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...president would testily shush her. "What are you doing?" he asked her at one point. "You're not going to be in this interview if you're going to start talking like that. George will call and he'll be furious." The interview sounded like the pilot for a sitcom...
Read her sardonic responses, and Aimee suddenly springs to life, as engaging as a well-written sitcom character. Aimee says putting up with the endless voyeurism is a fair price to pay in exchange for finding an appreciative audience for her writing. "I like to think I'm funny," she says. "Nobody would ever see that in real life. You draw them in with the camera, and then they'll stay and read your stuff." What some people won't do for their...
...slow-witted, henpecked husband (Tony Haygarth) have shown her prisoners what happens to a hen who hasn't laid eggs: it becomes a chicken with its head cut off. This fowl existence is driving even Ginger (Julia Sawalha, known to U.S. viewers as young Saffy on the Brit-import sitcom Absolutely Fabulous) close to desperation. Then, out of the sky, a savior drops with a thud. He is Rocky Roads (Gibson), the "flying rooster" from a traveling circus, and he vainly promises to teach the hens--this coop of flighty, flightless birds--how to soar to freedom. But while Rocky...
...lack a pulse to be on a U.S. stamp. Memorial stamps for Presidents can be issued on their first birthday after they die, but everyone else has to wait at least 10 years. Given this rule, stamp designers had little to work with after Americans last year voted the sitcom one of 15 cultural phenomena that best represent the 1990s...
Still, this company might IPO, so I tried to impress him with funny ways to use the bowie knife bit. I was halfway to developing a sitcom in which the wacky dictator's catchphrase was "Shut up, or I'll give you a head stabbing," when Tim told me the job he was offering me wasn't writing jokes, but controlling the site's content and managing a group of 30 producers. I asked Tim if it concerned him that I had no experience in technology, entertainment or managing people. "I'd much rather take a risk on a young...