Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...melodies which will cause the waving of college colors will doubtless be the patriotic song, "Yankee Dewey went to Sea Upon a Cruiser," a parody on "Yankee Doodle;" a pretty child ballad based on "Jack and Jill," and a ditty concerning a theatre cat. This latter is perhaps the funniest ditty of all. It is sung by Lawrence Kearney, who tells how, by applying hair restorer to the fur of the feline, it eventually became a muff, worn by one of the "400" down Broadway. A special rate is accorded for Harvard Night on presentation of the Harvard Co-operative...
...opportunity of seeing one of the funniest of all Irish farce comedies, which will be given the entire week of March 1, at the Columbia Theatre. It is the much talked of "Hogan's Alley," especially adapted for the amusement of the fun loving public, and a picture taken from real life; the characters of Hogan and Brogan being portrayed by the great comedians Gilmore and Leonard, rightfully known as Ireland's Kings, supported by a company of reputable performers of rare ability. Speaking of wasted energy, one can not cease to marvel at the large ingenuity expended in this...
Artie, by George Ade (H. S. Stone and Co., Chicago) should find a place in every library as the funniest book of the year. Like "Chimmie Fadden," it was originally published in newspaper form and its wonderful popularity induced the publishers to bring it out in book form. It is the story of a typical "mucker" office boy, Artie, whose slangy conversations are extremely funny. He styles all college men as "rah rah boys" and describes them from an office boy's point of view. Mr. McCutcheon's illlustrations, with the decorative buckram cover make it a handsome volume...
...usual the specialties are the funniest feature of the play. "The Prisoner of Sunday," an absurd burlesque on the Prisoner of Zenda, by Schurz and Knoblauch, is the cleverest. The X-ray specialty by M. E Stone, Jr., '97 and H. A. Curtis '96 is very funny, and the Tyrolean dance by F. S. Hoppin '96 and H. B. Fenno '97 is both graceful and picturesque...
...attraction at the Park Theatre for this week, is Hoyt's funniest play, "A Black Sheep," which last season ran three months at that house, and was taken off only because of engagements elsewhere that could not be cancelled. The company is still headed by that bright and clever comedian, Otis Harlan, whose impersonation of Goodrich Mudd, otherwise known as "Hot Stuff," the young man who prefers to remain in Tombstone rather than go to New York and enjoy the fortune bequeathed him, is remembered by play...