Review of
More “Who’s In Charge Here?”
by Gerald Gardner
Three out of five stars
Public figures with inserted gag lines
This book takes
photos of public figures and inserts gag dialog balloons. While a few of them
are admittedly funny, others are very lame, even for the early sixties. There
is a famous photo of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and John Kennedy, and the
dialog balloon emanates from Khrushchev, and he is saying, “Same to you fella.”
There is another with Richard Nixon and a black man with a dual dialog balloon
where they are saying, “Swa-nee, how I love ya-“
This book was
no doubt considered funny when it was published, but the humor simply has not
aged well. In most cases it is also necessary for the reader to recognize the
primary personalities in the images. Without that, there is little opportunity
for the image plus caption to be considered funny.
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