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Re:A NOID
« Reply #60 on: January 05, 2004, 10:58:46 AM »

Jed I’m thrilled with the wonderful happy ending for your lost friend.   :) :)
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« Reply #61 on: January 05, 2004, 10:59:10 AM »

Ah, a quick moment to post after lunch.

Thanks for all the welcome backs. Makes me feel good to be on-line again.

Had a difficult night of sleep also. First, they changed the locks on the front door of our building. They said it would happen sometime this morning (January 5th). For some reason, they did it late last night so at midnight our next door neighbor buzzed our flat repeatedly because he was locked out! He hadn't taken his new key with him because we all expected the change to happen this morning. At least the keys work! Then we went back to bed. One hour later, at 1am our crazy neighbor (most New York apartment buildings have at least one crazy neighbor, not crazy like Lucy, but certifiable crazy) slammed her apartment door (she's on 3 and we're on 4 and it's a walk-up). It sounded like a gun shot. Then she began shrieking and screaming for the police. Our first thought was that her also mentally unstable son (I'm trying to be nice here, I've used crazy too many times) had done something either to himself or to her. She screamed and screamed but by the time we picked up the phone the police and an ambulance had arrived. One of the other tenants had called 911. We still don't know what happened except that we saw out the window that V and F (they shall remain nameless) were led out of the building by the police and escorted into the ambulance. We finally got back to bed and sleep about 1:45am and I got up at 6 to go back to work!

That said, now responding to the QOTD, the first part of The Ruling Class with Peter O'Toole (when he thought he was Jesus) had me screaming with laughter. The second part when he turns into a Jack the Ripper kind of character gets spooky and dark and not funny but scary. I also remember peeing over Airplane. None of the Airplane sequels have hit me quite the way the first one did, I think because it was so unexpected. Other movies and plays have been mentioned already, such as Auntie Mame, Hairspray (the movie), which I saw in Paris. We were the only Americans in the theatre and we were rolling in the aisles. Some of the others were laughing and giggling but nothing like those two crazy Americans! Waiting for Guffman and What's Up Doc? also made me laugh.

My most recent theatrical laugh fest came from Avenue Q. I still have to go back to see it again because I laughed and missed so many jokes.

This is turning into a rather long post (I'm making up for the past month of errantness and truantness) and I must get back to work.

Don't know if I'll be at chat tonight. I'll try, but we are getting together with friends to share our stories of England so if I'm there it will be late.
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« Reply #62 on: January 05, 2004, 11:04:08 AM »

Forgot to mention this for you Stephen Schwartz fans. After you have listened to Donald's radio show, go over to BBC Radio Three Stage and Screen and listen to an interesting interview with Schwartz.

Here is the link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/stagescreen.shtml?focuswin

Enjoy!
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« Reply #63 on: January 05, 2004, 11:04:36 AM »

Ann mentioning Bill Cosby reminds me of an incident on a flight.  Passengers with their head sets on were laughing rather loudly.  The person next to me put his on saying Bill Cosby is doing a very funny routine.  I of course joined in along with almost the entire flight of passengers.  I never heard so much laughter on a plane.  Within the year the BILL COSBY SHOW, based on this hysterical routine, was a hit T.V. show.
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« Reply #64 on: January 05, 2004, 11:16:39 AM »

I must confess to another guilty pleasure (not that one, Ozzie):

The Big Bus Starring Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, Rene Auberjonois, Lynn Redgrave, Sally Kellerman, and Ruth Gordon.  Unfortunately, it is apparently an acquired taste, because a lot of my friends have watched it with me, but few find it quite as funny.

Okay, two more:

Harold and Maude
Wet Hot American Summer with Christopher Meloni (the only man I can think of that I would want to share a jail cell with)
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« Reply #65 on: January 05, 2004, 11:19:17 AM »

Without a doubt, I never laughed so hard as when I saw the original London production of NOISES OFF.  A brilliant production of MISALLIANCE at the Old Globe had me weeping with laughter.  Who'd have thunk it?  Shaw!  I agree with Bruce about COMEDY OF ERRORS, I have a couple of productions on tape...one British, the other with the Flying Karamozov Brothers.  Both Hysterical.  Years ago I saw a great production of THE PLAY'S THE THING at the Cincinnati Playhouse-in-the-Park which also had me rolling in the aisle.  The Cincy Playhouse also did an hilarious production of THE RIVALS.  This was in the days of Word Baker (director of the original FANTASTICKS) and he directed both plays.

