Word: silverbacks
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...comedy jungle, where Robin Williams is a big silverback ape and Jon Stewart a sneaky hyena, Flight of the Conchords are tiny fawns. Their whimsical acoustic-guitar songs and gentle banter totter out on spindly legs to nibble at funny bones. The duo, who claim to be the "fourth most popular folk parodists in New Zealand," sing about the usual stuff--mistaken identity, killer robots, racist dragons--but with an earnest, blinking naivet�. It's a hemisphere away from the witty social commentary that reigns on America's comedy circuit. "I guess we're kind of nerdy hipsters," says Bret...
...Like the male silverback gorilla, you were protecting your mate from competing males. In this case, you should have just beat your chest for a while and I’m sure David and his friends would have vacated your stomping ground. Plus, although seemingly strange, they wouldn’t have thought you were half as idiotic as they...
...Like the male silverback gorilla, you have a two-inch penis, and you’re perpetually angry about it. In case you folks didn’t know, on average, the average football player has a member of below-average size. I’ve seen them all (and myself) in the shower. No, seriously. Noted philosopher Andrew Dice Clay, referring to meatheads in general, once said, “They’re 220 pounds of dynamite with a quarter-inch [expletive] fuse.” Tell me football player, did David’s friendly remark...
...other "angels"?sent out at the same time?were Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall. Goodall gained fame for her work with chimpanzees, detailing for the first time intercommunal warfare and cannibalism. Fossey, the subject of the Sigourney Weaver film Gorillas in the Mist, was instrumental in saving silverback gorillas from extinction...
...Family" was really a years-long territorial war fought in the home (it's no accident the character's name was "Bunker"). O'Connor played Archie like a shambling, endangered silverback gorilla prowling and growling futilely around the carpeted perimeter of his living room. The values he developed through the depression and a war were fraying and decaying like his upholstered TV-watching throne. (The prominence of his other throne - the upstairs toilet whose on-air flushing was so shocking three decades ago - underscored the theme of Archie as an Astoria King Lear...