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...took the form of an interview, conducted at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum by Chris L. Corcoran ’07, current president of the Student Advisory Committee (SAC) for the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP). Although Colbert made a few in-character jokes at the beginning of the interview—emphasizing that the Student Advisory Committee’s acronym makes the sound “sack” while gesturing towards his groin, for example—he quickly distanced himself from his creation. “My character is more about...
...book's questions is facetious. Why do snails carry houses on their backs? Because they love to go camping. No! exclaim Olten's gallery of youngsters, rendered in a variety of amusing tones and 'tudes. The following page provides the real answer. Little readers joining in on the repeated joke will hardly notice how much they're learning. Watch out for the final question: the funny answer is also the real...
...agenda journalism. The show seemed to revel in painting the three public-school chappies as upper-class tyro twits - especially young Andrew, who said of his morning reading material, "I like my newspaper because I've got shares in it" (a comment he later said had been a joke) and volunteered his opinion on pop music: "I think the Beatles are mad because they make too much noise, and their hair style is so bad." Suzy, when asked about black people, replied with a sleepy-eyed smile, "I don't know anybody who's colored. And I don't want...
...audience laughed at that remark, he looked to the crowd and said, “And it’s hilarious to me that you think that’s a joke...
...case of the UC, however, not only is the product fairly useless, but the factory has been deeply dysfunctional for years. In fact, other than asking for money that will be handed out unpredictably, the most interaction most of us have with the UC is the occasional cynical joke we might make...