Word: skit
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...then there was the "Linguistics Lunch" my junior year, held once a week in Eliot House, right after Intro. to Indo-European. At the Department's biannual wine and-cheese parties, it's become a tradition for the undergraduates to put on a humorous five-minute skit satirizing the department (or, more likely these days, the administration...
...BOTTOM LINE: Another Saturday Night Live skit is turned into a winning movie. And this one has a little heart...
...good portion of the cast. Meyers ends up more or less holding a cardboard cutout of Charlie in front of his face as he does his cheap humor bit, a little like he does every week on TV. In fact, the character from Meyer's occasionally-shown Scottish store skit almost makes an appearance of his own when Meyers plays Charlie's Scottish father...
...ends up feeling like the infamous Juice sketch on SNL where one bad thirty-second joke is stretched into a fifteen-minute skit. Instead, though, the movie is a fifteen-minute skit that is stretched out to an hour and a half with SNL players sprinkled around in one-shot roles...
...Operation Wandering Soul (aside from a surprisingly lame title) is that amid all its commotion, not much happens. Kraft and Espera try to have a romance, but they are too benumbed to make it work. Some of the hospital's sick children, not very convincingly, take a Pied Piper skit on tour. The author tells us that his hero is modeled after his own older brother, a surgeon, and sure enough, "Kraft" can be translated from German as power. The clue fits; despite mighty imaginings, the admiring younger brother has been too deferential to invent a story...