Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Behind all of Phil Hartman's characters lurked the same guy: uptight, inflated, slightly annoyed, but just self-aware enough to be in on the joke. In his personal life too, the longtime cast member of Saturday Night Live and NewsRadio seemed to be one of the few who appreciated the humor of celebrity, keeping his life in balance and low-key: a home in the unglamorous San Fernando Valley, a position as honorary sheriff in his town and a steady income from his TV show, small movie roles and voice-overs. So what happened early last Thursday morning...
Except that I'm a bit tired of the routine comedy that attends being father of the bride. Here's a joke I've been living on since the date was set: "I've learned the phrase 'And that's a very good price.' I ask them, 'What's a bad price?'" It earns the appropriate level of laughter...
Four years isn't a long time. It's one Olympics, one World Cup, one Presidential election, one undergraduate career. But for Harvard's football program, four years is exactly how long it took to transform a joke of a team into an awesome juggernaut...
...father used to say that Harvard had confused me with another Anne Krendl. "They switched your Social Security numbers," he'd say. "When they figure out their mistake, they'll let the right Anne Krendl in." It was a joke we shared, but a part of me always believed it. When I came to Harvard, I was convinced I had to justify my right to be here. Maybe I didn't deserve to get in, but I would prove that I deserved to stay. I still had time to discover the cure for cancer, I could personally find...
...spectacles--onstage fights, misogynistic wrestling matches--in which audiences (not to mention friends and colleagues) were kept in the dark as to what was real and what was an act. "That's why he's such a comedian's comedian," Carrey says. "He never let anybody in on the joke. That's our sickness--the audience has to know we're kidding, otherwise they won't like us. That's why we do this. Andy risked not being loved." At times in his career, Carrey has risked that too, and he's mused about quitting altogether. "Maybe I'll turn...