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...Using his considerable experience as a stand-up comedian, he brings a nice glint of unpredictability to proceedings. Adonis Siddique, as his much-maligned footman, is also drolly funny....
...The father of democracy, that Greek fellow called... Look it up! See, I have nothing against the Greeks. They gave us this great yoghurt which is very good for bowel movement....
...Keats’s emotive poems, less widely hailed during his lifetime, were elevated by fellow Romantics and subsequent Victorian admirers....
...I love it when comedians start doing physical theatre and clowning and making funny noises....
...As Yoram Bauman, an economist and comedian, once joked: “The only reason we don’t sell our children is that we think they’ll be worth more later.”...
...One of the quirks of Lohan’s story is that she defended him after his sexual crimes were exposed in 2017; Ditum suggests she may have felt more solidarity with a man she saw as a fellow victim of media intrusion...
...When Barry Humphries died last week, a third ventricle burst in the hearts of many of his fellow Aussies. It was hard enough with Robert Hughes and Clive James gone....
...He senses: the sexual paranoia of his boss, the neglected feeling of his own wife, the romantic desperation of a local chump called Roderigo, the mix of ambition and chivalric honour in a fellow soldier....
...I remember a comedian joking at the time that if the coronavirus were sentient, it might puzzle over our distress and ask, “But I thought this is what you wanted?” The lockdowns ended....
...tells his side of the story During his speedy ascent, jailed crypto wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried deftly used endorsements from some of the world’s most famous people — Tom Brady, Gisele Bündchen and even comedian...
...The first episode features comedian Dawn French, who says she wants to die on stage, “Tommy Cooper-style”, to laughter and applause....
...Disgruntled by his neighbour tediously practising the piano in the next-door cottage of their Hollywood hotel, the comedian Harpo Marx responded by playing the opening bars of the famous Rachmaninoff Prelude...
...“Machado is an outspoken voice, which isn’t easy in Venezuela’s male-dominated politics,” said Geoff Ramsey, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington....
...Sittenfeld is a fan of comedians’ memoirs, saying once that her comfort reads are “essay collection / autobiography hybrids by comedians, especially those who have been on Saturday Night Live”....
...I envy my Jewish and Muslim friends, whose communities often show a commitment to their old people and their fellow worshippers, which lapsed Christians lack....
...John Travolta published a weird short fable about flying, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, in 1997; fellow actor Jamie Lee Curtis kicked off a 25-year career as an enthusiastic children’s author with When...
...Most of his fellow bodybuilders avoided the mainstream press because the reporters seemed hostile, he says....
...December saw the initial release of the “Twitter Files”, in which she — at the invitation of the platform’s owner Elon Musk — trawled through Twitter’s internal archives with a group of fellow independent...
...Stewart’s popularity is clearly undimmed from The Daily Show’s pomp, when, in the eyes of many viewers, he was as much truth-telling journalist as comedian....
...A new generation of young women – fans and fellow musicians – has discovered Allen’s music....
...Russia is also a fellow member of the so-called Brics group, considered the five most important emerging economies. The other three are India, China and South Africa....
...Its ethos was summed up by the comedian Frank Skinner, who told the sixth issue: “I’ve never gone along with all this new man bollocks . . ....
...A comedian becomes a political leader and a penetrating Financial Times columnist becomes a maths teacher. Two ex-prime ministers will now be looking for new outlets....
...The Interview, the Seth Rogen movie that supposedly sparked Kim Jong Un’s ire and the subsequent hack, only parodied Kim because fellow comedian writer/actor Sacha Baron Cohen already had the Middle East...
...Rogers’ London restaurant is a fabled hang-out for actors, artists, writers, musicians and fellow chefs....
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