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Money & Prizes. The rarest of the rare ones is You Bet Your Life, a quiz show that is little more than an excuse for Groucho Marx, in his cheerful way, to insult six contestants a night. Other unemployed funnymen have tried in vain to duplicate Groucho's success. Fred Allen just does not seem right on NBC's Judge for Yourself, and Herb Shriner on CBS's Two for the Money is far from rivaling Groucho's hold on his audience. When the wit falters, quiz shows usually try to make up for it by giving...
After the crew race, the disconsolate funnymen retired to their dank castle and refused to see reporters or Crimeds. "We'd like to invite you up, "said a spokesman for Updike, "but frankly, we're busted. It's those Halberstam twins, David and Jonathan we're afraid of," he explained...
Fools' Week got off to a crashing start yesterday, and the funnymen's first victim was John P. Coolidge '35, Director of Fogg Museum...
...have crossed home plate the inning is over and the other publication is "at bat." After all this both squads retire to claim a 23 to 2 victory. In the last two years the 'Poon-Crime weekend has been solemnized by a legitimate crew-race, which the funnymen, using paid athletes, have won both times...
...years in show business (several of them spent stooging for Funnymen Hope, Durante, Berle, Kaye) have given Songstress Gibbs a detached sense of criticism. She thinks she can understand the success of a "straight" version of Kiss of Fire. For one thing, the arrangement has life, and she takes some of the credit: the music was a familiar old tango, El Choclo; she decided the brooding rhythm made it "sound like a dirge," souped it up with a beguine tempo. But she also credits the lyrics. They are not too cheerful ("You record a happy song today...