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<i> Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press</i>

From our “everyone’s a critic” file: On Wednesday, ABC’s Slap Maxwell took a shot at along-running NBC comedy in a discussion of things that were and weren’t funny. Mused the old Slapper (Dabney Coleman): “Laurel and Hardy were funny . . . Abbott and Costello were funny--sometimes . . . the first season of ‘Cheers’ was funny. . . .”

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