Word: farting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cysts, headaches, flu, bursitis. Beckett tried to fight by drinking heavily and flying into periodic rages. When these attempts failed, he began cultivating an air of contemptuous indifference to the world and its pains. "All I want to do," he told a friend, "is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante...
MARTIN CONSTANTLY catches his audience off-guard. He offers a solution to the population problem--impose the death penalty for parking violations. He tells the audience what to do in uncomfortable situations. When someone asks you if you mind him smoking, simply reply, "No, mind if I fart? It's a habit I have...
...whole seems to be oriented towards the innocuous and forgettable thesis, "Wasn't it fun to be a kid?" Carlin is certainly successful in making people laugh, but there is no catharsis in recalling All Those Great Jokes everybody used to pull in grade school--gags like "the artificial fart under the arm" and the marathon burp. All humor does not derive from pathos. Silliness is also a consideration...
Blazing Saddles. More from Mel. A slicker effort than The Producers, but no less insistent. Brooks plays on our prejudices, particularly about blacks and black sexual prowess. He revels in bawdiness of all varieties--no one else has been quite as successful in eliciting the comedy inherent in a fart--and in incongruities--outlaws slugging horses and old women, black cowboys with Gucci saddlebags...
With its insistent use of racial slurs, its delight over words like "shit" and "fart," and an occasional gratuitous nude body, Tunnelvision is just like TV, only filthy. TV's story concepts are shallow copies of one another, and so are Tunnelvision's. TV news is flat, superficial and preoccupied with appearance. So is Tunnelvision's parody of it. With nothing more going for it than a high recognition factor for what it spoofs, Tunnelvision is an empty repetitious imitation of an empty, repetitious imitation. And, to paraphrase Santayana, one wasteland is enough...