Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cards crew is sitting around a conference table, trying to make one another laugh. Today's subjects are office humor and holidays in February. A "Valentine's Day, My Ass" card for lonely hearts? Possibly. A motivational groundhog speaker? Probably. A support group for obscure Presidents? "'I passed the Smoot-Hawley tariff, but do I even get a tire ad?'" Absolutely...
...along with screenplays. John Hughes hired him when he was 40 to play a teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, asking him to speak extemporaneously on economics to a class. When Stein received applause from the crew members, he figured it was for successfully explaining the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, but they were just impressed that he could act so boring. Thus a career was made, leading to parts on The Wonder Years, Murphy Brown and Seinfeld...
Biggest blunders: Signed Smoot-Hawley tariff; ineffective in alleviating Great Depression...
Comedian Jack Handey may have had characters like Mump and Smoot in mind when he wrote, "To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where his started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed...
...Mump and Smoot manage to be little bit scary, a whole lot funny and more refreshingly original than anything to come to the A.R.T. in a long time. Check your clown prejudices at the door, and you'll be in for one of the most entertaining shows in town...