Picks and Pans Review: This Comedy Extravaganza, Taped in Montreal Four Months Ago, Features Performers from All Over the World, and Just About Every One of Them Has a Shining Moment or 10. Among the Standouts Are Rowan Atkinson, Who Pantomimes a Hysteric

By Alan Carter

UPDATED 11/06/1989 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 11/06/1989 at 01:00 AM EST

her song parody "Cause I'm a Blonde, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah"; white South African Pieter-Dirk Uys, wearing a FREE MANDELA T-shirt while subtly (and effectively) needling apartheid, and Jerry Seinfeld, doing a well-put-together stand-up bit hitting on U.S. Customs, lines at banks and why men don't like using checks.