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After the floor was opened up to questions, one person asked Stewart for her opinion about comedy spoofs poking fun at her image. Of particular interest to the audience was the topic of a recent "Saturday Night Live" skit in which a Martha Stewart character appeared topless...
...early comedy, of course, rather than the cinematic flourishes that installed the Beat Takeshi myth in the public consciousness. Before the designer suits and aviator glasses there was skit comedy and Beat's manic variety show persona. Beat loves to reminisce about the absurdity of some of his earlier sketches. "We put 40 or so talents in a bus and attached it to a crane above the water," Beat says. The passengers had to answer questions. If they answered correctly, the crane lifted them up. If they answered incorrectly, they were let down a notch closer to the water...
...skit, a member of the troupe, dressed as a private eye, joked about the changes President Bush has made in the nation's capital. For years Harvard graduates would travel back and forth between Washington D.C. and Boston; now 10,000 Harvard alumni all move in one direction--back to Boston--to make room for Bush's friends from Texas, the detective quipped...
...Number 9: There are laws against stalking. Number 8: I finally figured out the difference between East Timorians and West Texians. And Number 1: Strategery." That's right: "strategery". (For those who missed it, "strategery" - pronounced "stra-tee-jury" - is the word "Bush" used in recent "Saturday Night Live" skit...
...hell do you stretch a five-minute skit into an hour-and-a-half long movie...