Word: skit
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...felt the competition of the raunchier Penthouse. By then Playboy was a successful franchise with news dealers and big advertisers to consider, and Hefner seemed unsure of how far was too far. On October 15, 1977, Hefner was the guest host of ?Saturday Night Live? and participated in a skit that imagined him, as the Playboy Philosopher, in ancient Greece, pontificating along with Plato and Socrates. At the end he stares into the camera and poses the Hamlet-like question: ?To go pink, or not to go pink...
...trying to be friendly/We just want money and fame/We're the X Generation/We just like to complain.") Collecting all 13 episodes, including one never aired, the two-disc set reunites the original cast and writers to reminisce about the doomed effort. Says Garofalo of one inspiredly weird skit (The Bride of Frankenstein remade in the style of Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives): "Even as we were doing it, I was wondering why we were doing it." For the DVD, Janeane, for the DVD. --By James Poniewozik
It’s a dig at the powers that be—Bush, cops, etc., and it’s basically in the style of the “In Living Color” Saturday Night Live skit. It begins with Batman and Robin finding themselves in a bad sort of neighborhood in a bad sort of alley. There are these two homeless men who grow more and more indignant. Eventually, the homeless men beat up the Dynamic Duo, steal their costumes, and start fighting crime on their own terms...
...Boston show, Aesop and Lif made much of the former’s decision to give up smoking, even dropping a skit in the middle of the show to dramatize Aesop’s rejection of the nicotine temptation. Just over a week later, Aesop caved. “I’m trying to cut down, but it’s just too much when you’re touring,” he said in an interview...
...songs, but wartime atrocities are still drummed into their heads in heavy-handed textbooks. Students are encouraged to remember Japan's unwillingness to apologize candidly for its wartime behavior. Little wonder that Li Li, a 21-year-old history student at Northwest who did not see the Japanese skit, said she felt that "clearly the offense was deliberate. They designed it to insult the audience. No one, including the dancers themselves, could have found the skit funny." The Xi'an riots provide only the most recent evidence of the hostility and distrust some Chinese still harbor toward their neighbors...