Word: wit
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Entertaining the audience with his dry wit, the star of “The Anniversary Party” kept the show moving at a characteristically brisk pace, chastising winners whose speeches exceeded the five word limit...
...clamored over Metro, debated national and international news, spent Sunday mornings lingering over comics and Book World. As I grew older and began writing myself, I made it a ritual to read every word, every day. When I went to college, I found myself missing the heft and wit of this capital newspaper. By that time, like any soul who lived and breathed within the Beltway (and an extraordinary number from without), I knew damn well who Katharine Graham was, and what she stood...
...little-seen 1950s appearances on What's My Line? Amid the garish capitalist thunderdomes of today's prime-time game shows, seeing an urbane Lemmon and publisher Bennett Cerf trade quips in tuxes was a mini-lesson in changed American mores. "There was a real New York sophistication and wit in game shows then," says GSN president Rich Cronin. Likewise, watching the network's reruns of the post-sexual revolution yet pre-feminist Newlywed Game--the Stepfordized housewives talking about mixing their husbands' after-work cocktails, the jokes about "making whoopee"--is like watching a new version...
...Stewart presides over Comedy Central's The Daily Show, a blessed wedding of performer and format. Free of the burden of a full stand-up monologue, Stewart is able to put all his energy and wit into the news and guest spots. The word energy is almost too strong. Much of Stewart's humor seems to spring from an underlying terrain of world-weariness...
...struggling composer's own angst at reaching his 30th birthday. Yet this Portrait of the Artist as a Young Neurotic makes up for its self-involvement (Jon tries to get his agent on the phone; Jon gets an encouraging phone call from Stephen Sondheim) with sincerity and self-deprecating wit, along with Larson's passionate, rock-inspired music. He was trying to push the musical into new territory; Tick, Tick...Boom! is a heartfelt, oddly uplifting glimpse of a sadly unfulfilled innovator...