 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1216 ページ
...pleased to call a "joke." AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914), US auihor. The Devil's Dictiorwry(t881-1906). 3 ty. It is the future refusing to be born. ANEURIN BEVAN (1897-1960), British Labour DRICE (1891-1951). US cnlerlainer. Quoted in: Norman Katkov. The Fabulous Fanny, ch. 9 (1952). 4 I... | |
 | Shannon Eileen Hengen - 1998 - 312 ページ
...speakers in "The Waltz" and "A Telephone Call," all seem ensnared in Fanny Brice's dilemma of "being": Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to...clown, and they only want you to make them laugh. (Barreca 29-30) "Big Blonde" is not a "funny" story, but neither is it devoid of the type of gallows... | |
 | 2001 - 356 ページ
...onion can make you cry, but show me the vegetable that can make you laugh! o — Tallulah Bankkead Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to...clown, and they only want you to make them laugh. Brice He who laughs last didn't get it. — Helen Giangregorio There are so few Methodist comics, don't... | |
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Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make... 