Word: humors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depicting Africans as what appears to be smiling spear-chuckers, putting women on stone altars for sacrifice, and carrying white men (Bwanas?) around on thrones as if they were kings or gods, as being nothing more than just another cultural, joke, or perhaps a simple outlet for the divergent humor of some member of the Lampoon staff, then we are allowing a painful history of cruel persecution through colonization, degradation, and outright humiliation to be abused once again. We just can't allow people to go on ignoring the vital lessons which should have been learned from our painful history...
...sort of dream guy...I'll bet he lived a kind of double life...when a sucker cries for more you're a dope not to give him more." Although he's now broke because he donated money for the clerk's funeral, he maintains his sense of humor. "It sure was worth it to give Hughie a big send...
Well, given the competition, probably not, but it is safe to say that her outrageous, bitchy brand of humor has earned her the title of the funniest woman in the country. When she is host of the Tonight show, which she now is more than anyone else except Johnny Carson, she sometimes outdraws the man himself in the ratings. She is one of the few stars who can still pack houses in a depressed Las Vegas; her twelve-city tour in February was an instant sellout; and last week Geffen Records released her first album in years, What Becomes...
...grand old lady. The audience will make a subject sacrosanct anyway. Death, for example. They just don't want to laugh about death. I think we should. When my mother died, I kept going by doing joke after joke. I get rid of things through very black humor. I have a wonderful Karen Carpenter joke: 'I have no pity for anyone who becomes thin enough to get buried in pleats.' I tried it three times, and audiences gasped. They're just not ready...
Although Short actively pursued politics, he also distinguished himself with a fabulous sense of humor. Often donning a black leather jacket and black cap, he formed the "X" group at Harvard, which parodied the volatile politics...