Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Could there be poetic justice for the bard of black humor? Yes, and of a kind he might have appreciated. Sam Kinison, the frenetic comedian whose very mildest joke was a recommendation that his audience "drink and drive," was killed in California last year when a 17-year-old with a lot of beer cans in his vehicle smashed into Kinison's car. Witnesses said the teen surveyed the carnage and woozily exclaimed, "God! Look at my truck!" As for Kinison, a former Pentecostal minister turned scourge of all things decent, he seemed to be in an urgent discussion with...
...which Paul Begala merely sighs in agreement. "I'm beginning to feel like General Custer in that old joke -- where he looks up kind of startled and says, 'Where the hell did all these Indians come from?' Only our Indians are Republicans -- and now they'll be even less inclined to listen when we urge them to put country before party." Which means that from here...
Witness the joke told by President Neil L. Rudenstine in this week's Faculty meeting as he spoke about the University's relationship with ROTC...
...first-year, Gabay's first bid for a council seat--a "freshman joke candidacy"--was unsuccessful...
...long scene in which Kramer sits in the barber chair while the two Italians have an argument. One of the actors spontaneously reaches for Richards' lapels to emphasize a point. "Don't grab me," Richards snaps, out of character. "I'm not a pork chop!" It is not a joke...