Word: comic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Framed Roger Rabbit, the inventive comic blend of animation and live action, drew six nominations, but all of them for technical achievements. Working Girl also collected six nods, including best original song for Carly Simon's Let the River...
...cherish for comfort and salvation. Author Salman Rushdie, 41, who was born in Bombay and educated at Cambridge, shows every sign of disproving Kipling's bromide about East, West and the twain never meeting. They have met, all right, in his experience and imagination, with results that are alternately comic, poignant and explosive...
When his late-night show debuted on NBC in 1982, David Letterman was a young stand-up comic known mainly for occasional stints as a Tonight show guest host. Now, as his own show prepares to celebrate its seventh anniversary, Letterman has established himself as the medium's most inventive * and influential comic. Like Saturday Night Live in the '70s, Late Night with David Letterman has defined the cutting edge of TV comedy in the '80s: hip, irreverent, self-parodying, both scornful of and fascinated by the cliches of show business. Sitting in his Rockefeller Center office recently after...
...young stand-up comic with a little Tonight show experience under his belt. Now, on the eve of the seventh anniversary of his own late- night show, Letterman is riding high as TV's most inventive and influential comic. Yet he still looks up to Johnny Carson, gets annoyed at guests who don't come prepared, and wonders why some people think he's mean...
Describing Robin Williams as a "comedian of superior talent and boundless energy," Dwyang noted that his comic talents have spanned several different media, including a television sitcom, a series of comedy albums, feature-length films, and live stand-up comedy routines...