Word: skits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meet Thomas Wolfe, anti-Semite. An early skit begins, "Enter two Jews, arm in arm, gesticulating and exhorting each other loudly. Each bears a money bag in his free hand." The Jews say, "to be bank, to de bank, to de bank." Even as late as 1935 he believed that "the Nazis were simply exhibiting what he considered normal hostility toward the Jews...
...women cagers didn't even bother to hit the locker room for coaching during the half. They remained on the court to watch a skit staged by Co-Captain Trisha Brown's family and friends in honor of the senior's last game...
...million West Germans watched, a solemn Ayatullah Khomeini opened his arms to address a crowd of the faithful. The aged cleric was met by a hearty * round of . . . panties and bras tossed his way by impassioned women admirers. The 14-second TV skit, part of a popular satirical review, irked at least one viewer: Mohammed Javad Salari, Iran's ambassador to Bonn, who denounced the spoof as "insulting." Within days, Tehran had expelled two West German diplomats, closed down its consulates in West Germany for 24 hours and demanded an apology from the Bonn government...
...opening skit, for instance, shows the troupe cozy and snuggled together in a country cabin. What saves the audience from being overwhelmed by the niceness of it all, though, is the fact that these performers are talented, polished and very limber. All are expert at transforming themselves into inanimate objects, small children, slimy monsters, and so on. What they lack in satiric sharpness they usually make up for in fast pacing and the sheer accuracy of their mimicry...
...their popular spots features the Greensteins sitting in baby cribs and musing about a "talking orangutan." Customers routinely barge into Coronet demanding to see the TV stars, and trendy Manhattan nightclubs such as Danceteria, Chuckles and the Comic Strip have hired them to perform the orangutan skit onstage. Chortles Wayne: "We've become cult figures...