" And the song " New York, New York " ( by Betty Comden and Adolph Green from the 1940s musical comedy and film, " On the Town ") explains that " The Bronx is up and the Battery's down.

There, Chapman displayed a gift for deadpan comedy ( particularly evident in the sketch " The Minister Who Falls to Pieces ") and for imitating various British dialects.

* Graham Chapman ( as " Ron Vibbentrop ") in the 1970 British television comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Naked Ant

Some stations insert a short snippet of stand-up comedy (" 5 O ' Clock Funnies ") around 5 o ' clock when commuters leave work, or play specifically selected " car tunes " ideal for listening while driving.

Risus ( Latin for “ laughter ”) is a comedy game ( often described by its creator as a " joke game ") and uses a cliché ( character class ) system inspired by the broad " career scale " skills in Greg Gorden's DC Heroes RPG ( Mayfair Games ), and later influenced by Atlas Games ' Over the Edge.

Thalia (; " the joyous, the flourishing ", from, thállein ; " to flourish, to be verdant ") was the Muse who presided over comedy and idyllic poetry.

* " El beso de Ariadna " (" Ariadne's Kiss ") is the name of a musical comedy act by Argentinian comedy-musical group Les Luthiers.

Tropic Thunder ( 2008 ) is a comedy film revolving around a group of prima donna actors making a Vietnam War film ( itself also named " Tropic Thunder ") when their fed-up writer and director decide to abandon them in the middle of the jungle, forcing them to fight their way out.

He has also appeared in Internet presentations, including a cameo in a comedy sketch (" Lock Out ") for LoadingReadyRun ( and a reprise of the same the following year in CommodoreHustle 4 ), and the May 30, 2008 episode of the Internet series Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show.

His musical interests led him to a starring role in the critically acclaimed 2008 comedy air-drumming film Adventures of Power, in which he was re-united on-screen with his co-star Jane Lynch ( from " For Your Consideration ") and starred alongside Adrian Grenier, Chiu Chi Ling, and Shoshannah Stern.

Svenska komedien 1737-1754 (" The Swedish comedy 1737-1754 ") ( in Swedish )

After the war, in 1946, she returned to her home in France, where she composed orchestral and chamber music, plus numerous other works including the ballets Paris-Magie ( with Lise Delarme ) and Parisiana ( for the Royal Ballet of Copenhaugen ), the operas Il était un petit navire ( with Henri Jeanson ), Dolores, La petite sirène ( with Philip Soupault, based on Hans Christian Andersen's story " The Little Mermaid ") and Le maître ( to a libretto by Ionesco ), the musical comedy Parfums, the Concerto des vaines paroles, for baritone voice, piano and orchestra, the Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra, the Concertino for Flute, Piano and Orchestra, the Second Piano Concerto, the Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra, her Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, the Sonata for Harp, as well as an impressive number of film and television scores.

" ( i. e., hysterical ) Said by Ringo Starr's Aunt Jessie in Magical Mystery Tour, also said by BSM Williams ( amongst many other malapropisms ) in the BBC comedy series It Ain't Half Hot Mum ( Episode: " Gloria's Finest Hour ")

Under the stage names " Ann " ( for " Announcer ") and later " Orphan Annie " and possibly " Your Favorite Enemy, Annie ", reportedly in reference to the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, ( or more likely, a reference to " Orphans ", the nickname given to Australian troops separated from their divisions in battle ), Toguri performed in comedy sketches and introduced recorded music, but never participated in any actual newscasts, with on-air speaking time of generally about 20 minutes.

Take It From Here ( often referred to as TIFH, pronounced — and sometimes humorously spelt — " TIFE ") was a British radio comedy programme broadcast by the BBC between 1948 and 1960.

Skelton was hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to lend comic relief to its Dr. Kildare medical dramas, but soon he was starring in comedy features ( as inept radio detective " The Fox ") and in Technicolor musicals.

The film starred Kate Beckinsale as Flora, Joanna Lumley ( also famed from her role as Patsy in the British TV comedy " Absolutely Fabulous ") as her friend and mentor Mary Smiling, Rufus Sewell as Seth, Ian McKellen as Amos Starkadder, Eileen Atkins as Judith, Stephen Fry as Mybug, Miriam Margolyes as Mrs. Beetle, and Angela Thorne as Mrs Hawk-Monitor.

", " On the Road to Find Out ", " Tea for the Tillerman " and " Miles from Nowhere ") were featured in the Hal Ashby and Colin Higgins ' black comedy film titled Harold and Maude, in 1971.

She appeared as a regular character (" Fiona ") in the Radio 4 comedy " Ed Reardon's Week ".

In 1645, his comedy Jodelet, ou le maître valet (" Jodelet, or the Valet as Master ") -- the actor who played the leading role was also called Jodelet.

Jordan appeared ( as " Douglas Fairbanks Rosenbloom ") in Warner's Damon Runyon comedy A Slight Case of Murder ( 1938 ), and at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Young Tom Edison ( 1940 ).

The Kenny Everett Video Show ( later renamed " The Kenny Everett Video Cassette ") was a groundbreaking television comedy programme on Thames Television from 3 July 1978 to 21 May 1981.

