Modern "comedy" (WAS Re: Now that I have seen Oklahoma!...)

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Noel=A0Katz) 
>A typical URINETOWN joke is "We can't give them too much exposition;
>this is, after all, a musical." I think I would have appreciated the
>show if I'd found any of it remotely funny. There's plenty of good humor
>in Carousel.....
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>And Hammerstein didn't have to stoop to this facile kind of humour......


How about, *nobody* in those days had to stoop to the sort of facile humour
that is mandatory today, especially in movies and TV. No revolting
bathroom/bodily function jokes or sound effects, no infantile double-entendres
or sexual sight gags, no filthy language, no crotch-kicking... 

Now, *there's* progress for you.