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...disorganized skit at the union which gave the impression that the weekend would be a wild orgy...
...last night's kickoff skit is any indication, Freshman Jubilee weekend will be boisterous, messy, disorganized, and fun. To announce the plans for the weeked and promote ticket sales, the Jubilee committee and the freshman council put on a nonsensical skit which ended with the floor of the Union covered by olives and chocolate syrup...
...President may not always be right," says one girl, "but you have to admit one thing: he's consistent!" Adds another: "Boris says he won't believe it till he hears L.B.J. deny it." In one skit, Rowan interviews Moses as he demonstrates against the pharaoh, who is "discriminating against us just because we've got long hair, beards and wear sandals." Rowan: "Gee, I can't imagine anyone feeling that way. How is it going?" Moses: "Badly! The pharaoh says it's O.K. to dissent so long as you don't disagree with...
...door. He rends his cutaway till it looks like sackcloth and he looks like ashes. Scott's countenance of epic frustration is phenomenally funny: a middle-aged Lear confronted with a thankless offspring. The evening's master treat, a carnival of sight-and-sound gags, this skit shows how Simon and Nichols can take a sit uation no bigger than a snowball and dislodge an avalanche of hilarity...
...another occasion, the censors censored a skit on censoring. In that playlet, Comedienne Elaine May and Tommy, portraying a pair of ridiculous bluenose censors, decide that they must substitute the word "arm" for "breast" in a script. "But won't that sound funny?" asks Tommy. "My heart beats wildly in my arm whenever you are near." Other routines that were cut were less innocuous. Such as the one in which Dickie says: "They have a fine ballet in Moscow." "Bolshoi," says Tommy. "No, no, Tommy, it really is a good ballet." That was touchy enough, but what really sent...