Allen, W.

Japanese: アレン,W. - あれん
Allen, W.

...In any case, comedians from vaudeville and radio were more at their best on live television than in movies (for example, Kaye in "The Danny Kaye Show" looked more talented than any of his movies). Woody Allen, who started out as Bob Hope's comedian, gained popularity in nightclubs and as a "stand-up comic" on television, and made his way into movies in the late 60s and 70s. As a bald, small man, he is jealous of the fact that he is Jewish, and his masochistic jokes, which he himself writes and performs, involve sex, and his comedy has a neurotic childishness and a sophisticated urbanity. ...

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…いずれにしても,ボードビルやラジオ出身のコメディアンは,映画よりも,生のテレビに本領を見せた(例えば《ダニー・ケイ・ショー》のケイは,どの映画の彼よりも芸達者に見えた)。ボブ・ホープのギャグマンから身を立てたウッディ・アレンは,ナイトクラブやテレビの〈スタンダップ・コミック〉で人気を博し,60年代末から70年代にかけて映画へ進出した。はげの小男で,しかもユダヤ人であることをねたにする,マゾヒスティックなジョークに,セックスをからませた自作自演の笑いには,神経症的な幼児性と洗練された都会性がある。…

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