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While impressive geopolitical strategies and witty banter are rare commodities these days, here's some graduation advice I would actually find refreshing...

Author: By Daniel Choi, | Title: What Not To Say at Commencement | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...divorce! Entering Lloyd and Caroline's world of domestic dysfunction, Gus keeps the couple hostage in their own home by tying them up with bungee cords. Despite their confines they still manage to get under each other's skin. Gus becomes so annoyed with their abrasive banter that, a dead-ringer for Eddie Murphy, he claps his hands over his ears and sings "la la la la la !" Audience erupts in laughter.["I thought I was gonna die when he put his hands over his ears...

Author: By Mimi N. Schultz, | Title: You're Gonna Die!!! | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...Official Comedy Wrap-Up of the '94 Games. Ratings for his second Olympic week soared to 8.9 (compared with an average 5.8), the show's highest ever. What clinched it for Middle America was Dave's mom, who was sent to Lillehammer to report on the Games and banter on the air with her son. What a guy: he not only has higher ratings, makes more money and provides more laughs than anybody else in late-night TV -- he's nice to his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: In the Kingdom of Letterman | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...both Harvard student and a reader of The Crimson, I feel intellectually insulted that he could waste entire pages of the editorial section with this kind of banter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lat's Article Was 'Insulting' | 3/11/1994 | See Source »

Seinfeld and David are old friends from stand-up-comedy days, and their lunchtime banter has a comfortable, genuinely amused air. After a woman who once worked with David stops by to say hello, Seinfeld comments, "He has more friends, older friends, than anybody I know. It's like a museum of cars that are maintained for hundreds of years beyond their useful life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masters of Their Domain | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

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