Word: righting
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...there too. Comedy that breaks--rules, conventions, boundaries of taste--is a tricky business. Break too much, and the audience hates you. (No one has asked Roseanne to sing the National Anthem or invited Andrew Dice Clay to a NOW dinner in a long time.) But break just right, and you get the deep-from-the-gut, disbelieving laughter that mere benders will never know...
...that chases its tail endlessly, shouting, "I'll rule you, wagging bastard!" But Smigel's decision to do TV Funhouse for Comedy Central, a network whose antic sensibility dovetails nicely with his own, at least gives the show a fighting chance. "We did Dana Carvey on ABC right after they were bought by Disney," he recalls. "It never had a shot. Now, if I was doing this on NBC, the budget would be a few hundred grand more and it would be easier to do, and it'd be off the air in about six weeks. The idea...
...want a laugh, my angst-ridden American friend? In Canada, the leader of the right-wing Canadian Alliance Party, STOCKWELL DAY, proposed an easier way to decide whether to hold a referendum: if just 3% of voters sign a petition. In response, a TV show circulated an Internet petition to get the government to demand that Day change his first name to Doris. After three days it received more signatures than required--although it may have helped that anyone could sign a number of times...
Wayne met with the OWL staff monthly and lost about 2 lbs. every five weeks, progress Ludwig described as "just right." (OWL stresses a different way of eating and living, not rapid, extreme weight loss.) With a structure and system behind her--psychologist Sagarin even offered to serve as a conduit between the family and Wayne's school--Bernadette became better able to help her son. Last summer Kevin Sibley, a mentor at a local YMCA, picked Wayne to join Sports Scholars, a physically demanding daily program for young boys. In a journal that Sibley required, Wayne drew an early...
...central air conditioning, an outdoor barbecue grill, a large TV, VCR and CD player, and cockpit controls. That was just the lower deck. Up top was a second cockpit, a wet bar and another refrigerator. Our girls zeroed in on what counted most for them--a steep water slide right off the top deck...