Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asked comedians to come up with their best joke about the crisis in Russia. Here are their picks...
TIGHT SPOT Billed as the man to watch at the 1988 Democratic Convention, he delivers a turgid address that has Johnny Carson turning him into national joke...
...most menial tasks and they may be content to have their efforts go unrecognized, but they will not be made fun of on national television! Or at least one of them won't. Carrie Photsios, a former intern at the Justice Department, is suing JAY LENO over a joke he made using a photo of her standing next to President Clinton. The picture appeared in a recruitment brochure for Albion College. Leno remarked that the literature mentioned opportunities for "hands-on experience." Photsios, who claims she suffered "embarrassment, humiliation and indignity," is suing Leno and three others, including the station...
...lowly yeoman like Glenn will have his hands full getting ready to fly aboard his new ship. The first time Glenn flew, he was in a mere demitasse of a spacecraft--one with a single window, 56 toggle switches and barely 36 cu. ft. of habitable space. The joke around NASA in that earlier era was that you didn't so much climb inside a Mercury capsule...
...employed elsewhere, he says he doesn't want to go anywhere else. "If they end up firing me, jeez, I've always wanted to be a policeman. Maybe I'll take the test," he says. "I tell you one thing I won't do. I won't be a joke writer...