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19Rev.1-11-80 "Comedy is at. Tolson writes. '"What else ire jokes Mohr about? They're about fat people, s to Parsons ya good- .Thoug he says stingy people, dumbbells,small Belmont Winston.$4.95 hotel rooms, drunks,sexual prob- lems, high prices, war.. Callahan e 1 tragedy descend- "There may not be laughter DeLoach By MIKE NEWBERRY upon him,it began then, un- in hell, but there couldn't possi- cognized, in his turbulent youth, Malone bly be laughter in heaven,"Steve Allen says. McGuire Like. Charlie Chaplin before Rosen- Skeesiz fa comic you know. Nuclear Committe and who sin like Jonathan Swift before him, him, like Mark Twain before him, Tamm cerely combats the chyses of ms like Boccaccio before hm, all of Trotter ayne Mead- W.C.Sullivan she comments that he is really cy, saying: I am a do-gooder the satirist, unlike the clown, Tele. Room Ingram writer of earthy prose and poetry. a deep thinker, a comedian, a He is.a man born of the boy his the lineage seems too grandiose Gandy pianist, a composer, a crusader, autobiography belittles. Christianity and Commun'sm he would be the first to protest for a Steve Allen and I imag.ne a motion picture star, and a ten- b7C however. He is as well a relig.ous must often in this book. Sometimes in just opposition, believer. is a true one.For he is a true man, a philosonher, a serious ci- tizen, and a decent human being. in opposition, though not super- manity. Though he calls his be- And so this is thc autobiogra ficially so. Mr. Allen throughout lief Christinnity.his philosophy phy of at least a dozen men. It his book seeks to find the true is that of a seeker. It this s so is as thoughtful and thought- value of each. It is a tortuous then the name-tag is unimpor. a one man symposum to be. search and one which gives him tant. From this you might get the impression that I am a Steve Allen fan. I cannot tell a ie. I There are some who will say he the Soviet poet Tvarlovsky wise- am. However, having read the half- biograph.es with their ersatz dy schmalz, ghost written and ghost than petty self-satisfaction it is Steve Allen muy yet, if he has hysteria, ifI were not a fan of conrage defies the Imitations of great satirists. Who can pred'ct? Mr. Allen's his book would make me one. For Mr. Allen is an hon- to "the great ideas" of mankind. Schooled in the kleiglight- est man. In television, as we have learn- ism.let me just say, that though ed to see through the picture Mr. Allen defiantly says he is a tobe into the real world. He is even rarer is an honest man who writes well.. Of"a rather warlike tr.be" of volumes of Marx. Had he done Tho Washington Post so,he would not attrsbute to Times Herald tells it, Stere Allen's youth was communsts the ideas o anti The Washington Dally Now kin to Studs Lonegan's. Communists, as he does. Let the reader not think how- His mother a one-night stand ever that this is a solemn or self- ork Herald Trlbun comedienne. Hs boyhood went righteousbook. New York Journal-America from boarding school to worse, Here ore hilarious tales and New York Mirror inside insights of Ty inan.ties sonality has not outgrown), run- D-Z/87&F-007! uanans ur uas sysuep York Daily News fan.Many is the time I found New York Post home?).and all the restwith mysel laughing aloud as I read, NOT RETORDED in for good measure. something I seldom do. 184 SEP 21 1000 The Worker Years later when he became a But thcn too I found tho hu The New Lecde mor had a thoughtful tone. What is comedy.I began to ask my- Wall Str orda than I played" and a wrest- Jouma Jing commentator, his boyish ir- self? Date Comedy is not humorous,Steve Allen ys. Knowing comedy as bringigg brightened his brose. L... he does he says it is not humor- by l'. ous at all. It is cruel, it is in- Per 7 62 SEP 22 1960 ALt nFORMATION ASWTADNED