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Giggling and snorting wildly, he spun me around in a patently unpleasant manner, grunting "Ummm, yuk yuk, a fresh one, yuk yuk!" I was just about to try vomiting in self-defense when someone pre-empted me by incapacitating my assailant with a wide swing of one of her suede Nancy Sinatra boots. As he slumped forward, I fell safely to the pavement and ran as fast as I could...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Square Ordeal | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

Some of these songs may strike Heads fans as mainstream yuk. Guitars mush with drums which further meld into Byrne's vocals. No instrument stands out enough to give the songs the usual simplicity that demands concentration. Resembling a collection of Bruce Springsteen tunes, most of these songs can only be differentiated by their lyrics...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Wet Dishes | 7/4/1985 | See Source »

...restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf, the humor consultant described his unusual vocation. "All I'm trying to do is show where humor fits in. It's not a yuk a minute. It's not a bunch of jokes. Humor forces you to think about every point you're going to make during a speech. All it does is reinforce traditional practices but in a more pleasant, fun kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Learning to Laugh | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...invasion of Grenada has sparked a flurry of left and right-wing protests on campus. Right-wing yahoos are jubilant that the U.S. finally found a country small enough for Reagan's supercommandos to cream. Yuk it up, guys... if you think Cuba or Nicaragua is next, your CIA and Army buddies will find themselves stuck in a roach motel ("they'll check in but they won't check out"). To be sure, the spectacle of "rescued" U.S. medical students kissing American soil made better press for Reagan than the nightly newscasts of mangled bodies of over 200 dead Marines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grenada | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...jokes fall flat now and again. Heath after encountering mass hissing for a pun, turns unpleasantly to the audiences and says. You think that's joke' Look at your date. But such gattes are more than offset by other yuk yuks meluding one American Express gag that deserves to be kept quiet...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/23/1983 | See Source »

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