The Pirates of Penzance ( New Year's Eve, 1879 ) also poked fun at grand opera conventions, sense of duty, family obligation, the " respectability " of civilisation and the peerage, and the relevance of a liberal education.

She also made a cameo appearance in It's a Great Feeling ( 1949 ), in which she poked fun at her own screen image.

The Chaser's War on Everything also featured a segment in its second season where it poked fun at the O ' Reilly factor.

Although Talk Soup poked fun at the talk shows, it also advertised the topics and guests of upcoming broadcasts of them.

The production was also more oriented towards actual games players than the first few series, which had been decidedly light in feature content, and no longer poked fun at ' nerds ' and ' geeks ', as it was young adults and not children and teenagers who appeared on the show ; indeed, they and the publicity-seeking celebrities were now the subject of jokes.

The Flemish TV comedy series Alles Kan Beter also poked fun at unintentional funny scenes from Flemish television broadcasts.

While Russell's humor is known for skewering Democrats and Republicans alike, his humorous tirades have also poked fun at third party, independent politicians and other prominent political ( and sometimes non-political ) figures.

The special also poked fun at the publicized fact that Eddie Murphy had refused to appear ; he was instead represented by " Eddie Murphy's Entourage.

A live version also poked fun at the " Elvis Lives?

Ataru also appears to have a good knowledge of the human body and its nerve points ; in the " The Final Chapter " movie, when Carla attempted to use her trademark bazooka, Ataru ' poked ' her on a part of her back and caused her to spasm and lose control of her weapon, firing it randomly.

On May 2, 2011, John Darkow, an editorial cartoonist at the Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, Missouri, created a cartoon using a nearly-verbatim version of Raabe's coroner character to announce the death of Osama bin Laden the previous day, which also poked fun at people who did not believe in bin Laden's actual death.

In the past it has also been poked fun at for being too bureaucratic and not applicable in the Real World.

" dating from 1969 has been issued by RCA on numerous occasions ( dubbed the " Laughing Version ", it even made the UK charts after Presley's death ), and he also poked fun at the song during his 1968 Comeback Special.

Ironically, Hickman also poked a little fun at the growing cynicism and rise in popularity of the gritty, scowling, heavy-handed anti-heroes who became so ubiquitous in the main-stream American comic industry from the late 1980s through the mid 2000s, but his " big break " came from a publisher primarily known for producing just such comics.

I was also publicly reprimanded, dragged through the mud by the radical press and made a figure of fun by such leftist publications as The New Republic, The New Yorker, Time and The Christian Science Monitor.

Many diving clubs have masters teams in addition to their primary competitive ones, and while some masters dive only for fun and fitness, there are also masters competitions, which range from the local to world championship level.

Entertainment may also provide fun, enjoyment and laughter.

Entertainment – any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time, and may also provide fun, enjoyment and laughter.

However, this was soon changed to FUDGE for " Free-form Universal Donated Gaming Engine ", but also because the word invoked connotations of an easy to make source of fun.

While almost any game can be played for money, and any game typically played for money can also be played just for fun, some games are generally offered in a casino setting.

Gamemasters must also maintain game balance: hideously overpowered monsters or players are no fun.

While obviously enjoyed by many as a bit of fun, an adrenaline rush, or an escape from reality, outdoor sport is also frequently used as an extremely effective medium in education and team building.

The developers made fun of this and named the in-game enemies " Jaggi ", and also initially titled the game Behind Jaggi Lines !.

Nintendo Power also listed it as the 20th best NES video game, and praised it for its " unique vertically scrolling stages, fun platforming, and infectious 8-bit tunes ", in spite of its " unmerciful difficulty ".

His role was also that of road manager and " Minister of Information ", the intellectual public face of the band for interviews et cetera, as Flavor Flav was the " fun " one.

The NBC sitcom 30 Rock often shows the power of synergy, while also poking fun at the use of the term in the corporate world.

Which was also no fun.

Boccaccio not only capitalizes on the tale to poke fun at the clerics of his day, but also at the simple-mindedness of some of his countrymen.

In a passing way presents the community of Thélème, which while serving to poke fun at monastic institutions, can also be seen as an ideal society dedicated to the cultivation of love.

Pinafore also pokes good-natured fun at patriotism, party politics, the Royal Navy, and the rise of unqualified people to positions of authority.

Besides more professional, properly theatrical performers, there is also a tradition of amateur fun.

The writers of Humphrey including Anthony O ' Donohue ( also long time and favourite host of the show ) attempt to set up each show as a new adventure for Humphrey that parallels the needs, fears and fun of the average four year old child.

The spirit of the rule is generally something in good fun ; while rules that unfairly sway the game in favor of one player or to the detriment of one specific player are quite easy to concoct (" Every time James plays a ten, he gets a penalty of ten cards "), they are also generally frowned upon as unsportsmanlike.

Daria and Jane also hosted MTV's Top Ten Animated Videos Countdown, poking fun at MTV's cheap animation.

The War Department also had concerns: they wanted to make sure that the film's portrayal of the departing soldiers " should result in giving the audience the feeling that these boys are normal, thoroughly fit American soldiers who have had an evening of clean fun.

It also pokes satirical fun at soap operas, New York show business agents and the Manhattan social pecking order.

Bob Paluck strived to maintain an atmosphere that promoted dedication and hard work, but also emphasized fun and creativity.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

She began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car in the one spot that most of the crowd had detoured slightly.

During his tenure he also fulfilled guest engagements at the Berlin State Opera.

Since 1944 he has also conducted regularly at the San Francisco Opera, where he made his debut with a memorable performance of Verdi's Falstaff.

And yet we obviously also believe that the avoidance of the disaster depends in some obscure or at least uncertain way on the details of how we behave.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

It resembles, too, pictures such as Durer and Bruegel did, in which all that looks at first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary, the representation of a proverb, for example, or a deadly sin.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

His repeated experimentation with the techniques of fiction testifies to an independence of mind and an originality of approach, but it also shows him touching at many points the stream of literary development back of him.

But it could also be looked at from the other end of the spectrum.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

That fall he submitted to Professor Baker the first acts and outlines of the following acts of several plays, six of them, according to some of his associates, and he also worked on a play that he first called Niggertown, the material for which he had collected during the summer at home.

Interestingly enough, the order transmitted to Morgan through Alexander Hamilton also informed him that `` A party of Indians will join the party to be sent from your command at Whitemarsh, and act with them ''.

The English, relying on a prejudiced arbiter and confronted with superior diplomatic skill, were also hampered in their negotiations by the events that were taking place at home.

The defeat and death of Adolf of Nassau at the hands of Albert of Habsburg also worked to the disadvantage of the English, for all the efforts to revive the anti-French coalition came to nothing when Philip made an alliance with the new king of the Romans.

He also sued them for taking toll of grain at their market.

Then we have surviving at least one instance of a poem prepared for another, in Naturam non Pati Senium, and perhaps also the De Idea Platonica.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

A slow and painful trend toward unification has taken hold, a trend which may at any time be arrested and reversed but which may also lead to a binding federation of Europe.

She also mentioned leaving a little bunch of flowers at the bust of Lauro Di Bosis.

Traffic in the next lane appears to be moving more smoothly so he pokes a tentative fender into Lane B, which is heavily populated by cars also moving at 70 m.p.h..

He also demanded that Kennedy take additional measures to increase international tension: specifically to crush the Cuban revolution, resume nuclear testing, resist more vigorously admission of China to its lawful seat in the United Nations, and postpone non-military programs at home ''.

The scientists have also warned that no life above ground or underground, sheltered or unsheltered could be expected to survive in an area at least 50 miles in diameter.