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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...earlier days and inadvertently sets off the theater's sprinkler system, dousing everything, including Welles, who is madder than a wet cat. It perfectly catches the mood of the theater as seductress: one minute, she wants you, she makes you feel blessed, another, she reminds you what a buffoon you are to believe you belong here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Me and Orson Welles: Zac Efron Takes the Stage | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

...staring at a different calendar entirely, labeled Il Duce. “This has to be a joke,” I thought to myself. But as I wearily flipped through it, I saw pictures that portrayed a strong Italian leader. The Benito Mussolini of this calendar was no buffoon...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman | Title: In Search of Italy’s Glory Days | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

...McMahon also existed to reflect glory on the host and the guests, to be the buffoon and the butt of jokes when necessary. (They call the job second banana, after all, with all the pratfalls that the risible fruit implies.) Through it all, he kept a bluff good humor, something that must have taken considerable effort to seem as effortless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ed McMahon | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...Regularly lampooned by the country's most popular syndicated cartoon strip, Da Zuma Code, which depicts him as a ruthless buffoon. In 2007, he filed more than a dozen lawsuits against various media outlets and figures, including cartoonist Jonathan "Zapiro" Shapiro, who once depicted Zuma preparing to rape the justice system in the form of a blindfolded woman pinned down by his political allies in the ANC, the Communist Party and the ANC Youth League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profile: Jacob Zuma, South Africa's New President | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...year laugh riot! But after eight years of State of the Union addresses where nuclear was pronounced as an arbitrary sequence of three syllables, we have become accustomed to seeing the presidential office as part-king, part-jester. The idea of the United States President as a somewhat lovable buffoon remains firmly ensconced in the public mind, both at home and abroad...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: No, We Can’t (Laugh)! | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

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