Word: insult
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...star of his own TV sitcom. these days he's making a comeback as the star of TV ads for MCI. But Alf isn't the only puppet for adults that is garnering attention. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog performs this week at New York City's Irving Plaza--a prelude to a comedy album of "dirty doggie songs." Next up: Crank Yankers, a raunchy puppet show from Comedy Central. The appeal? "Puppets can get away with a lot of nonsense live actors can't," says Triumph creator Robert Smigel. A few to watch...
...Training for National Binary Code Insult Championships...
...Sketches of My Culture, Cornel West makes a traditionally elitist discourse palatable to the mass public with his radically-democratic prophetic voice. Rather than being praised for his overarching civic concern, West unfairly became the target of insult. The tragic irony is that faculty, students and colleagues hold West with utmost respect for his intellectual stature, compassionate character and brilliant insights. West empowers diverse and marginalized communities that traditionally are not privy to the rhetoric reserved for those within ivory towers. West ends his song with a challenge for professors, among others, to be on the front line...
...manager, another columnist, the columnist's wife, two of his clients, a cigarette girl and a fat cop. I can't think of another character in cinema history who gets harangued by so many or with such good reason. Yet Sidney is a resilient cuss; he can repackage any insult to suit the next guy in line. When a columnist in a night club spumes to Sidney that he and J.J. have "the scruples of a guinea pig and the morals of a gangster," Sidney walks over to another scribe and uses the words, nearly verbatim, as a characterization...
...week, just from two clients we hear complain to him during the movie, so is probably earning much more - is a cheapie who won't wear a topcoat on a winter night: "And leave a tip in every hat-check room in town?" But his thrift earns an insult from J.J. Leaving "21," J.J. asks him, "Where's your coat, Sidney? Saving tips...