Word: titters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Every second of uneasy silence is a little death. I launch into my monologue: "You've been reading about Kenneth Starr and grand-jury leaks. Well, I can't get one. I'm the Rodney Dangerfield of investigative reporters." A small laugh, less than a guffaw, more than a titter. But that's all I need. I'm launched...
Although most of the humor in Punch and Judy Get Divorced is clean, this musical does have underlying sexual themes. In Part One, the two Pollys (the musical's term for unmarried Judys), played well by Pashalinski and Grate, titter about their sexual exploits in "The Polly Song." Part Two reaches a new level of sexual complexity, as Judy baby's husband runs away from her to be with another man. (Of her husband's male friends who used to come visit, she sings bitterly that they were "envying me and flirting with him" instead of the other way round...
Rumble audiences may titter at the naive plot (the director is Stanley Tong), but they will gasp at Chan's lithe, lightning reflexes when he takes on five creeps in a deli or executes a jump from one high building to another. You watch these impossible stunts with fear and gratitude for the hardest-working man in show biz. To see your first Jackie Chan movie is to fall in love with what the movies once were: a comic ballet of bodies in motion...
...Tonight appearance on Monday, Grant's obvious nervousness ("I've never been one to, you know, blow my own trumpet") made the audience titter. But as his magical misery tour moved through the week, he gradually learned how to perform in this difficult role: part humiliation, part wry soldiering on. With King, he called his grandmother in as a character witness, quoting her as saying, "What I tell people, darling, is that you had a few drinks with the boys and then got a bit fresh with the girls--and leave it at that...
...being able to deliver in plummy accents words like "moist" or "orifice." Usually they reduce audiences to hysterical convulsions, especially if the joke is surmounted with a veiled reference to flatulence. One particular guru of such humour, Frankie Howard, built a lifetime's personal luxury on his catchphrase "Titter ye not"; favourite stunts of his included the "naked buttock scene," to be outdone by one alternative comedian's exploding groin show...