Word: skits
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...course, straight talk has its limits. Reilly cheerfully told reporters that NBC had spent the past year "spinning" them that there were no problems with Joey. But now, he assured us, he believed honestly and candidly that the show "wasn't broken." (In a "Weekend Update" skit at Radio City, Tina Fey was not so kind. The HDTV broadcast of Joey, she said, was so clear, "you could actually see Matt LeBlanc's panic.") The new schedule NBC was announcing would go a long way toward turning around the network's fortunes. But, then again, they might change it within...
...lobbyists. But not any more. Letters and phone calls to congressional offices about DeLay have picked up sharply of late, an aide to the House GOP leadership says. The Majority Leader has become a punchline for late-night comedians; two weeks ago, he was the subject of the lead skit on Saturday Night Live. And one national poll, by Democrat Stan Greenberg, shows DeLay's name recognition at 77%-making him more famous than any other House member in modern history, except Newt Gingrich...
Mention killer bees and almost anyone will smile, recalling the long-running skit on TV's Saturday Night Live in which actors donned striped bee costumes and snarled, "We're the killer bees! Give us your pollen or your wife...
...Lately I’ve been swamped with a zillion records. Stuff I like—Chris Rock’s new album Never Scared is hilarious—he does his Michael Jackson skit, et al., and the Sri Lankan/London native M.I.A. whose parents were in the Tamil Resistance—she mixes dancehall with a lot of cool South Asian material, and then of course, there’s my new album Drums of Death with the folks from Slayer and Public Enemy. I listen to a lot of different styles, so that tends to flow through...
...humor employed in the interacts, as well as the two-part skit “The Apprentice in Bombay,” a parody of Donald Trump’s famous (or infamous) television series, provided a fresh perspective on Indian and Indian-American culture, serving up insight as well as laughter. “The Apprentice in Bombay” pitted a team of Indians against a team of Indian-Americans in a battle for Trump’s affection, and jokes and jabs were served up equally against both teams, along with a number against Trump himself...