Word: sardonicism
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Can do? Just ask his friends and colleagues. Mike Reiss, an executive producer of The Simpsons, recalls that "we'd be working on rewrites, 16-hour days, with sweaty men glowering at each other. And Conan would always entertain us; he was the comedy writers' comedian. I'd call him...
All of it is revolving around Letterman. His new TV incarnation represents more than just a change of networks and an earlier bedtime; it marks the ascendance of a new generation. When Late Night with David Letterman made its debut on NBC in 1982, it was the prankish outsider, a...
The national press turned out in full, sardonic force for the opening of the Quayle museum, a sweet, rinky-dink exhibit on the ground floor of an 80- year-old neoclassical building on Warren Street, catty-corner to Dan's old school. The networks, the New York Times, the Washington...
Robert Dole. The once stolid, sardonic and brooding Senate minority leader has seemed positively giddy since Clinton moved into the White House. Dole has never before enjoyed the luxury of being minority leader against a Democratic President -- and he clearly likes the work. To be sure, the President has yet...
Back in the synthetic '70s, when disco and watered-down rock ruled the radio, a band called Steely Dan was making some of the most elegantly offbeat, wickedly incisive music ever to sneak onto the pop charts. Hits like Reeling in the Years and Rikki Don't Lose That Number...