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Which guests remain on Emerson’s wish list? Lady Gaga, Elvis Costello, Sting, and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Before disappointment at Gaga’s absence takes hold, however, the following are possibilities for next year’s series of discussions: Lorne Michaels of “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock,” Craig Ferguson of “The Late Late Show,” and Gene Simmons of KISS have each been invited...
Where this book succeeds most is on the level of satire. Unlike in his previous books, Palahniuk does not show his readers a secret or paranormal world, but instead takes one especially familiar to most modern audiences and exaggerates its flaws to significant comic effect. For example in one scene, Katherine Kenton decides to adopt a child, and after an extended perusal of infants, she decides that none of them go with her newly painted walls. There is a similar kind of witty iciness throughout, which gives off the air of certain modern celebrities under the guise of a distant...
...website, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club describes William Shakespeare’s “Pericles”—written in part by the much less eloquent George Wilkins—as a “rarely produced tragi-comic-histori-vulgar monstrosity of the Shakespeare canon.” A late and obscure work, “Pericles” tells the story of the eponymous prince of Tyre. According to Meryl H. Federman ’11, producer and president of the Hyperion Shakespeare Company (HSC), Pericles “is the great guy that horrible...
Some of the show’s most humorous moments reside with the antics of Gus T. Hickey ’11 and Elliott J. Rosenbaum ’12, who play the two charming but philandering princes. As a duo, they are masters of comic timing and innuendo. Hickey also takes on the role of the Wolf, who pursues Little Red Riding Hood with a relish that echoes the hunt the princes engage in as they chase after Cinderella and Rapunzel...
...caught a break as a lesbian poodle trainer in Christopher Guest's 2000 mockumentary, Best in Show. ("She's as smart as anyone I think I've probably ever met," says Guest, who tailored the role to suit Lynch's talents.) Over the next decade, she delivered impeccably timed comic performances in a slew of roles, among them a porn star turned folksinger in A Mighty Wind (2003), an unctuous lawyer on Showtime's The L Word (2005), a guidance counselor with a past in Role Models (2008) and Julia Child's sister in a critically acclaimed turn opposite Meryl...