Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...party-guy, the forerunner of the Big Beat Movement, and the master of the remix: Fatboy Slim, a.k.a. Norman Cook. On his new album, You've Come a Long Way, Baby, Fatboy Slim combines funk, soul, slamming techno and jazzy bits with ingenious samples and a vibrant sense of humor into a single, irresistible album. But unlike many other techno groups, Fatboy manages to maintain the immediate and improvisational texture of live club mixing while exploring the subtlety and precision of studio production--an innovative combination of his two previous albums, Better Living Through Chemistry and Live from the Floor...
...first track fades away into a monotone distortion that is unexpectedly disturbed by a radio sample ripped directly from the airwaves of Boston's own WBCN, a moment early in the album that shows the unique and hilarious humor characteristic of Fatboy's vocal sampling. The dialogue between a DJ and a caller serves as an interesting intro to the album's first single, "The Rockafeller Skank." The caller requests a song by Fatboy Slim, who he claims is "the band of the nineties," yet he can't even name the track that he wants to hear, except the continuously...
...premise behind The Compleat Works of Wllm Shakspr (abridged) is simple and stunning. A reduced cast, with reduced props, reduces the entire body of Shakespeare's work into a svelte two-hour fling whose high purpose is to reintroduce to Shakespearean Production the lost quality of side-splitting humor...
Though the script has been in existence for over fifteen years and has traveled several continents, it continues to have about it an air of freshly improvised parody. As with improv, the humor has an underdeveloped quality--potential jokes are left unexploited while the existent ones lack the sharpness of revision. Like the movie Wag the Dog, the premise of Compleat Works is loaded with humorous potential that remains largely unmined. Lines like "a nose by any other name would still smell" are funny but pale when compared to the sardonic text-twisting of Tom Stoppard's comparable Rosencrantz...
...that fret about making Shakespeare accessible to modern audiences. The show suggests that it is not Shakespeare, but the standard notions of how Shakespeare should be produced that are inaccessible. Men dressed as men, women as women, and the whole lot of them speaking lines too naturalistically for the humor to be understood--this is the vision of the Bard challenged by The Compleat Wrks...