I literally fell out of my seat laughing at BLAZING SADDLES the first time.  I was gone when they started singing I Get a Kick Out of You and didn't stop through the rest of the film.  ALL ABOUT MARY got me pretty damned giddy.  ONE, TWO, THREE.  THEODORA GOES WILD.  MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK. DUCK SOUP.  SOUTH PARK, THE MOVIE...

There are just too many...I laugh a lot.

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« Reply #66 on: January 05, 2004, 11:24:07 AM »

I also think how funny you find something depends on whom you are watching the movie/play with.. I've seen some things with friends that, because they were all in stitches, have been really entertaining, but I know if I were by myself I wouldn't have been laughing out loud.

I thought of two more: Margaret Cho's I'm The One That I Want and Notorious C.H.O.  I don't know if they count as proper films since they are of her live performances, but I nearly fell out of my seat laughing during both.
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« Reply #67 on: January 05, 2004, 11:24:35 AM »

THE RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST with Michael Redgrave and Dame May Whitty
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« Reply #68 on: January 05, 2004, 11:24:46 AM »

SOUTH PARK!!! DUH!!!  Thanks, Mr. DR Pogue for the reminder!
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« Reply #69 on: January 05, 2004, 11:28:35 AM »

Hmmm... Well, I've been up since noon... and it's almost 2:30EST... And I haven't done any real work yet... Rehearsal at 5:00... Hmmm...

Oh, but I did buy my plane tickets for my trip to Memphis in February for my annual stint at the Unified Professional Theatre Auditions.  Now, I just have to decide: Will it be Corky's for the BBQ or The Rendezvous for the ribs?  -Although I like Corky's ribs too.  Of course, a lunch at The Cupboard (a great ole "meat and three") is always in the question!  Those corn muffins and hush puppies they put on the table when you sit down... I've gone through one basket by myself!  Maybe, quite possibly, two at one time!
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« Reply #70 on: January 05, 2004, 11:29:04 AM »

OH, food... that would be a good thing...  Down to the kitchen..
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« Reply #71 on: January 05, 2004, 11:37:38 AM »

The Court Jester
What’s Up Doc
Odd Couple
Young Frankenstein
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
There's Something About Mary
The Mad Miss Manion
Bringing Up Baby
Walk Don’t Run
Ground Hog Day
Shall We Dance?  Thank goodness it had subtitles.  The audience was laughing so hard we would have missed some of the lines.

tc as soon as you mentioned Ruth Gordon I thought of HAROLD AND MAUDE.

Charles I forgot about Miricale of Morgan’s Creek

Ben I agree with your description of THE RULING CLASS


Noises Off
The Man Who Came to Dinner, the play, not the boring movie
Marcel Marceau.  Everyone in the theater could hear me laughing hysterically, which means I was hyperventilating and gasping for air.

I could do this all day and still not remember them all.

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« Reply #72 on: January 05, 2004, 11:41:50 AM »

Of course The Court Jester!  
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« Reply #73 on: January 05, 2004, 11:43:08 AM »


We always miss Miss Maya - and I'm glad you haven't run off with Craig.

Aww, thank you, BK!   :-[+ :D

I also forgot the South Park movie...few movies make me laugh harder.
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« Reply #74 on: January 05, 2004, 11:53:51 AM »

Welcome back to Ben and Ant.
When I was a kid I loved the Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis movies and as a young teenager the "Carry On" movies made me laugh too. Thnaks for the reminder about "Airplane". It was retitled "Flying High" in OZ and was delightfully silly. I think I also laughted at "The Naked Gun". "The Producers" film and stage were also "chuckle" shows and of course "What's Up Doc".
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« Reply #75 on: January 05, 2004, 11:56:59 AM »

DR Charles Pouge, you reminded me...the Marx Bros. movies, their early ones always crack me up!

And DR Jane, I must also agree with you choice of Shall We Dance! Funny, funny, movie

I remember going to see  it in the theater and my buddies weren't too crazy about seeing a Japanese movie with subtitles, but they all loved it!

I want to add WHAT'S UP DOC, but I haven't seen it since I was a kid, and I don't know if I would still laugh or not!
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« Reply #76 on: January 05, 2004, 11:59:35 AM »

For me, "Some Like it Hot" delivers the most laughs time and time again!

