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...year is 1978. Henny Youngman has lapsed into senility; "Can You Top This?" has gone the way of "Leave It to Beaver," and the Harvard Lampoon has been bought by Larry Flynt, who promises to turn it into a "mostly serious" fundamentalist humor magazine. Rife preprofessionalism, proto-professionalism and postprofessionalism have sent Harvard's aspiring humorists packing off to Lamont, Baker and Langdell for the execution of life's harsh sentence: NO MORE FUNNY BUSINESS, KIDS. There are only 100 jokes left on the planet Earth, produced and sustained in a Harvard p-3 laboratory with a secret fluid extracted...
MUSIC, THEY SAY, hath charms to soothe the savage breast; but just imagine what it can do for an anthology of bad jokes. Add a big brassy orchestra, maybe toss in some snappy choreography to back it up, and even Henny Youngman would make a passable musical comedy lyricist. Or look at it the other way: Take away the Richard Rodgers score, and Oscar Hammerstein would probably come off a lot like Jerry Van Dyke. The conclusion is clear, that in the musical comedy business the first commandment is: Say it with music--or else. Authors and directors...
...Henny Youngman notwithstanding, there is nothing less funny than poorly written satire. Bernard's, an Austrian playwright, attempts in The President to make a political statement about decaying leaders and regimes versus the forces of anarchy and/or revolution through black humor. Unfortunately for Bernard and worse still for the audience, The President has the most boring, inane, meaningless script produced at Harvard this year. The play is simply terrible, and the production isn't much better...
...checking their past response to a similar situation and then reprinting it verbatim. Category #4--Again, a one-man grouping. Although others have tried to advance up the ladder into this prestigious class, the sole individual who can claim membership is track mentor Bill McCurdy, the Henny Youngman of Dillon Field House and a retired lieutenant colonel of the United States Army Reserve...
During the second hour, smaller groups of students are drilled in the same lesson by apprentice teachers (juniors or seniors). With about as many routines as Henny Youngman-and his speed to boot-the apprentice whizzes around the class getting students to repeat what they have learned. The pace demands that each student make 65 responses an hour. Drills include imaginary telephone conversations, mock press conferences with "visiting dignitaries" and a wide variety of word games. The apprentice teacher, in effect, acts as a living language lab, snapping his fingers at each student for responses. Rassias' instructions: "Never...