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...Several Lampoon members took offense at my 6 a.m. e-mail, and I've discussed it with each of them," said Kocher. " My wit at that hour was more impressive than theirs...
...every other current sitcom set in a white suburban household, “Undergrads” should be able to capitalize on the essentially untapped comic potential its college setting provides. Its creator, a 22-year-old NYU drop-out, should be able to give the show the youthful wit and energy that won him the MTV Character Screen Test competition halfway through his freshman year of college. Yet despite its billing as “irreverent” and, even more inaccurately, “humorous,” the show could hardly be more conventional or disappointing...
...been here before: When it's Christie Whitman holding the bugle, you never know which way the troops are really going. To wit, Ari Fleischer on Monday...
...Prince Charles called him "one of the great life enhancers of our age," perhaps the best epitaph for SIR HARRY SECOMBE, an ebullient comedian, acclaimed tenor, film actor, charity worker, author, and longtime TV and radio personality. These were the extensions of an exuberant character, whose spontaneous wit never relied on malice to entertain. For those who grew up in Britain in the '50s, Secombe is best remembered as Neddy Seagoon of radio's long-running Goon Show. With Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Michael Bentine, Secombe gave us our first taste of alternative comedy. In those ordered, respectable times...
While the book is occasionally very funny, most of what seem to be attempts at dry wit fall flat, quite possibly having been lost in translation. Mark Fried has done a competent job bringing the book into English, but no more. Galeano seems to be aware of the dangers of translation, and has done much to attenuate them through his liberal use of the engravings of José Guadalupe Posada to illustrate the text. The book is worth buying just to see the whimsical woodcuts of skeletons, soldiers, dragons and peasants. Posada died in 1913; his illustrations survive not only...