Its business manager, William Randolph Hearst, hired Thayer as humor columnist for the San Francisco Examiner 1886 – 88.

Its humor was seen to have crossed the line from risqué into the out-and-out dirty and many stations pushed it into late-night slots.

Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, or the search for meaning in life.

Its campy comedy notwithstanding, the stories were usually effective little chillers, mixing horror and humor in equal doses.

Its art deco sets, dark humor and performance by Price have made the film and its sequel Dr. Phibes Rises Again cult classics.

Its ballets combined the drama and humor, with an emphasis on inventive scenes.

Its humor ranges from the remark that, when the Nile floods receded, the land, as far as the eye can see, is " covered by Egyptologists ", to the detailed dissection, quotation, and parody, in the chapter on Alexander the Great, of the picture of Alexander as an idealist for world peace.

Its descriptive passages have verity and charm, it has the saving grace of humor, its multitude of personages, as we have said, all have the semblance of life.

Its inhibition leads to the lowering of aqueous humor production and causes a subsequent drop in the intraocular pressure.

Its main characteristics are: a bitter sense of humor, mainly with reference to erotism ( being even sexually explicit at times ) and social concerns ; its lyrics are composed as groupings of ten-line strophes, each line made up of eight syllables ; musically, all valonas are sung ( in fact, almost recited ) to just a single tune, with an instrumental refrain after each strophe, which can vary.

Its live episode continued with this type of humor, referencing ( in its show within a show, The Girlie Show ) a common flaw of live televised events, " breaking ", when actors will laugh unintentionally while they are onscreen.

Its renowned sense of humor produced the Crawdoodah Gazette, The Whole Earth Conspiracy Catalogue and " The Assassination Please Almanac ".

Its reptilian pilot, who only identifies himself as " Tosk ", requires virtually no " downtime " as he calls sleep and leisure, does not seem to possess a sense of humor, and he has the ability to become invisible.

Its topics consisted of everything a coffeehouse audience would be interested in: politics, religion and morality, fashion, and humor.

Its many editors covered all aspects of fanac — criticism, humor, history and commentary.

Its epic fantasy-adventure context, along with its black-and-white art style, quirky humor, twinge of satire, and anachronistic elements, have earned it comparisons to Jeff Smith's acclaimed Bone series.

Its preface poured scorn on Jodelle's predecessors in comedy, but in reality his own methods are not so very different from theirs.

Its anarchic, offbeat humour helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers.

Its programming began with a wide scope of comedy, music, public affairs, and news programming:

Its most famous old boy is Stan Laurel, one half of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.

Currier and Ives was the most prolific and successful company of lithographers in the U. S. Its lithographs represented every phase of American life, and included the themes of hunting, fishing, whaling, city life, rural scenes, historical scenes, clipper ships, yachts, steamships, the Mississippi River, Hudson River scenes, railroads, politics, comedy, gold mining, winter scenes, commentary on life, portraits, and still lifes.

Its first commission was Chelmsford 123, a situation comedy for Channel 4.

Its bawdiness serves not only to introduce the Reeve's tale, but the general sequence of low comedy which terminates in the unfinished Cook's tale.

Its founder, Jean-Paul Pune ( on the Disc, the inventor of the play on words that bears his name ) understood that the heart of all comedy is pain, specifically others ' pain.

Its only notable releases from 1980 onward were the Robin Williams debut comedy LP Reality, What A Concept!

Its popularity surged greatly in Hong Kong because it is used as a background music in the comedy, To Catch the Uncatchable, made by TVB.

Its most successful acts were Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Julian Lennon and the Monty Python comedy team.

Its programs are produced locally, and features competitions, comedy, requests and national news which airs on the hour from 7 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday.

Its successor Club Buggery, broke these limitations by creating an innovative blend of format elements including variety, talk and sketch comedy.

Its smart and surreal style fostered a new take on Canadian radio comedy that was followed by the likes of successor shows as The Norm and Radio Free Vestibule.

Its programming includes some of the classic Canadian comedy series noted above, repeats of several hit American and British series such as The Simpsons, South Park and Absolutely Fabulous, and original series such as Kevin Spencer, Odd Job Jack, The Devil's Advocates, Improv Heaven and Hell and Puppets Who Kill.

