The various episodes of the show are performed in the spirit of outrageous comedy — often provoking shocked laughter — and are dominated by the anarchic clowning of Mr. Punch.

Robin Williams was mainly known for his anarchic standup comedy and his popular TV role as the wisecracking alien in Mork & Mindy ; in this film he played an inspirational teacher in a dramatic story about conformity and rebellion at an exclusive New England prep school in the 1950s.

Duck Soup is a 1933 Marx Brothers anarchic comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin, and directed by Leo McCarey.

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

It scored a failure however with the 1987 comedy Hardwicke House, about an anarchic comprehensive school.

If Tony Allen, nicknamed by comics and critics as ' The Godfather of Alternative Comedy ' " was the theory of anarchic comedy " wrote comic Arthur Smith, " then Malcolm Hardee was its cock-eyed embodiment ".

Doug Anthony's name was used by the anarchic Canberra comedy trio the Doug Anthony All Stars, who rose to fame with celebrated appearances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the 1980s and came to national prominence in Australia in 1990 with their popular performances on the TV comedy series The Big Gig.

Onscreen from 1971 in various bit parts, Dewaere made the breakthrough with his first major role in Bertrand Blier's anarchic comedy Les Valseuses ( 1974 ) where he and Depardieu starred as two young delinquents.

The consensus was that " Better Off Dead is an anarchic mix of black humor and surreal comedy, anchored by John Cusack's winsome, charming performance.

As with the first film, Gremlins 2 is a live action horror comedy film ; however, Dante put effort into taking the sequel in new anarchic directions.

Surreal humour maintains a healthy presence on TV in Britain, spearheaded by the absurdly anarchic deconstructions of light entertainment traditions central to the comedy of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, Ted Chippington and Harry Hill.

Let The Blood Run Free was an anarchic Australian spoof soap opera set in St Christopher's Hospital and created by comedy collective, The Blood Group.

The Dangerous Brothers was a stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, performing respectively as " Richard Dangerous " and " Sir ( or occasionally Lady ) Adrian Dangerous ".

Dante explained the animation at the beginning of the film was meant to " set the anarchic tone.

Hal Hinson of The Washington Post caught on to how the Looney Tunes animation is meant to imply " anarchic wit ," but nevertheless felt both the cartoon short and the film itself are failures.

Janet Maslin of the New York Times, in a largely positive review, described the film as " an anarchic, often hilarious adventure in dial-spinning, a collection of brief skits and wacko parodies that are sometimes quite clever, though they're just as often happily sophomoric, too.

By mid-1977 in downtown New York, punk rock was already ceding its cutting-edge status to the anarchic sound of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and Mars, spearheads of what became known as No Wave, although several original punk bands continued to perform and new ones emerged on the scene.

Thus, instead of an anarchic international system, there are plenty of opportunities for cooperation and broader notions of power, such as cultural capital ( for example, the influence of films leading to the popularity of the country's culture and creating a market for its exports worldwide ).

Difficulties in adapting to the harsh discipline of the college's noble débris ( distinguished relics, i. e., teachers ) gradually developed those characteristics of anarchic disdain and sarcasm which were to give much of his verse its distinctive voice.

However, in the Victorian harlequinade, Clown became more important, embodying its anarchic fun.

In July 1912 Asquith travelled to Dublin ( the first Prime Minister to do so in over a century ) to make a speech, ridiculing Unionist demands for a referendum on the issue via an election and calling their campaign " purely destructive in its objects, anarchic and chaotic in its methods ".

Boyd attributed the popularity of the show to the ability of its anarchic nature to strike a chord with people on a Sunday night, and elaborated on this theory many times, proposing that Sunday evenings induced a widespread and overwhelming mood of either resignation or defiance, and that the programme provided an outlet to those who felt trapped by the prospect of work the following morning.

