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...German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt may be in the market for a new gagwriter. During a tour of an army camp, Schmidt reportedly cracked a creaky old World War II joke about Italian tanks having five gears, one forward and four reverse. When Die Welt printed the Chancellor's jape, the Italian government was not amused. Schmidt's aides promptly reached for their own reverse gears. Accepting German denials that Schmidt had ever made the remark, the Italian embassy in Bonn declared the case closed. "After all," an official observed diplomatically, "Germany and Italy are NATO allies and members...
Screening Room. Guests include Standish Lawder, Luce Visiting Professor of Film Study, and film maker Robert Nelson. Films: "Grateful Dead," "Off Hand Jape." CH. 5. 1:05 a.m. Color...
These proceedings might have turned out to be pretty shabby without the presence of first-rate actors who can turn any scene, without warning, into a jape or a jolt. Cassavetes, who took the role to get money to finish his 1968 film, Faces, looks rumpled, intense and angry as McCain and manages to invest this antiheroic part with some characteristic bits of melancholy...
lust what is legal tender in Britain? Answer: anything you can write a check on-even the backside of a cow. So last week, as a 60th anniversary jape in honor of all the years that Punch's leading humorist, A.P. Herbert, has spent with the magazine, two policemen led a cow into Barclays bank with a ?5 check written on its hide. Herbert endorsed bossie and collected his money. The drollery may have seemed a trifle fey, but there was a point to it. Herbert, a former M.P. and a crusader for liberalized divorce laws, is best known...
American humor in its traditional forms -the wisecrack, the tall tale, the deadpan jape, the shaggy-dog story -has both resisted the official puritanism and made it all possible. For more than two centuries, from that subversive puritan Ben Franklin to the wryly theological Charles Schulz, the nation's humorists have operated as a tolerated underground culture. They have conspired to create a fantasy world where good Americans could be as shiftless as Charlie Chaplin's tramp, as cynical as W.C. Fields never-giving-a-sucker-an-even-break, as lecherous as Groucho Marx prowling a bedroom. American...