Word: uptight
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that Stern won?t have the FCC to kick around anymore (and vice versa). Of course, while the FCC may have cost Stern?s broadcasters buckets of cash, the content police created a brilliant comedic foil, allowing Stern to portray himself as an anti-establishment crusader, fighting uptight Washington bureaucrats with his renegade style. Will Howard Unbound be as funny as the guy who could always pull some boundary-skirting stunt to keep his audience amused? Stay tuned for The King of All Media?s answer...
...Meredith Morton, a prissy and uptight executive, meeting her boyfriend Everett Stone’s (Dermot Mulroney) parents for the first time, in “The Family Stone” Parker channels a woman more Bree Van Der Camp (of “Desperate Housewives”) than Carrie Bradshaw...
...polite and very enthusiastic. It’s all you can ask for.”Modi, who was the emcee for the show and has toured with Howard Stern, also appreciated the audience.“I knew that they couldn’t be uptight; I knew that they would be so cool and open to all types of comedy,” he said. The comedy show was one of a series of events sponsored by the Earthquake Relief Coalition, whose goal is to raise $50,000 for the relief effort. Of the $10,000 raised from...
...lunch time, and helen Clark is on to her second silly hat of the day. Here she is, at a suburban park in Auckland, turning the first sod of a motorway extension project in a fluoro-orange hard hat. This tableau of rent-a-crowd suits, marquee, hybrid cars, uptight minders, waiters, photographers and TV cameras can mean only one thing: New Zealand is midway through an election campaign. That's why, a few hours earlier, Clark put on a hair net and white coat for a tour of a biscuit factory on the city's southern fringe...
...That he can thrive in the independent and the studio world is pretty amazing," says Greg Kinnear, who plays an uptight opposing coach in Bears. "He's capable of understanding how to deliver what studios want and still keep a personal voice...