Its reputation was for revue and musical comedy, among them The Five O ' Clock Girl and also Mr. Cinders, both in 1929, Ivor Novello's Perchance to Dream in 1945 with Margaret Rutherford, and the revue High Spirits in 1953 with Cyril Ritchard and Diana Churchill.

Its title is a reference to the 1993 comedy, Hot Shots!

Its renewed appreciation can be credited in part to its appearances in a string of successful films starting with the 1997 comedy The Full Monty, and in a 1989 acne lotion commercial ( featuring a young Patsy Palmer ).

Its narrative is stream of consciousness filled with both comedy and drama.

Its blend of action, comedy, music and drama has made it wildly successful and it has since achieved the status of a cult film in Soviet and Russian culture.

Its performances blend elements of street performance, classic circus, dance, and comedy.

Its popularity was also the subject of a comedy sketch on BBC show Big Train.

Its programming genres cover from epic to idol, action, costume, comedy and romance.

Its initial expenses will be paid from appropriations currently available for our foreign aid program.

Its primary symbols are only 4: the directed arrow showing program flow, the rectangle ( SEQUENCE, GOTO ), the diamond ( IF-THEN-ELSE ), and the dot ( OR-tie ).

Varadkar in particular has been a strong proponent of small, indigenous business, advocating that smaller firms should benefit from the government's recapitalisation program Its former finance spokesman Richard Bruton's proposals have been seen as approaching problems from a pro-enterprise point of view.

Its 21 years in TV syndication ( 1971 – 1992 ) was the record for a U. S. program, until Soul Train surpassed it in 1993.

Its program in the sciences is likewise unusual – Reed's TRIGA research reactor makes it the only school in the United States to have a nuclear reactor operated entirely by undergraduates.

Its Masters in Management program is ranked no.

In an interview on the NPR program All Things Considered, Sokal said he was inspired to submit the hoax article after reading Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science ( 1994 ), by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt.

Its purpose is to provide a platform-independent programming environment that abstracts away details of the underlying hardware or operating system, and allows a program to execute in the same way on any platform.

Its aim was to publish and publicize the work of what was, by then, a growing number of students and collaborators ( this is also the name used to refer to the group of students who developed his sociological program ).

Its global youth program, Roots & Shoots began in 1991 when a group of 16 local teenagers met with Goodall on her back porch in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

" Its complaint states that customers would pay a registration fee to join a program that called itself an " internet mall " and purchase a package of goods and services such as internet mail, and that the company offered " significant commissions " to consumers who purchased and resold the package.

Its hockey program competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.

Its lack of widespread popularity outside Eastern Europe has led to calls for its removal from the Olympic Games in recent years ; however, following a vote by the IOC on July 8, 2005, it has remained in the Olympic program at least through 2012.

Its responsibilities include the nation's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy conservation, energy-related research, radioactive waste disposal, and domestic energy production.

Its well-funded, well-organized campus, and extensive program of fellowships, were soon replicated by early 20th century artist colonies and their wealthy benefactors.

Its program sought to be a model of participatory democracy for the children it served.

Its program advocates an independent Belarus, which does not rule out membership in the CIS, and a market economy with state regulation of certain sectors.

Its first program was Celebration, a concert special featuring Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd and ABBA.

Its links to Fujimori were new and were ruptured to a large extent when Fujimori opted for an orthodox economic shock program.

Its weight on impact was 644 lb ( 292 kg ), and speed was about 6000 miles an hour ( 2. 6 km / s = 5840 mph ), slightly over lunar escape velocity ( 2. 4 km / s ) and similar to the impact velocities of the Ranger program spacecraft.

Its merit badge program focuses on water related badges, as well as technology related ones ( computers, photography, etc.

Its USP Verified Mark seal indicates that the product has been tested for integrity, purity, dissolution, and safe manufacturing, and it is the only certification program that conducts random off-the-shelf testing.

Its divisions also have a vigorous preventive maintenance program to make sure its facilities are in good working order.

Its full name is a parody of This Hour Has Seven Days, a CBC newsmagazine from the 1960s ; the " 22 Minutes " refers to the fact that a half-hour television program in Canada and the U. S. is typically 22 minutes long with eight minutes of commercials.

Its main feature is the lack of conventional operators and data types — the only kind of data in the program are one-parameter functions.