Word: skit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of one SN skit that was in poor taste, the president of the local NBC affiliate, after receiving calls, canceled this program. Many are now unable to decide for themselves what they should and should not watch. But do not fret, we in the Wichita area now have the pleasure of viewing old Wagon Train reruns. So eat your hearts...
...commercial aired on New York City radio stations, a bank uses a skit to encourage listeners to put their money in savings accounts. In the sketch, a wife berates her husband as they stand in the midst of a barren desert. "You honestly believed you could resell this land at a profit?" she groans. "There's only one person in the world who'd buy it, and you already have." In fact, thousands of others have bought such desolate plots. According to an indictment handed down by a federal grand jury last week, 77,000 such "semiarid desert...
...extended joke that very quickly loses its savor. Monty Python's best routines have often been its shortest, and the longer ones--like "The Piranha Brothers" and "Fairy Tale"--were very often the only losers on their records. And Now for Something Completely Different was extremely funny, leaping from skit to skit without worrying much about continuity. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, by contrast, has a single unified story line about a deadpan King Arthur searching for, well, the Holy Grail. Instead of being simply a background for a series of more or less independent routines, the Arthurian motif...
...beast or to another woman. The Snake supplies her with the information with which she can save or kill her lover. In one of the sultrier moments of the evening, Barbara sings "I've Got What You Want," and asks the musical question, "Better dead than wed?" The skit ends without ever revealing what her decision is, but by this time, one is too happy that the skit is over to ask further questions...
...story, "Passionella, concerns Ella, played by Barbara Fazio, a chimney sweep who aspires to movie stardom. Her wish is granted by that irrepressible snake, and she finds her Prince Charming, a curious sequined admixture of Presley, James Dean and Jagger played by Michael Blake. "Passionella" is the most entertaining skit of the three. It is energetic and funny but, unfortunately, like the other skits, it is performed sloppily. Costume changes are made too hastily, sounds are emitted from the orchestra which have nothing to do with what is happening on stage, and the choreography is slipshod. Perhaps the plays would...