Clifford Odets - Untitled (Adam and Eve) (c.1947)
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Any idiot can face a crisis. It is this day-to-day living that wears you out. ~ Clifford Odets in β€˜The Country Girl’

I guess it resonated with the current times.

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Scenes from Clifford Odets

I need to find a scene with two males (one of which should be ages 16-25) from Clifford Odets or other great American playwrights from the earlier 20th century. I’ve read a couple of plays but couldn’t find anything interesting. It’s for a class and I’d like to do a character a bit like Stanley in β€œA Streetcar Named Desire” , does anyone have any recommendations?

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Read the Sweet Smell of Success (1957) script, written by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman. scriptslug.com/script/swe…
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LAST 3 SHOWS: Fresno City College Theatre Presents American Classic WAITING FOR LEFTY, by Clifford Odets, about a 1930s cab drivers' strike.

There is one show tonight (10/7) at 7:30 and two shows tomorrow (10/8) at 2:00 & 7:30. Tickets are $14 for general; $12 for students, seniors, and FCC staff. $8 each for groups 10+.

Come support local college theatre in Fresno.

Fresno Bee's theatre critic Donald Munro's review: http://www.fresnobee.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/fresno-beehive/article106758202.html

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Born today : July 18th - Clifford Odets, Screenwriter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cli…
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"In tone akin to Saroyan, with a soupcon of Gide, and a hearty nod to Clifford Odesse..." - but is Clifford Odesse real?

Gide and Saroyan both existed - but can't find any reference to the last one unless it's spelled differently?

Edit - Thanks to the comment below. It's Clifford Odets. (I thought the name sounded familiar and I tried various spellings of it in Google with no luck.) However, it is spelled incorrectly in some version of the script, including the main one on kacl780. (http://www.kacl780.net/frasier/transcripts/season_3/episode_14/the_show_where_diane_comes_back.html) (I wonder why?) And that quote is all over the internet, with the same incorrect spelling of Odesse appearing in several places.

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SERIOUS: This subreddit needs to understand what a "dad joke" really means.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

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Blind Girl Here. Give Me Your Best Blind Jokes!

Do your worst!

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This subreddit is 10 years old now.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

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Dropped my best ever dad joke & no one was around to hear it

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies πŸ˜‚

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What starts with a W and ends with a T

It really does, I swear!

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Why did Karen press Ctrl+Shift+Delete?

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

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What is a a bisexual person doing when they’re not dating anybody?

They’re on standbi

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Geddit? No? Only me?
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I wanna hear your best airplane puns.

Pilot on me!!

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E or ß?
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Clash by Night (1952)

TSPDT 2104, highest ranking 1425 in 2017; Director: Fritz Lang; Writer: Alfred Hayes, Clifford Odets (Play); Watched August 17th on the Criterion Channel IMDB

105 minutes. I'm going to struggle to write much on this film, as I struggled to get through it.

Barbara Stanwyck plays Mae, a determined and independent-minded woman who comes back home penniless after being widowed by a politician out East. She decides to try and settle down and be a dutiful housewife, but the local smooth-talking bad boy convinces her to give him a try and she temporarily bites. Passions flare up, and Mae has a hard choice to make as she now has a baby to consider but is torn between her heart and her mind.

It was fine, and I think the casting was perfect as they reimagined this from the stage to the screen. It felt like a play to me, and not in a great way. The dialog was preachy and not overly clever, and people spoke as if they were in a classic tragedy. I am glad the medium of film has generally moved on from needing to be an authority on morality.

I grew up wanting to be a theater actor, and this is the type of play I would have never tried out for. Melodramatic, hyperbolic prose and people talking unlike anyone actually does. When Shakespeare does it he is at least clever and excels at wordplay. The experience of watching this for me reminded me of when I used to get in trouble and the person scolding would take the insufferable approach of correcting through a lecture.

This approach of lecturing over telling succinctly is why I typically struggle with many Hollywood films from the 50s. It's an era I rarely choose, and this film reminded me of why. Good character performances but overall boring dialog and dark characters outside of sweet Jerry. I am glad to have seen it so I can check it off my list of Lang films to see, but this one did not land.

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What is the scariest tree?

BamBOO!

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What did Spartacus say when the lion ate his wife?

Nothing, he was gladiator.

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Pun intended.
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No spoilers
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Covid problems
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These aren't dad jokes...

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

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I had a vasectomy because I didn’t want any kids.

When I got home, they were still there.

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What did 0 say to 8 ?

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

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I dislike karma whores who make posts that imply it's their cake day, simply for upvotes.

I won't be doing that today!

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The Ancient Romans II
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I'd like to dedicate this joke to my wisdom teeth.

[Removed]

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Where do you find a cow with no legs?

Where ever you left it πŸ€·β€β™€οΈπŸ€­

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I did it, I finally did it. After 4 years and 92 days I went from being a father, to a dad.

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

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It this sub dead?

There hasn't been a post all year!

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How do you stop Canadian bacon from curling in your frying pan?

You take away their little brooms

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Remember that joke I told you about the chiropractor?

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All dad jokes are bad and here’s why

Why

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My name is ABCDEFGHIJKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

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viewtoathrill: #148 Clash by Night (1952)

2021: #148

Total reviewed for this sub: #363

TSPDT 2104, highest ranking 1425 in 2017; Director: Fritz Lang; Writer: Alfred Hayes, Clifford Odets (Play); Watched August 17th on the Criterion Channel IMDB

105 minutes. I'm going to struggle to write much on this film, as I struggled to get through it.

Barbara Stanwyck plays Mae, a determined and independent-minded woman who comes back home penniless after being widowed by a politician out East. She decides to try and settle down and be a dutiful housewife, but the local smooth-talking bad boy convinces her to give him a try and she temporarily bites. Passions flare up, and Mae has a hard choice to make as she now has a baby to consider but is torn between her heart and her mind.

It was fine, and I think the casting was perfect as they reimagined this from the stage to the screen. It felt like a play to me, and not in a great way. The dialog was preachy and not overly clever, and people spoke as if they were in a classic tragedy. I am glad the medium of film has generally moved on from needing to be an authority on morality.

I grew up wanting to be a theater actor, and this is the type of play I would have never tried out for. Melodramatic, hyperbolic prose and people talking unlike anyone actually does. When Shakespeare does it he is at least clever and excels at wordplay. The experience of watching this for me reminded me of when I used to get in trouble and the person scolding would take the insufferable approach of correcting through a lecture.

This approach of lecturing over telling succinctly is why I typically struggle with many Hollywood films from the 50s. It's an era I rarely choose, and this film reminded me of why. Good character performances but overall boring dialog and dark characters outside of sweet Jerry. I am glad to have seen it so I can check it off my list of Lang films to see, but this one did not land.

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