Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This quartet gained exposure in New York City less for its club shows than for its stunts: creating a supremely dumb sport, printing up sports cards and playing it outside the Today show set; and going to the post office dressed as the sketch of the Unabomber. The four (unlike most troupes, theirs includes a woman) met in Chicago, where they did time at Second City, developing their punk paranoia. "We all had fun doing the theater thing," says UCBer Matt Besser, "but throughout the seven years, the overriding goal was to get this thing on TV." Starting...
...Bill Clinton to look this good in the polls after six months of sex scandal is a measure of his survival skills, dumb luck and, above all, the wall of silence erected by his personal lawyer, David Kendall. It took a reserved Quaker who views the law in life-and-death terms to muzzle a politician used to talking his way out of trouble...
...like "Caucasian" or "Polynesian," because it was commonly used by other kids and teachers. In grade school, kids called me Suzie Wong, stretched out their eyes and asked me to teach them judo. I had no idea who Suzie Wong was, thought the eye thing was funny and felt dumb that I didn't know judo like I was supposed...
Rock plans to stick to comedies for now. "To me, Jim Carrey's most impressive work is Dumb & Dumber," Rock says. "It's society's ignorance about how hard comedy is that people go, 'Now he's really doing something in The Truman Show.' There are 30 guys in Hollywood who could do Truman. There's only one guy who could do Dumb & Dumber...
...Diego (played with impeccable elegance by Anthony Hopkins), making a comeback after suffering a long imprisonment, to fight a resurgence of tyranny in old, Spanish-controlled California. In the process he recruits a young, nimbler apprentice, Alejandro (portrayed by Antonio Banderas), who's not afraid of acting a little dumb until his mentor smartens him up, cools his ardent blood and teaches him the skills that make him worthy of wearing the black mask of the gallant outlaw...