. . "We watch Fred Newman (the puckish sound-effects guy) and the other actors as though we were kids peering through a knothole in a ballpark fence ??? even though everything the performers are doing is intended for the ear, rather than the eye.One line Garrison speaks in a dramatic sketch sticks with me. ???Do you think God is a humorist???? asks one of the actors ??? after recounting a whole list of" . .