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...lectern, Kushner opened with "Whether or not you agree that the world needs a humor consultant, I think you'll agree that it can use one less attorney" and got a laugh. He went on to point out that humor was important in sales because "people pay more attention to humor. Maybe you don't think so, but remember the class clown? We always listened...
...Gretzky,' it just doesn't feel right." After practice, shuttling teammates require his signature on posters and sticks for causes of their own. "But there's already a signature printed on it," he complains. "Yeah, but that's a phony, just like you. Sign it, you little jerk." They laugh brightly...
...nancy" to his wife and a "festering, bunion-scraping little pillock" to the local GP. The cheery camaraderie of Britain's postwar Ealing comedies has given way to pig-eat-pig biliousness--which would be fine if Bennett (An Englishman Abroad) and Mowbray did not engage in something like laugh rationing. This is an Animal Farm that could have used a taste of Animal Crackers. --By Richard Corliss...
...Russian accents, the "Drowned Man" scene, in which David Angel employs a hilarious Monty Python accent, would have seemed more consistent. Other excesses of voice and gesture occur too much at random to be enjoyable and too much to be believably off-beat. In going for the cheap laugh, Goldman unfortunately loses his otherwise perfectly Chekhovian control and his sense of comic plausibility...
...overly zealous medical student, a demented energy is always present He also exhibits many of the characteristic excesses of the show. His weasel-like voice in the first and last scenes is a little too much, as is his constant stooping But his energy consistently gets a laugh...