Word: comical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what they at first seem to be. Mel's social worker is terminally randy; his real mother and father are major drug traffickers; a pair of stern federal agents are revealed to be gently gay. Russell observes these and other folkways with an understated objectivity that renders his comic subversions all the more deadly...
...Seinfeld (NBC) The granddaddy of modern urban sitcoms is still hipper, still wittier than its offspring. Now in its eighth season, the show has maintained its brilliant comic rhythms and dark undertones, and this season boasts some of the most original episodes ever. Kramer's stash of Japanese businessmen--need we say more...
...scientists provide plenty of comic relief. In addition to Anna and Kriebel, the group includes Emil Machal (Nathan Edwards '97) a surveyor who counts the stripes on Huml's wall and uses a number of strange contraptions to perform his duty. The project manager is Mr. Beck (Ian Simmons '98), who does little else but nervously march across the stage and exclaim "tomorrow I'm going fishing and that's that!" These non-sequiturs provide a nervous, inexplicable humor, but they seem to suggest more serious issues which elude this production...
Drew knows he has an addictive personality. "Even as a kid, I was the one who had to have every baseball card, every comic book," he says. And while he thinks about quitting every day, he doesn't believe he can just stop. So he converts his vice into a twisted virtue. Bolstered by a smattering of existentialism, Beat poetry and rock 'n' roll, Drew and plenty of teenagers like him justify what they do as a glorification of immediate pleasure over conventional restraint, a familiar theme from the '60s. For Drew, smoking copious quantities of pot confers membership...
DIED. MICHAEL BENTINE, 74, comic actor; of cancer; in London. Bentine, along with Peter Sellers, was an original member of the bbc's irreverent The Goon Show, which influenced a generation of British performers...