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...lucky stiff. An actor-comic whose brief pre-Conan resume included doing stage productions of Brady Bunch scripts, he was now being paid to sit on a couch, scope out the guests' jowls for plastic-surgery scars and make wisecracks. "There were some days when I would joke to people, 'If I play my cards right, I won't have to say a word tonight,'" he says...
...Around Winchell buzzed a cordon of courtiers - the famous, the has-beens and wannabe's - and their representatives, the press agents, fighting to catch the columnist's attention and get an item (a joke, a movie deal, a simple "was glimpsed confabbing with...") in his daily mix of gossip. Like a duke's dresser in the court of the Sun King, a press agent sees his client at his worst and must present him at his best. The trick was to paint a heroic portrait, of a person with plenty to hide, and sell it to a columnist...
Additionally, Hasan compares the patriotism of Americans and Israelis to that of the Nazis and the Rwandans. At first I thought that this was a joke, but then he qualified the comparison by claiming that “it is unlikely that either Israel or America will ever commit crimes on this level of inhumanity.” It’s one thing to suggest that democracies thrive on their citizens’ right to question and challenge authority. It’s another to infer that strong patriotism could potentially lead to the support of mass murder. Last...
...remember so fondly from 1994. (She was introduced as "the only world-class athlete" of all six competitors, omitting the whole unpleasant knee-bashing business, but I'm sure Jones had her gloves inspected for horseshoes anyway.) The giggly Jones seemed to think the whole match was a big joke. Neither woman would disclose her weight because, you know, women who volunteer for Fox Celebrity Boxing are the shy type...
...this a joke?” someone yelled from the audience...