The Playboy Panel: Hip Comics And The New Humor

March, 1961

PanelistsSteve AllenLenny BruceBill DanaJules FeifferMike NicholsMort SahlJonathan WintersPlayboy: There is a new kind of humor around today – and a new kind of comic – known variously as "hip" or "sick" or simply "new," and everyone seems to be talking about them. For our second Playboy Panel, we have with us several of the major exponents of this new school of cultivated funnymen, plus Steve Allen, who has done perhaps more than any other man to present this humor...

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