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...Emmy-winning actor and a regular on The Carol Burnett Show for more than a decade, Harvey Korman got his start in sketch comedy with appearances on The Red Skelton Show in 1961. But it was his work as a straight man opposite Burnett's over-the-top characters that truly marked him as a comic genius. He also graced the big screen, notably as the conniving Hedley Lamarr in the 1974 western comedy Blazing Saddles...
...Core will die. The Core is a dead core. This core is no more. It has shuffled off its mortal coil,” English professor W. James Simpson said, imitating a Monty Python sketch...
...prosecution's most important piece of evidence: the videotape. Kelly's defense attorneys filed at least one motion as late as Tuesday morning to prevent the tape from being shown. That motion, however, was unsuccessful. Then, the judge issued an odd warning via his pro bono spokesman: sketch artists might open themselves to child pornography charges - and a revocation of their press credentials - for drawing depictions of the tape. (On Wednesday, Gaughan revoked the press credentials of an artist who depicted jurors in a sketch published in Tuesday's Chicago Tribune...
...pieces connected by repeated references to everyday characters with absurd imaginations, the book reads like a Kurt Vonnegut novel. Handey’s narrator appears to be a middle-aged man with a penchant for his own “funny cowboy dance.” But the individual sketches are very much units unto themselves, preventing the book from having the virtuosic scope and insight of a “Cat’s Cradle” (not that it’s trying to be “Cat’s Cradle,” anyway). Handey?...
What do you get when you leave seven of Harvard’s undergraduate writers in a room? According to the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, the answer is “Sketches!!,” a compilation of 17 original comedic skits that will run at the Loeb Ex through May 10. Several months ago, the writers were offered the theme “Plan B” in order to kick-start the writing process. The theme was integrated into the sketches to varying degrees. One skit follows two men trying to come up with an alternative source...