Word: absurdist
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...repertory house, is providing a lavish reminder that the six did have productive careers beyond their 20s by presenting Pythonalot, a two-week retrospective of the canon films, plus Cleese's A Fish Called Wanda and Gilliam's always-worth-reseeing Jabberwocky, Time Bandits and Brazil. True to the absurdist spirit of Python, a disclaimer on the Film Forum webpage reads: "SPAM? IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF HORMEL FOODS CORP. PYTHON AND ALOT ADAPTED FROM MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT LOGO. USED WITH PERMISSION...
...writing, I think everyone’s just going to agree with me.”Durang might not intend to provoke, but his taboo subject matter (abortion, homosexuality, child abuse, and the Catholic Church just to name a few topics), coupled with his characteristically absurdist style, rarely fails to spark interest.A SERIOUS SATIRISTDurang was raised in a Catholic home in New Jersey and attended Catholic school before arriving at Harvard in 1967. He wrote his first play at age eight and a few more in high school, but it was in college that his trademark style first emerged.Starting with...
...comedian is the first of the Internet auteurs to cross into the mainstream. Lazy Sunday is similar to the hip-hop--drenched absurdist stuff he and his two friends since junior high school--Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer--had been posting for years on thelonelyisland.com They are the kind of guys who spend very little time debating whether an idea for a sketch--or anything--is worth pursuing. "That's been our attitude from the start, inspired by Akiva," says Samberg. "He's a can-do kind of dude. He says what separates people is that some people talk about...
...might think creators Vernon Chatman and John Lee, both 34, have it in for the shows like Sesame Street that they parody. Actually, Chatman says, "Sesame Street may be the best TV show ever." Big Bird and friends, they say, developed a rapid-fire, absurdist visual language that lends itself to conceptual comedy and even...
...Kelly points out, the Irish roots of “The Playboy” are clearer than in the plays of the nominally Irish, but Francophone, absurdist writer Samuel Beckett. And unlike the plays of Sean O’Casey, which are extremely rooted in Irish culture, “The Playboy” boasts a visceral appeal that will be accessible to Harvard students...