Word: cutup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, he's a cutup on the cutting edge, all Boston brashness and Irish-Catholic anger. In performance, he stalks the stage, spewing cigarette smoke and obscenities, ranting out comedy. He zeroes in on pretension, savaging vegetarians, nonsmokers and rock stars ("Don Henley's gonna tell me how to vote? I don't think so"). On cigarettes: "Smoking takes 10 years off your life. Well, it's the 10 worst years, isn't it, folks? It's the ones at the end!" On animal conservation: "How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean...
Ernie had it all figured out. The cheeky Sesame Street cutup was out angling, but there were no tugs on the little Muppet's line. So he began to bellow, "Heeere, fishy, fishy, fishy," and sure enough, big plump ones began zooming into his rowboat with a satisfying aerodynamic whistle...
...LIFE (Fox, Sundays, 8:30 p.m. EDT). Chris Elliott, former Late Night with David Letterman cutup, plays a nerdy 30-year-old still living with his parents. Elliott's manic gooniness is an acquired taste, but this so-dumb- it's-funny sitcom could be his breakthrough to mainstream success...