Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kevin Kegan and David Land brought a female volunteer on stage. One clitoris joke later, the two performers ran into the wings, leaving the woman to return to her seat, visibly upset...
...JOKE about sex does not have to be sexist. Jokes about ethnicity are not necessarily racist. But on Friday night, there was at least one offensive joke for every mildly acceptable one. By the show's end, a third of the audience had walked out in protest...
...Although he was put forward as a joke, he did get votes--votes that probably would have gone to Evan," said council member Hillary K. Anger...
...initial ideas into workable parodies. Henry Beard '67 and Christopher Cerf '63 are two who could. Former members of the Harvard Lampoon, Beard and Cerf helped found the National Lampoon and have since worked on a number of humor books. Their latest effort, The Book of Sequels, combines one-joke zingers with several inspired parodies of literary classics...
...Cerf's words, the quick laugh category consists of those sequels whose title provides almost the entire joke. Examples of this genre include "2000: A Space Illiad," "Pride and Extreme Prejudice" and "The Library of Yiddish Sequels." Presented as a spoof of pretentious book collections, the "Yiddish Sequels" page contains some of this book's most memorable one-liners. Among the 80 titles: "Oy, Wilderness," "Two Gentile Men of Verona" and "To His Goy Mistress...