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There are no women in the diner, or at least none with any speaking lines. Crammed into a tight booth and certain of their terrain, the guys can relax and laugh at the world around them. At the weird kid who memorizes all the lines from the movie Sweet, Sweet Success and recites them to no one in particular. At the enormously obese man who manages to consume all of the items on the left side of the menu--"that's not a human," someone exclaims, "it's a building with legs...
...other nickname-is 63. Between fungoes he steals wistful glances at the kids in the batting cage doing the real hitting, kids who weren't even born when he retired. When he hits a ball over a frantically scrambling young outfielder's head, he gives a cackling laugh and shouts, "Bye! See yah later." An old man's revenge...
According to Robert Vare, one of the project's editors, a key objective was to bring a chuckle or two to businessmen because "people in the financial community need a laugh so badly " If anyone misses the joke, Hendra is planning a future parody of a document so familiar that it can be found in just about every hotel room in the country: Not the Bible, to be published by Ballantine Books this autumn...
Since its infancy, network television has favored two big noises: bang bang and ha ha. This month no fewer than five new dramas and comedies deal with the policeman's lot. Only one of them intentionally offers the viewer anything to laugh at: Police Squad!, the best reason to stay home Thursday nights since Hill Street Blues moved there...
...Zucker and Jerry Zucker, who launched the hit comedy movie Airplane!, are in charge here, and they bring the same sophisticated silliness to such TV cliches as slow-motion deaths and freeze-frame endings. Not the least of the new program's blessings is that it has no laugh track. Appreciative viewers will surely supply their...