Word: doltish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Enter Ali G, a tracksuit-wearing "hip-hop journalist" and the alter ego of British comic Sacha Baron Cohen. Da Ali G Show (HBO, Friday nights, 12:30 a.m. E.T.) is a little like This Is Spinal Tap, if the doltish rockers were asking the questions. In one of a series of artfully staged (but real) newsmaker interviews, Ali asks former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros BoutrosGhali: "Which is the funniest language? It's French, innit?" When he asks a panel of religious leaders, "Isn't God just an overhyped David Blaine?" you swear one of the panelists, a Dick Cheney...
...criticize Israel. In the eyes of many pro-Israel right-wingers, the mere suggestion that there are Jews out there who oppose Israeli policies is enough to evoke hysteria. One e-mailer kindly informed me that the only Jews who criticize the Israeli government are “doltish VES majors...
...other comedy that hits the big screens nowadays. Allen always manages to avoid carboard characters - even when they actually are one note jokes. Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite, Jennifer Tilly in Bullets Over Broadway, and now Elaine May as Frenchy's cousin in Small Time Crooks - the bumbling, doltish female in these films does little more than spout inane observations, but they manage to be endearing, sympathetic, _almost_ knowable. In this case, the comedy is more obvious, but all of Woody's characters in Small Time Crooks are lovable even when they're pathetic, even when they're predictable...