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Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Theatreboy33
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/03
#25re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/17/06 at 11:21amAnd how could i forget, Charles Ludlam!
seymour krelborn
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/03
#26re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/17/06 at 11:22amDurang, Simon and Nicky Silver are some of my favorites.
Tricky Joe
Chorus Member Joined: 9/30/05
#27re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/17/06 at 11:56am
Christopher Durang
and David Sedaris
Updated On: 8/17/06 at 11:56 AM
Flash-In-The-Pan
Chorus Member Joined: 3/5/06
#29re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/17/06 at 12:18pmI do find Durang hilarious - lately I've found Alan Aykbourn's works to be of a very humorous quality, lol. "Role Play" is quite funny.
#30re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/17/06 at 2:56pmNeil Simon
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Someday
Featured Actor Joined: 4/4/06
#31re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/17/06 at 4:06pm
For my money, Larry Shue's The Foreigner is the tops in the modern era. I did not see the recent Broderick revival but would not be surprised to hear that it was weak. Broderick seems totally wrong for the lead role. But the show's script really packs in the laughs, using various kinds of humor effectively. I'd love to see a great professional production of it.
Shue's The Nerd can be humorous in places but is not on the same level. How I wish Larry Shue had not died in that plane crash. He might have had a Neil Simon-like career.
WalkOn
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/06
#32re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/17/06 at 7:51pm
Kaufman and Hart
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.
Updated On: 8/17/06 at 07:51 PM
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#33re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/17/06 at 11:17pm
David Lindsay Abaire- I loved Fuddy Meers.
Neil Simon-
Sam Shepard(Just kidding)
But the funniest show I have ever seen was written by:
BRUCE VILANCH.
The show at Westbeth was the funniest show I have ever seen.
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom was a close second- I adore Charles Busch.
Updated On: 8/17/06 at 11:17 PM
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#34re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/17/06 at 11:20pmPre-"Allergist's Wife" Charles Busch.
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Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#35re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/17/06 at 11:24pm
What about Vilanch, Namokins?
His tee shirt collection alone cracks me up.
He just cracks me up. He just has to show up and he cracks me up.
I love his brain.
I want Bruce Vilanch, Charles Busch and Gerard Alessandrini to write a musical together.
Updated On: 8/17/06 at 11:24 PM
#36re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/17/06 at 11:26pmI love Nicky Silver.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
#37re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/17/06 at 11:27pmSteven Adly Guirgis does a wonderful job at combining powerful, moving stuff and hilarious comedy.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#38re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/17/06 at 11:33pm
I recall Nicky Silver's play "The Food Chain." First act was this hilarious satire about a poet and the poet's lover, a complete play with beginning, middle and perfect ending. The play should have stopped right there as a sensational one-act and been done with another one-act. The second act felt like a tack-on to make it full-length that wasn't as funny.
I think I also saw Raised in Captivity at the Vineyard but it didn't hit me as funny as that perfect first act of the other play.
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#39re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/17/06 at 11:50pm
Chris Durang
Larry Shue
Ken Ludwig
What the puck?!
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#40re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:04am
Did anyone here see Almost Famous by Bruce Vilanch?
The night I went I literally almost hurt myself from laughing so hard. I had never seen Bruce onstage before.
He is the funniest man alive.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#41re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:09am
Corine, were either of those Vilanch shows actually PLAYS? Or just stand up.
And you didn't just call Namo "Namokins", did you? That is hysterical!
PEACE.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#44re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/18/06 at 1:02am
I was just in "Earnest" this year. Wilde is very funny.
But my favorites?
Christopher Durang and Moliere
#45re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/18/06 at 1:10amHuge Durang fan here, but I also find Albee to be quite deliciously, wickedly hilarious.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#46re: Who's the Funniest Playwright?
Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:23amMoss Hart and George Kaufman are hilarious. I once played Mr. Kirby in a workshop production of You Can't Take It With You. When we did the first read through and we got to the sex-wall street bit, I cracked up. And The Man Who Came To Dinner is hilarious.
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