Word: comical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story follows several similar episodes of stories pushed into the traditional media after being spread on the Internet--for example, the notion that TWA Flight 800 was shot down by the U.S. Navy--where the stories were nutty and baseless. The Clintern saga certainly is not baseless, although the comic seediness of it, in contrast to the high tragedy of 1963, can be seen as a telling comment on the new medium. After all, the Internet beat TV and print to this story, and ultimately forced it on them, for one simple reason: lower standards...
...Comic Chris Farley was no suffering fool, as your headline said [NATION, Dec. 29-Jan. 5]. He was a man who made me and thousands of others laugh at his high jinks. You quoted Saturday Night Live cast member Rob Schneider as saying that Farley "didn't love himself." I disagree. Although I did not know Farley personally, I believe the joy he brought to others is love itself. We all have good angels and bad angels. The bad angels took Farley flying off to heaven laughing. WALTER BUITRAGO Hollywood...
...died like a Kennedy, on skis, against a tree. And if that's funny, it is something he'd appreciate. He knew all about the power of laughter. (His lone solo hit was called Laugh at Me.) And with celebrity funerals turning into serious newsfare, Bono provided existential comic relief. For, despite being opera buffa, his life was as grand and as quintessentially American as those of the Massachusetts dynasts--but more exuberantly, more accessibly so. It was not carved like granite; it was curved like a smile. As his friend Tony Orlando the singer said last week, "They...
...exactly the kind of stuff a Long Island high school kid from the '60s might buy if he grew up to be a multimillionaire--car models, superhero models, Mets memorabilia, a mint-condition Schwinn Sting-Ray--Seinfeld comes across as a relatively contented man, perhaps the first self-actualized comic in history...
Unlike most contemporary comedians whose entire careers are pointed toward the San Fernando Valley's sound stages, Seinfeld says he relishes returning to life on the road as a stand-up comic, which he claims as his true vocation, the "noblest endeavor." He plans to tour Europe and Australia this summer and then spend a week on Broadway filming an HBO special titled I'm Telling You for the Last Time; it will mark the last time he performs his current act. It's a kind of self-imposed trick, he says, to force him to write and perform...