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...above line was sung by comedian Steve Carell (who followed it by gently squatting onstage to loud coin sound effects) as part of his opening monologue for the season premiere of Saturday Night Live he hosted last month...

Author: By Hayes H. Davenport, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Like a ‘Virgin,’ Known for the Very First Time | 12/2/2005 | See Source »

...Underprivileged Child. “I think quite a few people from the ruling class would actually favor eating the flesh of poor children,” he says. “Larry Summers would love this product!” Although he’s quite the comedian, Nuckols is serious about Hufu. He earnestly says that “you can have the visceral experience of eating the flesh of another person.” And that’s no laughing matter...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pushing the Culinary Barrier | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

...Despite the public mea culpa, Hwang has considerable support in South Korea, where he's something of a national hero. Earlier this week, the female head of an info-tech consulting company, along with 11 other business people, a lawmaker and a female comedian, set up a non-profit foundation to encourage women to donate eggs to stem cell research. Eighty women have signed up so far, a foundation spokesperson said. There has been a backlash against broadcaster MBC for airing a program this week that highlighted the ethical questions about how Hwang obtained eggs. Koreans have called companies that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why South Koreans Defend a Cloning Scientist | 11/25/2005 | See Source »

...sexual scenarios trotted out before our eyes are enough to dizzy the hardiest of fans. Images of a B-movie shot atop an apartment building are interspersed with those of an old woman scrubbing the floor on hands and knees, and both are equally titillating to unfunny sometime-comedian David Cross, whose inclusion in the video merely serves to justify indie sex and swagger. The sexually dubious hotness only furthers the confusion one feels about the band’s new sound. The band speeds up to a climax that seems to say “Look, we have heard...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, Henry M. Cowles, and Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pop Screen | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...control over," says Black, who appears on the cable network's Evening Edition. Black notes that David Letterman started as a weatherman in Indiana. "Both jobs," he says, "are about making palatable the fact that the next five days are going to be miserable." Luckily, the comedian already has plenty of weather jokes in his act: "In Arizona they have monsoons, a wall of sand followed by water. That's not weather, that's pottery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 14, 2005 | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

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