Word: comicalities
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...about it—he, “I slept with someone who slept with Lyle Lovett” and she, “I slept with someone who handled Kurt Cobain’s intervention.” Besides lacking rhythm or aesthetic sensibility, the lyrics have no comic timing. Before the song even reaches its bridge, the jokes have been killed deader than the ballad’s titular grunge rock star...
...campaign trail, Williams has some help from manager Jack Menken (Christopher Walken) and joke-turned-speech writer Eddie Langston (acerbic standup comic Lewis Black), who, despite their pitch-perfect performances largely sing backup to their leading...
...unlike his other comic outings, in “Man of the Year,” Williams doesn’t come across as a prima donna. He’s surprisingly restrained, coolly cracking jokes with finesse...
...these things,” he said, emphasizing the lack of classical music in other stores. In a plea to his competitors, Valentine added, “we can only hope that, now that we are gone, they can take over.” Taking notice, nearby Newbury Comics, which began more than a quarter-century ago as a comic specialty store but has since expanded to music, is revamping its CD inventory. “We’ve been beefing up the classical sections in store and increasing the density of our music selection so that...
...Trouble With Normal (ABC, 8:30 p.m.) Sometimes you have to give the makers of a series credit for bringing through the development process an idea so ridiculous you'd think it was an "SNL" parody. Starring Jon Cryer - a good enough comic actor but the kiss of death to the short-lived series he's appeared in - this laff-a-century sitcom follows the zany adventures of a therapy group of paranoids. It'll likely be canceled by, oh, about 8:53 tonight, but the producers were able to waste large amounts of the Disney corporation's money...