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...woman stand in a line for some undisclosed event, and each one wants to be first. By trickery, by cajolery, by avarice, by lechery, by pure New Yorky pushing and shoving, each, in turn, supplants the other at the head of the line. It is rather like a stand-up game of musical chairs, and though it has a goodly quota of laughs, it goes on too long for what...
Honeymooning with Bride China Lee, 28, a onetime Bunny trainer, Stand-Up Satirist Mort Sahl, 43, invited the press to his Playboy Club Apartments penthouse in London and let fly. Mort's missiles zapped, among others: President Nixon ("If you were drowning 20 feet offshore, he'd throw you an eleven-foot rope and point out he was meeting you more than halfway"); Movie Stars Dustin Hoffman, Elliott Gould and Richard Benjamin ("If any of those guys had been my roommate in college I couldn't have gotten him a date"); his host, Playboy Hugh Hefner...
...hits of 1971. John's first U.S. tour-last week he all but filled the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and two weeks ago jammed Manhattan's Fillmore East four times in two nights-shows off a natural stage presence and timing worthy of a veteran stand-up comic...
...nothing else, TV offered the elaborate spoofs of Sid Caesar's Show of Shows. Mort Sahl, carrying a rolled-up newspaper like a blunt weapon, had set almost academic standards for the stand-up comedian as social critic. Lenny Bruce, Salvationist manque, was preaching his credo of holy scatology and apocalypse, "trying to panic people into laughing," as Sahl...
...excursions. This time the itinerary was Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, Colorado and Missouri. In style, Pat has suffered in comparison with Jackie; for energy and charm, she has been no match for Lady Bird. But last week she borrowed a presidential 707; her predecessors never did that. Pat held four stand-up press conferences, sharing the microphones with students active in volunteer programs and responding to questions with the proper combination of starch and good humor; Jackie and Lady Bird did not do that either...