Word: dangerfields
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these people think they're funny? This is no joking matter. If they wanted to tell jokes, they should have hooked up with Rodney Dangerfield and put on a show at the Park Street T-station. Jokes belong in the Johnny Carson show, the Yale Daily News, or the Democratic Party platform. They don't belong on the cover of national news magazines. So there...
Gags, puns and impersonations of celebrities from Vivien Leigh to Rodney Dangerfield abound throughout the show, occasionally detracting from the seriousness of the parables when they get out of hand. As Jesus tells his disciples that if a man takes their shirts, they should give him their coats, one character chimes in with. "Give 'em your tired, give 'em your poor," while another is shushed by his friend when he adds, "Give 'em hell." One particularly moving exchange is Christ's response to a character's complaint that she is an only child, "So am I," he says...
...discussions of a subject closer to home: the Core Curriculum, Dean Henry Rosovsky's pet project and the first extensive reform of Harvard's undergraduate program in a generation. After the Core won Faculty approval on May 2, 1978, by a vote of 182-65, Class Day Speaker Rodney Dangerfield declared, "Believe me, the Core Curriculum is nothing compared to my mother-in-law." But most of the verbal theatrics came from Faculty members, who went through three long sessions and numerous proposed amendments before agreeing on the Core as we know it today...
Weinstein recently put his stand-up act on display at an anti-draft rally near Memorial Hall. In between speeches and music, he came on and delivered a well-received series of one-liners in the Rodney Dangerfield mold. A brief sampling "Nancy Reagan, she's really a fine woman, bi: her idea of the Third World is J. C. Penney's. The post office is having problems with the Ronald Reagan stamp they just issued: people keep spitting on the wrong side." Most observers agree that Weinstein's delivery is very professional. "Anders steals more jokes than Milton Berle...
...respect. They took the shirt right off my back," says Comedian Rodney Dangerfield, 60, head bobbing nervously, eyes bulging like a pair of hard-boiled eggs in a bowl of oatmeal, and his left hand grabbing at the spot where his tie once hung. It's tough, as Rodney will tell you, it's tough. What's a guy to do when the Smithsonian asks for a donation of his trademark white shirt and red tie for its permanent collection in Washington, D.C.? "I was a little hesitant at first," says Dangerfield. "I only have two ties...