Bienvenidos ( Spanish for " Welcome ") is a Venezuelan sketch comedy television show.

These segments typically showed Charles Firth, a member of the Chaser comedy team, presenting his opinion on topical issues, often through use of over-the-top comparisons ( such as dipping a paper heart in a can of black paint and claiming: " This is how black Saddam Hussein's heart is ") and outrageous statements in a parody of O ' Reilly and Australian current affairs personalities.

from reaction times ( the " personal equation ") and had developed

This had the effect of inculcating the principle of lex orandi, lex credendi (" the law of prayer is the law of belief ") as the foundation of Anglican identity and confession.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

" Neon Deion " ( a. k. a. " Prime Time ") had a flashy appeal and helped bring media attention to one of the league's most anonymous franchises.

Sagan said he took this stance not because he thought astrology had any validity, but because he thought that the tone of the statement was authoritarian, and that dismissing astrology because there was no mechanism ( while " certainly a relevant point ") was not in itself convincing.

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the East electrode ' ( other candidates had been " eastode ", " oriode " and " anatolode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

He published a column (" Wrong Turn Onto Sesame Street ") challenging federally funded Public Television endowments in favor of educational comics — which, according to Capp, " didn't cost a dime in taxes and never had.

On December 30, 1918, Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin, who was Irish Catholic and who, earlier that month, had given birth to their first son, Albert Francis (" Sonny ") Capone.

") He was determined not to fight until he thought there had been sufficient preparation for a decisive victory, and put into action his beliefs with the gathering of resources, detailed planning, the training of troops — especially in clearing minefields and fighting at night — and in the use of 252 of the latest American-built Sherman tanks, 90 M7 Priest self-propelled howitzers, and making a personal visit to every unit involved in the offensive.

Once the keys had been pressed they were locked down until mechanical contacts in a distributor unit passed over the sector connected to that particular keyboard, when the keyboard was unlocked ready for the next character to be entered, with an audible click ( known as the " cadence signal ") to warn the operator.

Bellarmine's books bear the stamp of their period ; the effort for literary elegance ( so-called " maraviglia ") had given place to a desire to pile up as much material as possible, to embrace the whole field of human knowledge, and incorporate it into theology.

As a result of a study conducted in 1947, the policy was implemented that authorized the retroactive award of the Bronze Star Medal ( w / o " V ") to soldiers who had received the Combat Infantryman Badge or the Combat Medical Badge during World War II.

Cicero expressed extreme pride not only in being a novus homo (" new man "; comparable to a " self-made man ") who became consul even though none of his ancestors had ever served as a consul, but also in having become consul " in his year ".

Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum ( Latin, " the Prince of Mathematicians " or " the foremost of mathematicians ") and " greatest mathematician since antiquity ", Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.

Hence the expression praeteriti senatores (" senators passed over ") is equivalent to e senatu ejecti ( those removed from the senate ).</ br > In some cases, however, the censors did not acquiesce to this simple mode of proceeding, but addressed the senator whom they had noted, and publicly reprimanded him for his conduct.

The Data General Eclipse MV / 8000 (" Eagle ") had a SRAM writable control store, loaded on power-on through another CPU.

His motivation for changing it to something meaning ' the West electrode ' ( other candidates had been " westode ", " occiode " and " dysiode ") was to make it immune to a possible later change in the direction convention for current, whose exact nature was not known at the time.

His Tàichū (, " Grand Inception ") calendar of 104 BC had a year with the winter solstice in the 11th month and designated as intercalary any calendar month ( a month of 29 or 30 whole days ) during which the sun does not pass a principal term ( that is, remained within the same sign of the zodiac throughout ).

The species name troglodytes, Greek for " cave-dweller ", was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his book De generis humani varietate nativa liber (" on the natural varieties of the human genus ") published in 1776, This book was based on his dissertation presented one year before ( it had a date 16 Sep 1775 printed on its title page ) to the University of Göttingen for internal use only, thus the dissertation did not meet the conditions for published work in the sense of zoological nomenclature.

Formed by Harry Wayne Casey (" KC ") and Richard Finch, Miami's KC and the Sunshine Band had a string of disco-definitive top-five hits between 1975 and 1977, including " Get Down Tonight ", " That's the Way ( I Like It )", "( Shake, Shake, Shake ) Shake Your Booty ", " I'm Your Boogie Man " and " Keep It Comin ' Love ".

The second season had no connecting story arc ; plots varied from Wally finding disciples (" The Shroud of Wally ") to Dilbert being accused of mass murder (" The Trial ").

One is located at the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip, List of stores from the Bellagio hotel / casino website the other at the MGM Grand Casino in Macau. Press release by MGM Macau mentioning Chihuly shop ( search for " Chihuly retail ") A number of other galleries also carry his pieces. In 1983 Chihuly returned to his native Pacific Northwest where he continued to develop his own work at the Pilchuck Glass School, which he had helped to found in 1971.

It also claimed that the Dalek / Movellan war ( and indeed most of Dalek history before the destruction of " Skaro ") was actually faked for Davros's benefit ; the Daleks had discovered records of Skaro's destruction during their conquest of Earth, but, unable to change history, had developed an elaborate plot to bring the recorded events about while ensuring Skaro's survival.