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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...name.) Strutting around in uniform with a charismatic squint and a terrifically nasal speaking voice, Klyce’s strong, clear tenor plays second fiddle only to his great comic timing. There’s a joke involving the hilt of his sword and an erection that is much funnier than it has any business being, and that’s entirely to Klyce’s credit...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: ‘Utopia’ Is a Near-Perfect Production | 4/9/2007 | See Source »

...should focus on comparing yourself with your past performances. It is critical that you concentrate this goal on yourself only, directing your thoughts solely on your own performance and not on the performance of other competitors. For instance, my performance goal for each column is to have it be funnier than my last piece. I want it be so funny that when everyone reads it they think about how much awesomer and cooler I am than all of the other Crimson columnists...

Author: By Eric A. Kester | Title: The Psychology of Humor | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense." Let's Face It: "Throaty Betty Hutton provides a diversion with a machine-gun-speed offering of Let's Not Talk About Love." And the Angels Sing: [Hutton] gets funnier with every picture. She is the most startling expression of natural force since the Johnstown Flood." In The Stork Club, "Her songs are undistinguished but her uninhibited way of putting them over is an eclectic mixture of Harlem and Bali, with a shout from the heyday of Ethel Merman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Betty Got Frank | 3/31/2007 | See Source »

...Does he really think immigration can be reduced to "white people finding a loophole in slavery laws"--or was that a joke? Rock has demonstrated many times that he is smart. He doesn't need to stay trapped in the punch lines of the 1970s. The truth would be funnier and more helpful to us all. Bryce Ingman, LOS ANGELES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Apr. 9, 2007 | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...glow had turned tens of thousands of New Yorkers into night-crawling scamps instead of the select fraternity that stayed out late carousing when Skaggs had first arrived. And Skaggs did wonder if the city's gas-fired wakefulness had begun to overstimulate its inhabitants, make them merrier, louder, funnier, stranger, greedier, crazed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: A New World Ablaze | 3/9/2007 | See Source »

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