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...Fridays. S.N.L. Alumnus Harry Shearer calls Fridays "the Cloneheads"; but when the show was in direct competition with the Tonight Show, it frequently drew more viewers than Johnny Carson and forced NBC to produce its own late-Friday comedy series, SCTV Network/90, featuring the cast of yet another spoof show, the syndicated SCTV. Somebody out there must be laughing -maybe the networks and movie studios, all the way to the post-funny bank...
Years later, in the record New Orleans Function, Armstrong recalled the traditional funeral by using Flee as a Bird as the processional dirge, Didn't He Ramble as a sample of swinging postburial music and an affectionate spoof of graveside eulogy. Says the Rev. Satchmo: "Ashes to ashes/ Dust to dust/ It's too bad old Gate/ Couldn't have stayed on earth with us." Armstrong never referred to a jazz funeral. Those who have nurtured the tradition speak simply of a funeral "with a band of music." Given New Orleans' love for parades, the outcome...
...often, weak writing rules. Impossibilities abound, such as a scene where a wind-blown hat lures a girl to her doom, but somehow remains stationary overnight to provide a telltale clue. Blood Beach also tries to spoof know-it-all scientists and tight-fisted politicians, but is too lazy to drive its point home...
...attention to masturbation--as part of the characters' lives, and as a projected activity of the voyeuristic audience, the director and his unrestrainable camera. But the movie is hardly so sharply focused and all of a piece for this to be given much thought. The actors simply frown and spoof their way through the thing, treading water in the thickest nonsense until DePalma decides to drown the show in a wave of opulent violence...
...seminars and with a traveling lecture entitled "Please, Doctor, Watch Your Language," DeBakey (sister of Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey) campaigns against "medicant," her term for the linguistic disease that afflicts physicians. Lois and her sister Selma, who is also on the Baylor faculty, spoof the ways in which medicant fractures ordinary language by asking audiences to scan horrible examples from medical journals. A favorite: the article by a professional administrator that urged medical staffs to "take an aggressively penetrating approach to the communicative dimensions of the interfaces between institutions of medicine." Another example: "Birth weight and gestation were obtained...