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...cult classic. The first single is “Wonderboy,” an epic battle-song of the title character and his nemesis, Nasty Man, who join forces at the end to become (surprise!) Tenacious D. The song appeals to the listener not only because of its comic narrative, but also for the fact that it stands alone as a conventional rock song...
...funny as the characters think they are, the result remains unfunny for the audience. Two characters related to the company, the greedy right-hand man and the corrupt politician, are recognizable stereotypes, but it seems the writing for them never made it to the next level, missing additional comic opportunity...
...opener asks the question, “What is Urinetown?” The answer is the most entertaining show in New York, a diversion with more comic thrills than its bigger budget, star-studded rivals. Amidst glossy productions where polish sometimes obscures soul, it has an unmistakably off-Broadway spirit. It’s almost too visceral, too vibrant for a Broadway stage. And yet, there it is—filling its stage and its audience...
Comedy by and for physics students? Yes, the comic fare of the show often betrayed the major hallmark of true physics humor: the use of obscure references in jokes that are only funny to those with personalities such that they would consider spending hundreds of hours learning about such obscurities. But a few pieces of truly context-free comic brilliance managed to shine through. The first was a running comparison of professors’ ratings on HotOrNot.com, and another was a rip-off of Saturday Night Lives’s “Celebrity Jeopardy” with well-known...
DIED. KEN KESEY, 66, author and '60s counterculture superhero; following cancer surgery; in Eugene, Ore. Kesey was a rebel pundit and a comic scribe, a longtime advocate of hallucinogens and a lifelong champion of individualism. In 1962 he published his acclaimed first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which later became an Oscar-winning film. In 1964 he traveled cross-country in a psychedelic bus with a group of hippie pals called the Merry Pranksters. The trip, immortalized by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, helped establish the antiestablishment in the public imagination. "I like...