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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...control and Native American economic development, unity meetings with Democrats on the Hill, relentless Rose Garden ceremonies that at some point were painful to watch, as when Clinton cued the Marine Band to drown out reporters' questions. Deputy spokesman Barry Toiv, last week's sacrificial lamb, could even joke about it with the rumbling White House press corps. "Hey, I am sorry," he said on arriving almost an hour late for the Wednesday briefing. "It is not easy getting up here and saying nothing. It takes a lot of preparation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over To You, Bill Clinton | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

Here's an original joke. What do you do with a famous columnist who lifts gags from someone else's book, then lies about having read it? Answer: Suspend him for two months without pay, then hope everyone's forgotten about it when he comes back. The Boston Globe told this rib-tickler Tuesday when it announced that top humorist Mike Barnicle, who reprinted loosely-disguised George Carlin quips from the bestselling book "Brain Droppings," would not be fired after all. Declaring that "the punishment did not fit the crime," editor Matthew Storin has withdrawn his demand for Barnicle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barnicle Meets His Punchline | 8/11/1998 | See Source »

Hurling, flatulence, jiggling breasts, the odd vibrator joke--all the elegant elements we've come to cherish in what is now, let's face it, the mainstream of American movie comedy--are present in BASEketball. So, of course, are the young TV masters of gross-out, South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, being mentored through their major--all right, maybe we're stretching a point here--motion-picture debut by one of the genre's old masters, David Zucker, auteur of Airplane! and the Naked Gun epics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zuck It To Me | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...media types gathered last week on a high deck of the M/S Disney Magic, impressed despite themselves at the grandeur of the 83,000-ton ship as it cut through the balmy Caribbean night on its final preinaugural cruise. "We're not moving, you know," one of the journalists joked. "It's just a big fan out there." Behind them, a sturdy voice piped up, "Well then, when you leave, would you turn it off?" The speaker was Michael Eisner, Disney's chairman and CEO, ever eager to make a joke about saving a buck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kingdom on the Sea | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...industry swamped with angry men and penis jokes, recent college grad Beckwith's material is a tough sell. In a seven-minute set, she'll maybe get through three long jokes, but the traveling is interesting. In one bit, she dismisses big-screen TVs, arguing that the joy of television is having tiny people entertain you. "I think there should be openings for food and water so that it's as if you could actually feed the tiny people. 'Hello, tiny people! It is time for supper! Feast! Feast!'" But while she wanders to that punch line, she takes some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny: The Next Generation | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

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