Word: comicality
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...while jokes may weaken with repetition, the leaders of the Harvard Stand Up Comic Society—a group formed just this year—said they hope the response will only get better after the group’s first ticketed event held Friday...
...manners! I'm a comic, and my job is to be funny. I'm political--I am that. I made a misstep once about Bob Dole and then wrote him a letter and apologized...
...what would we really be destroying? There is no other word in our culture that incites, infuriates, confounds and informs as does the word nigger. Who uses it, how it's used, which washed-up actor turned comic (think Michael Richards) shoulda stayed the hell clear of the word--they all help mark the ascension of black America through the cultural landscape. In art and letters and theater and comedy, this one word, this mangle of Latin and French and Spanish, has been description and slur and salutation, and in each incarnation a curio of our society...
...Silver Streak, Pryor and Gene Wilder's comedic take on The Defiant Ones. In the penultimate moment, Pryor's character, camouflaged as a lowly train porter, flips a gat on the uppity white villain, demanding to know, in a brilliant combination of anger and comic timing, "Who you callin' nigger?" Yeah. That was all of us. That was all of black America wanting to know from any race baiter as we moved through the Establishment: Excuse me, who exactly are you calling nigger...
...DIED. Dave Cockrum, 63, illustrator whose characters such as the weather-manipulating Storm (pictured above), created with writer Len Wein, revitalized the comic book X-Men in the '70s and helped build the title into a lucrative colossus, spawning action figures, video games and a film franchise; in Belton, South Carolina...