I adore "Love and Death" -- the scene with Allen, Keaton and the Spanish ambassador and Keaton and Allen bopping each other over the head with a bottle keeps me in hysterics!

"Sleeper" is a gem, too.

DR MattH:  Neither "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" nor "The Great Race" had me laughing very much.  The latter was a lot of fun, but the few laughs I got were for effects, such as the sparkle off one of Tony Curtis' teeth.  I thought Lemmon and Falk much too broad.  I guess I could have given you and your brother a reason to wallop someone else! :)

"What's Up, Doc" has some wonderfully funny moments.  It's one of my favorites, too.

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« Reply #77 on: January 05, 2004, 12:17:20 PM »

A reminder for those who may not be aware, today/tomorrow is the Twelfth Day Of Christmas. Yes the 12 days are this side of Christmas! Traditionally, decorations, cards and trees should be removed by this day.
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« Reply #78 on: January 05, 2004, 12:25:37 PM »

TomofOz, we are not looking for chuckles, we are looking for fall out of your seat guffawing howling screaming stomping laughter.
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« Reply #79 on: January 05, 2004, 12:29:33 PM »

Best I can do BK. I am not a "Fall about laughing" guy. But then I don't cry in movies either.
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« Reply #80 on: January 05, 2004, 12:36:19 PM »

I can't say I fell out of my seat, but I guffawed quite a bit watching "Tootsie" -- and it seems to improve with age.

I especially love the soap opera sequences when Hoffman's character Dorothy ad libs and has everyone trying to guess where she might be going with it!  A few sight gags are hysterical, too...hailing a taxi, pulling down a girdle, etc.
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« Reply #81 on: January 05, 2004, 12:37:44 PM »

And then there is Dame Edna!

"An Evening With Dame Edna" had me in tears.  My facial muscles were hurting in the first 15 minutes and it only got worse.  WONDERFUL experience that!
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« Reply #82 on: January 05, 2004, 12:47:33 PM »

DR Dan-in-Toronto was asking a day or so ago about Oz National Treasures. Dame Edna is there and has been for a few decades. Heights never reached by Dame Joan. It is probably a good thing that North America has not been introduced to Sir Les Patterson - Dame Edna would refuse to share the same stage (at the same time). Most Australian performances of Mr Humphries would have both characters. (likewise the UK). I don't think I have ever seen a Star "work" her audience as well as Dame Edna.
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« Reply #83 on: January 05, 2004, 12:48:40 PM »

URBAN COWBOY, however, was not laughable...it was just heinous and painful to watch

How could JRB trying to take himself seriously in full country-chic garb NOT make you laugh?!?

Maybe when everyone's favorite meanie composer dresses up like Betty Boop will DR Jason finally break a smile... ;)
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« Reply #84 on: January 05, 2004, 12:53:15 PM »

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It is snowing here again and I fear we will all be trapped at work...trapped like rats on the 5th floor of the Justice buidling with snow piling up outside. I'm thinking this would have been a nice day to stay home curled up on the counch watching movies!  ;)

I remember being trapped by a great blizzard in Howard Johnson's Motel in Newport RI. While the storm was raging all about, I was curled up reading "The Shining" - talk about atmosphere. Forunately the Motel bar did not run out of booze, but four days of a HoJo's diet was not a gormands delight.

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« Reply #85 on: January 05, 2004, 12:54:44 PM »

Hey everyone. Sorry it's taken me so long to go through all the posts.

I had a really intense dream last night (about the guy) and woke up really upset.

Glad DR Ben is back.

Hope Swishy's mom is doing okay.

Glad about DR Jed's friend.

And I hope DR Jason feels better.
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« Reply #86 on: January 05, 2004, 12:57:44 PM »

MOVIES-  Operation Mad Ball
               
                Who's Minding The Mint?


THEATRE- King of Hearts by Jean Kerr
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« Reply #87 on: January 05, 2004, 12:58:26 PM »

And Yes-


THE COURT JESTER
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« Reply #88 on: January 05, 2004, 12:58:44 PM »

DR Jose: I love ribs! They are my favorite.
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« Reply #89 on: January 05, 2004, 12:59:54 PM »

Okay, if we are allowing certain scenes from films, let me add Soapdish, if only for the scenes at the dinner theater.  Of course, Keving Kline can almost always make me smile (with the possible exception of that God-awful film he made here in Tacoma with Tracy Uhlman and River Phoenix).

So, Tomovoz, is that where we get the term Twelfth Night?
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