Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Well, I was not that into the falling and stuff. That just sort of came with the sketch. I don't like the physical stuff, 'cause it gets scary, hard, and you do get bruised. But, I really was sort of a clumsy person myself. I ate a lot of Captain Crunch and drank a lot of Coke so I was always a very spastic kid. I was always knocking things over in my own house and banging my head. Captain Crunch is the best. It makes me too shaky because it's so sugary - Captain Crunch with berries...
...only if you giggle when you hear the term "erector set." In Sandler's new album, half of the skits/songs fall into the lattermost category, and most of the other tracks occupy the second. While there are a couple of exceptions, including an entertaining but overly long midget referee sketch, the trouble with the skits is that Sandler believes there's no such thing as carrying a gag too far, even if it means maiming the characters. Five of the album's seven weirdos/perverts end up arrested, beaten or dead (don't worry; the midget remains untouched). Still, hardcore Sandler...
Rock sits at his desk, flipping through a manila folder with scripts from his writers for proposed sketches. This is the most important moment of the day--deciding what makes him laugh. "I like humor that's not really funny," he says. "I like talking about subjects that aren't funny in the first place and making them funny. So anything down and depressing is something I'll talk about." He accepts a sketch about a hate group (the wrinkle: the group hates its leader too). He rejects a documentary parody called Scared Straight in which gay men scare kids...
...survive. There are even real questions over whether he could muster the support of the necessary security forces to make a state of emergency effective." Meanwhile, as Muscovites live in fear of having their homes blown up, their confidence is not bolstered by local police work. Authorities released a sketch and the name of the wanted man Monday ? someone who turns out to have been killed in a car accident in February...
...week into the race, it's clear what kind of choice George W. Bush wants to offer America: Reagan vs. Bush. But this time Bush will play Reagan and Gore will play Bush. Get it? George W. hopes to sketch this contest (he's already thinking general election) as the sunny, straight-talkin', conservative cowboy from out West against the tense, aloof, out-of-touch elitist from back East. In other words, he's trying to assume the role perfected in 1980 by Ronald Reagan (but without all that pesky ideology) while casting Al Gore as the pencil-neck child...