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...Yeah, Triumph is a Borscht Belt comic, but he talks like he's from eastern Europe. Very tangled web. When I was 10 years old, that's the voice I gave to dogs. I think because my grandparents talked in that accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'I Was the Class Comedy Bully' | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

...When you did Triumph the Insult Comic Dog for the first time, did you have any idea that it would actually work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'I Was the Class Comedy Bully' | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

...funny. Very funny, especially when he's got cotton in your mouth. He comes up with these non-sequiturs. Always makes me laugh. Anyway, at some point I entered a stand-up comedy contest and was one of the winners, and I did a comic at NYU. That started to make me think, "Wait a minute, maybe it's worth a try..." So I went to Chicago and joined a comedy group there. Took improv classes. Was found by Franken and Davis and hired by SNL in 1985. Did that show 'til 93. Then I did "Conan," which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'I Was the Class Comedy Bully' | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

...fight in the Battle of Britain and discover that it is in fact vicious and awful and miserable." Affleck's character is thought dead by his paramour, who begins an affair with his best friend. "When I come back and I am in fact alive, there are some difficulties." Comic difficulties? "Not comic difficulties. No zany high jinks of hilarity. Mr. Roper does not appear in Pearl Harbor." Wait until the test audiences have their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 20, 2000 | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...most solid performance of the show comes from Ben Margo '04 in a turn as Petruchio, perhaps Shakespeares least likable comic character. Margo's relentless, efficient, emotionless portrait of the man who must break Kate's independent spirit focuses more upon the social necessity of curbing the Shrew's temperament and less upon the subsequent sexual conquest of her unwilling body. While this occasionally stands in contrast with the other themes brought out in the production, it is also one of its most successful elements...

Author: By Matthew Hudson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: William Shakespeare's Other Comedy | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

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