Word: comically
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...slavery effaced regional differences among Africans, 9/11 lumped together widely disparate people: many Arab Americans are not Muslim, and many Muslim Americans (Iranian, South Asian, black) are not Arab. Pop culture, to put it mildly, has paid less attention to these nuances. Maz Jobrani, an Iranian-American Axis comic and actor, says he's often cast as "Unspecified Foreign Guy" and plays an Indian cabdriver on The Knights of Prosperity...
...also the viewers. His second in command works the audience in a different way. Vincent Regan, the Captain, delivers the worst performance I’ve seen in a major motion picture this year. Largely due to the laughable overacting, Regan’s character serves only as unintentional comic relief. The film also suffers from a lame and sedate narrator whose lack of urgency harms the film’s momentum. Overall, weak acting, horrible dialogue, and utter absurdity ruin what could have, and should have, been one of the year’s best. The action alone isn?...
...show. Music Director Channing Yu ’93 and Stage Director Edward Eaton chose to remain faithful to the work’s original form, staging it with full orchestral accompaniment and keeping Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s libretto in German, albeit with English subtitles. The comic opera’s plot—full of surprise, deception, and intrigue—tells the story of the Marschallin Marie Therese, Princess von Werdenberg, and her lover Octavian. The opera begins when the Marschallin’s country cousin, the Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau, visits her to discuss...
...comedian Dave Chapelle wrought comic havoc by creating a fictional blind African-American who supports the Klu Klux Klan, unaware of his own blackness. But Farid Smahi is not a comedian, nor is he blind, although he does confound a stereotype: The son of Algerian parents and a longtime victim of anti-immigrant prejudice, Smahi is a candidate in France's forthcoming legislative election - for the anti-immigrant National Front of Jean-Marie...
...before you all declare your post-homophobia status and start calling all of your gay and lesbian friends faggots and dykes, consider this. Last year I knew an extremely irritating girl who had a habit of praising my comic delivery by deliriously cackling, “I love you; you’re so gay!” It was clear that this person saw me primarily as a clownish little faggot, instead of as Ben, and that she stupidly fancied herself a forward-thinking person because she could like me not just despite, but for my lovable gayness. Similarly...