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...show is the brainchild of writers Gazali and Butet Kartaredjasa. The latter, in particular, is a well-known actor, comedian and vocal government critic, who had several works banned in the 1990s because they supposedly stirred up "social tension." But he is back in the mainstream now, playing the popular part of Si Butet Yogya, a character who shares the same initials and mannerisms as real life President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. As the coordinator of a master's program at the University of Indonesia in political communications, Gazali brings an academic knowledge to the program, but he leavens it with...
...Plan, was the first of a string of emotional, radio-friendly tunes, including Leader of the Band, written for his bandleader father, and Same Old Lang Syne, about a chance meeting with an old girlfriend. By the end of the decade, he was an icon for sensitive souls everywhere. (Comedian Denis Leary joked that his adolescent admiration for Fogelberg hindered his success with girls.) Fogelberg discovered he had prostate cancer in 2004, a year after releasing his last studio album, Full Circle...
...paranoid American stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims. Ahmed Ahmed, who is an Egyptian-American, likes to complain about how hard it is to pass through airport security because a well-known terrorist shares the same name. If dubious airline officials ask him to prove he's a comedian by telling a joke, Ahmed responds: "Um, I just graduated from flight school?" When that joke bombs (sorry!), he consoles himself with the thought of how frustrated the other Ahmed must get when people mistake him for a comedian. "I'm a terrorist, goddamit...
...plan would give prison time to the passenger who stands in the aisle fastidiously folding his blazer--"like he's in the color guard at Arlington National Cemetery," comedian Dennis Miller once put it--before placing it in an otherwise empty overhead, defying you to crush it with your carry...
...have convictions actually by the way. No, no, no. Sorry, I don't have any convictions in a court of law, apart from speeding when I was very young. But I have plenty of political convictions. Can you rescue me? God." Johnson is a natural comedian from his feet (often in his mouth) to the seemingly electrified tips of his abundant white-blond hair. The question that plagues his party leaders is whether this beguiling wit will propel him to political success or risible failure...