However, this edition provoked controversy over certain sketches that viewers found to be derogatory and racist ; such a sketch about the assassination of then-American president-elect Barack Obama, and a sketch making fun of anglophones.

Garrett Morris, who felt degraded from years of small roles and what he saw as racist sketches ( at one point the writers were going to have him do a fake ad for " Tar Baby " toothpaste, which would make blacks ' teeth stop glowing in the dark – only when black crew members walked off the set in protest did Michaels drop the idea ), began free-basing cocaine and became unreliable.

Besides, the games and the sketches were considered as ridiculous and stupid, sometimes racist.

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

Though no longer able to turn out his protoplasmic pen-and-ink sketches ( several old favorites are scattered through the present volume ) Thurber has retained unimpaired his vision of humor as a thing of simple, unaffected humanness.

His home a few kilometers outside Banyuls, also the site of his final resting place, has been turned into a museum where a number of his works and sketches are displayed.

In addition, the symphony also emerged from other pieces by Beethoven that, while completed works in their own right, are also in some sense sketches for the future symphony.

* The poem " Be Angry at the Sun " by Robinson Jeffers includes the line " You are not Catullus, you know, To lampoon these crude sketches of Caesar.

Bits are the clown's sketches or routines made up of one or more gags either worked out and timed before going on stage or impromptu bits composed of familiar improvisational material.

Because these vary considerably, and because only a few sketches are known to have been drawn from live specimens, its exact appearance remains a mystery.

The art could range from simple sketches, to reproductions of large elaborate works painted in oil or acrylic, though most are created in ink.

The sketches are notable for their principal catchphrase, " Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Presented as five-minute sketches, many machinima comedies are analogous to Internet Flash animations.

" In line with Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama and preliminary sketches of the Arcades Project, Adorno likened philosophical interpretation to experiments which should be conducted " until they arrive at figurations in which the answers are legible, while the questions themselves vanish.

Among the mechanical devices Villard sketched are a perpetual-motion machine, a water-driven saw, a number of automata, lifting devices, war engines ( a trebuchet ) as well as a number of anatomical and geometric sketches for portraiture and architecture.

He often made sketches and drafts ; unlike Beethoven's these are mostly not preserved, as his wife sought to destroy them after his death.

The hand drawn sketches of views and rough maps of walks together with the descriptive nature of the walks are like those of the Wainwright guides to the Lake District ( see Lakeland Guides ).

There are however indications of some later unfulfilled operatic projects, which survive as parts or sketches of libretti, such as Il ritorno dell ' amore by Renato Simoni, Malena by Ettore Moschino, and La rosa di Pompei, also by Moschino ( dated " Naples, 20 May 1924 ").

These sketches are often incorrectly considered the precedent to modern manga, as Hokusai's Manga is a collection of sketches ( of animals, people, objects, etc.

There have been several attempts to complete these sketches and prepare them for performance, as well as completions of his later sketches for an instrumental Finale, but only the first three movements of the symphony are usually performed.

Most Raphael drawings are rather precise — even initial sketches with naked outline figures are carefully drawn, and later working drawings often have a high degree of finish, with shading and sometimes highlights in white.

They lack the freedom and energy of some of Leonardo's and Michelangelo's sketches, but are nearly always aesthetically very satisfying.

Cook and Moore are most remembered for their sketches as two working-class men, Pete and Dud, in macs and cloth caps, commenting on politics and the arts, but they fashioned a series of one-off characters, usually with Moore in the role of interviewer to one of Cook's upper-class eccentrics.

A superficial reading gives the impression that they are sketches of village or suburban life, and comedies of manners, studying the social activities connected with the Anglican church ( in particular its the Anglo-Catholic parish.

Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and / or visual medium such as broadcasting.

Michelangelo hurried to Sangallo's solitary bachelor room with his sketches, asked the architect to design a stand which would simulate the seated Madonna.

`` When working from one of my sketches I square it up and project its linear form freehand to the watercolor sheet with charcoal.

Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.

During the making recently of an important Biblical film, some 40 volumes of research material and sketches not only of costumes and interiors, but of architectural developments, sports arenas, vehicles, and other paraphernalia were compiled, consulted, and complied with.

Serving in his capacity as honorary chairman, Capp made public appearances on its behalf for years, contributed free artwork for its annual fund-raising appeals, and entertained crippled and paraplegic children in children's hospitals with inspirational pep talks, humorous stories and sketches.

The first of the five books begins with some geographical background, and then sketches the history of England, beginning with Caesar's invasion in 55 BC.

Whenever Potter went on holiday to the Lake District or Scotland, she sent letters to young friends illustrating them with quick sketches.

The concept of mixing pathos with comedy was likely learnt from Karno: Stan Laurel, Chaplin's co-performer at the company, remembered that Karno's sketches regularly inserted " a bit of sentiment right in the middle of a funny music hall turn ".

His father was gifted at drawing as well, wooing Alston's mother with small sketches in the medians of letters he wrote her.

He also experimented behind the camera with pre-filmed sketches, notably directing a documentary-style short starring Shearer and Short as synchronized swimmers.

Various History — for the most part preserved only in an abridged form — is Aelian's other well-known work, a miscellany of anecdotes and biographical sketches, lists, pithy maxims, and descriptions of natural wonders and strange local customs, in 14 books, with many surprises for the cultural historian and the mythographer, anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights and myths instructively retold.

* The 2009 CBBC series Horrible Histories, with Mathew Baynton playing Cesare Borgia in one of the sketches.

Tilsley responded with two or three sketches, from which was selected the now-familiar red chalice.

The programme comprised a series of sketches, often bizarre and surreal, frequently satirical with a disjointed style which was to become more famous in the more daring Monty Python's Flying Circus, which followed five months later.

McLean co-edited the book Songs and Sketches of the First Clearwater Crew with sketches by Thomas B. Allen for which Pete Seeger wrote the foreword.

A pair of these expensive and bulky machines could only be afforded by companies with a serious need to communicate drawings, design sketches or signed documents between distant locations, such as an office and factory.

The TV special was a collection of sketches based on Aukrust's books, with no real story line.

After 1. 5 years of work, it was decided that it didn't really work as a whole, so production on the TV special was stopped ( with the exception of some very short clips, no material from it has ever been seen by the public ), But about one year after the rejection, Ivo Caprino's son, Remo Caprino, got the idea to make the sketches into a full-length film.

( In earlier seasons, the " Gossip Girls " and " Gloom, Despair .." sketches would both end with a repeat of the song's chorus, but in later years that practice was eliminated.

One " Giger Bar " sprang up in Tokyo, but the realization of his designs were a great disappointment to the artist, since the Japanese organization behind the venture did not wait for his final designs, but decided to barrel ahead with nothing more than Giger's rough preliminary sketches.

The TV special was a collection of sketches based on Aukrust's books, with no real story line.

Mácha also authored a collection of autobiographical sketches titled Pictures From My Life, the 1835 – 36 novel Cikáni ( Gypsies ), and several individual poems, as well as a journal in which, among other things, he detailed his sexual encounters with Šomková.

The Knights ' new name changes almost nightly, improvised by the actor playing the lead Knight ( originally Hank Azaria ), but always starting with " Ecky Ecky Ecky F ' tang F ' tang Olé Biscuitbarrel ..." which itself references several famous sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus, including Election Night Special.

Later in 1911, he journeyed to the Balkans and visited Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, filling sketchbooks with renderings of what he saw, including many famous sketches of the Parthenon, whose forms he would later praise in his work Vers une architecture ( 1923 ) (" Towards an Architecture ," but usually translated into English as " Towards a new Architecture ").