Word: radio
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...love you, they really do love you," he has said, in what seems to be a dead-serious, Sally Field fashion, "and that's one of the nicest things about being a comedian." Pre-Python, Idle contributed a Beatles parody song, "I Want to Hold Your Handle," to the radio show on which Cleese was appearing, I'm Sorry, I'll Repeat That Again. And he pursued the similarity by playing the McCartney role, Dirk McQuickly, in his faux-Beatles mockumentary (one of the first, by the way), the Rutles tribute film All You Need Is Cash...
...Until the late '50s, popular British humor came from the working class. Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, the Goons whose wild radio comedy enthralled all classes (Prince Charles was a particular fan), had never gone near a university. That changed with Beyond the Fringe, a comedy revue written by and starring four recent graduates from Cambridge (Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller) and Oxford (Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore). Quite a few shapers of the national smile over the next decade or so were Oxonians, like the creators of the influential satirical magazine Private Eye, who had first convened...
...other hand, the younger Ford brother, an Unknown Quantity if there ever was one, has surprised everyone with two consecutive strong showings - in a radio interview and in a health-care debate last week where he put in an well-prepped performance. Jake Ford and the Republican White appeared but Cohen, being feted at a local fund-raiser by celeb Cybill Shepherd, skipped the event. As blogger Matthews headlined in his latest post: "Jake Ford May Not Be A Joke After...
...bound by a medium and not by geography, they have been able to nationalize fund raising for congressional and Senate races more effectively than other groups of their size and relative inexperience. They are also the liberal rival to conservative "noise machines" like the online Drudge Report and talk-radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh. When Allen called an opponent's political operative by the racial slur macaca at a recent rally, the blogs touted the video, and the incident became a national story, contributing to a troubled campaign that has shrunk Allen's lead in his Senate race from double...
This last point was especially true on “Fuel for Fire,” from Ward’s last album, “Transistor Radio.” The song’s swelling lonesomeness was amplified by Ward’s plaintive harmonica playing; in devoting an entire verse to the instrument, he showed off a formidable instrumental talent that added a fresh layer to Ward’s antiqued radio-sentimentalism. “Helicopter,” from the quieter “Transfiguration of Vincent,” also benefited from some harp...