Word: funnyman
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...illustrious films is The Santa Clause 2. Though the public wasn’t exactly picketing for a sequel to the 1994 original, the sparkly $145 million that the film cashed in at the U.S. box office was enough for our friends at Disney to ask funnyman Tim Allen to put on his fat suit once again. But as Santa rushes to save Christmas once again, the plot of The Santa Clause 2 remains as predictable as an episode of “Home Improvement...
...dwelt in cellars, they were best-cellars. He wrote, he lectured, and he was not too arch or arty To appear as a panelist on TV's "Masquerade Party." He called himself not a poet but a "worsifier," But to me Nash was wit's November breeze or the funnyman of freon or the iceman comic or whatever suggests a synonym for coolness and the reversifier. There were other poets whom academe might choose to throw glory at, But Nash was our light-poet laureate. If you doubt that Nash is the perfect bedside midnight snack, if not a feast...
...least in the short term, the terror attacks have not yet changed pop culture so much as suspended it. "No humor column today," wrote syndicated funnyman Dave Barry. "I don't want to write it, and you don't want to read it." Sports went on hiatus, and after they returned, a preseason hockey game between longtime rivals New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers ended with the players watching President Bush's address to Congress, shaking hands and skating off the ice in midgame. Satirical websites theonion.com and modernhumorist.com interrupted publication. A five-hour Law & Order mini-series...
...word suggests cardigan sweaters," says David Sedaris. The word is humorist. He doesn't like it. It's not as bad as funnyman, but it's close. "The humor section," he whines into the phone, speaking long distance from Paris, where he has been living because he's a smoker and so are most Parisians, "is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons...
...Funnyman Michael Moore, the noted documentary filmmaker of Roger and Me, challenged the energetic crowd, many of whom were young voters, to stick with their convictions and not vote for Gore simply to vote against Bush...