a head of state," the Lord Chamberlain ordered the skit deleted, depriving Londoners of a chance of seeing pert Actress Jill Ireland, 24, impersonate Jacqueline Kennedy. The lyrics...