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...SHOW. Against a background portrait of the grinning "Me Worry?" symbol, five cavorting performers convey a more or less Mad message through zany skits and impersonations. Thanks to the cast, the show is funnier than its material...
...surprisingly little political satire of Lyndon Johnson. The reason, believes Playwright-Director George Abbott, is that "humor is exaggeration, and President Johnson is his own exaggeration." Kennedy, in short, had a silk hat that could be knocked off by a humorist's snowball; Johnson's Stetson looks funnier on him than knocked...
Thanks to its three-man, two-woman cast, the show is funnier than its material, which takes its style from the sappy smile of Alfred E. Neuman, Mad magazine's trademark moron. The actors do versatile impersonations of the specialized zany-the hi-fi nut, the folksong nut, the technician nut whose means totally dwarf his ends. One of the funniest skits in the show features a TV sportscaster team that, with superb professional aplomb, misses the kickoff, the touchdown play, and even the score of a championship game, while cutting to "our man on the field," interviewing...
...latest and most prodigal of hoke-and-dagger thrillers, is a takeoff on the spoofs that imitate James Bond movies, which already show the strain of excess spoofery. This leaves Flint Director Daniel Mann with little more to do than try the hypothesis that more and more will be funnier and funnier. Instead, the gimmickry congeals...
...born in Shanghai of missionary parents. As a boy I became interested in heaven as depicted in Revelations. I saw nothing jolly in harping and singing praises forever and ever. But I knew God as my friend and was sure He would provide something better and funnier for small folks to do-like sliding down waterfalls in the River of Life or letting my tree-climbing sister climb the Tree of Life. Now I am 77. My hope each evening is that I may have the bliss of falling forever into a deep, dreamless sleep. To me there...