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High in the Himalayas lives the Guru of Low Comedy, surrounded by his tapes of Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields and the brothers Zucker. "Great Master, what is the secret of a hit?" ask Hollywood's best and richest when they are ushered into his presence. "Make 'em laugh," is the inevitable reply, "any damn...
...hope you'll laugh until you scream...
...says he uses humor to counter sneers he receives from Harvard students. "A lot of [Harvard students] act like I have typhoid, they look the other way," he says. "I'll tease them and say 'Smile' or tell them 'It's only a hundred-dollar donation.' That gets a laugh...
Villiote is somewhat self-deprecating in her appraisal of her feats. She calls most of her save records "dubious," and admits with a laugh, "the fact that I've faced over 1700 shots is kind of scary...
Allen found humor useful in prison. He made the meanest guards laugh by putting pictures of Richard Nixon in the peephole of his cell when they made their rounds. Later he staged comedy shows for the other inmates. Once, while riding a bus to another prison, he managed to slip out of his handcuffs. The only thing he could think to do was bum a cigarette off the old bank robber sitting in front of him. "I reached into his shirt pocket with the handcuff on one hand, and then tapped him on his other shoulder to get a match...