Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know much about politics, but it seems to be a pet interest of many of the people I work with. So to fit in, I decided to half-listen during story meetings. The most interesting thing I learned is that candidates hire joke writers. Mark Katz, who is responsible for President Clinton's jokes, makes a good living doing this. I realized this is finally my opportunity to serve my country. If I could make the next year and a half a little more entertaining, I could die a patriot. Or at least make some extra money...
Smith, it turned out, was badly in need of a joke writer. The line he keeps using in speeches is, "We have a character in the White House; what we need is someone with character in the White House." This was going to be easy money...
...kisser, I'm a joke teller, I'm a dancer. I'm a somewhat everything and nothing big. I'm not stuck-up. I don't have none of that thinking that you're better than anybody. I didn't go to college. I didn't have no big great job. I haven't had anything big. I was just down-to-earth and I got along fine. I'm my own person, that's what it is and I'm still moving...
Should the most biting joke in an animated comedy about Manhattan in the year 3000 be that the city's airport has been re-named the John F. Kennedy Jr.? Probably not, but we don't get much more than that in Futurama, the latest from Simpsons' creator Matt Groening. The show lacks the vision of The Simpsons, the snappy rhythm and the kind of far-reaching humor that keep it dizzyingly smart even after a decade on the air. Is there anything good to say about Futurama? Sure, it's better than Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza...
...refer, of course, to Philo Taylor Farnsworth. The "of course" is meant as a joke, since almost no one outside the industry has ever heard of him. But we ought not to let the century expire without attempting to make amends...