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The Saturday Night Live Wires. Saturday Night Live and SCTV unearthed a generation of gifted farceurs and mimics. The farceurs displayed their oversize personalities on TV, then did more of the same in Hollywood. John Candy, for instance, plays the jolly lug, coping with crisis by wearing it down. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead. Make Me Laugh | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

Still, the image of the jolly Irish drunk is one with which America is quite comfortable.

Author: By Kristine M. Zaleskas, | Title: Ireland: More Than Green Beer | 3/16/1991 | See Source »

Ungar, 44 and Bronx born, was a founding member of a jolly, one-hit '60s rock band, Cat Mother and the All-Night Newsboys. He has been running a fiddle-and-dance workshop every August for 12 years at the State University of New York, New Paltz, Ashokan Field Campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Fiddler's Turn: A modern lament finds a home on the charts | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

The Jolly (Premedicus Dweebus)--Members of this species, comprising a plurality of premeds, think reading period is the high point of the academic year. In reading period, they point out, they don't have to attend non-science classes. They can bask in their pre-med notes hour after hour...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Tracking the Indigenous Premed | 1/7/1991 | See Source »

The Jolly's notebooks glow in the dark, because every word on every page is highlighted in a different color. Each owns several dozen four-colored pens. To a Jolly, "social life" means "study groups."

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Tracking the Indigenous Premed | 1/7/1991 | See Source »

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