“ Therefore, the committee desires to express to the public as its firm belief that both the public and the employees aforesaid have equitable rights and interests in the said mill which cannot be modified or diverted without due process of law ; that the employees have the right to continuous employment in the said mill during efficiency and good behavior without regard to religious, political or economic opinions or associations ; that it is against public policy and subversive of the fundamental principles of American liberty that a whole community of workers should be denied employment or suffer any other social detriment on account of membership in a church, a political party or a trade union ; that it is our duty as American citizens to resist by every legal and ordinary means the unconstitutional, anarchic and revolutionary policy of the Carnegie Company, which seems to evince a contempt public and private interests and a disdain the public conscience.

Alien hand syndrome ( sometimes used synonymously with anarchic hand ) is a neurological disorder in which the afflicted person's hand appears to take on a mind of its own.

For a period during the 1970s the Institute was known for its often anarchic programme and administration.

The Audiencia decided that the situation had become so anarchic both in Upper Peru and in the Peninsula, that Upper Peru needed to take the government into its own hands.

Two of the station's producers, Guy Hornsby ( Tony Blackburn ) and Mike Gray ( Robbie Vincent Telephone Programme ), went on to create the ground-breaking commercial dance stations Kiss 102 and Kiss 105, which recaptured the somewhat anarchic spirit of BBC Radio London in its mid-1980s heyday to great audience and commercial success.

His work, characteristically executed with bright watercolour paint and pen and ink, is recognisable by an anarchic yet detailed style and for its " wild characterisation ".

His anarchic yet detailed work, executed with bright watercolour paint and pen and ink, is distinguished by its " wild characterisation ".

In the anarchic conditions of Henry II's predecessor, Stephen, the church had extended its jurisdiction in the void.

According to Robert Jervis, since the world is anarchic, a state might for defensive purposes build its military capability.

Ideologically, their violent, anti-intellectual, and ultra-populist views centered chiefly on what historian Simon Schama describes as " an anarchic notion of popular government, always armed to impose the will of the people on its mandatories ," and took the form of support for " unrelenting surveillance, denunciation, indictment, humiliation, and death.

The single was banned from BBC Radio 1's playlist because of its perceived anarchic lyrics, stalling at number 35 in the UK Singles Chart.

The label also created the global alternative world music scene and gave the world music scene a " new look " with its anarchic and all encompassing attitude " There is no boarder controls at Nation ".

Wallace visits two very different ' utopian ' communities, the planned town of Celebration which maintains its pleasantness through strict rules and regulations, and the anarchic self governing neighbourhood of Christiania.

Reflecting their satiric and humorous intent, the two editors took for their name and masthead the anarchic glove puppet, Mr. Punch.

Reflecting their satiric and humorous intent, the two editors took for their name and masthead the anarchic glove puppet, Mr. Punch, of Punch and Judy ; the name also referred to a joke made early on about one of the magazine's first editors, Lemon, that " punch is nothing without lemon ".

An of-shoot label by the name of Flo records-also produced some anarchic electronic hi powered sounds.

The anarchic ordering principle of the international structure is decentralized, having no formal central authority, and is composed of formally equal sovereign states.

Neorealists conclude that because war is an effect of the anarchic structure of the international system, it is likely to continue in the future.

The hierarchic nature of the Feed and an alternative, anarchic developing technology, known as the Seed, mirror the cultural conflict between East and West that is depicted in the book.

The majority of the area of the " northern civilized cities ", as the Vosk river region in the temperate north of the continent is referred to, is reminiscent of ancient Greco-Roman city-states in many respects ( aside from the delta city of Port Kar, which is a more anarchic and piratical version of Venice ).

It assumes that cooperation is possible in the anarchic system of states, indeed, regimes are by definition, instances of international cooperation.

Marston positioned that there is a male notion of freedom that is inherently anarchic and violent and an opposing female notion based on " Love Allure " that leads to an ideal state of submission to loving authority.

Zamyatin's superior social insight, although presented and presumably gained artistically and not by way of scientific analysis, consists first in his firm rejection of the rationality or finality of history and, second, in his recognition that anarchic protest against those in power, not the capture of power, is at the core of freedom.

Depending on who is using the term, hacktivism can be a politically constructive form of anarchic civil disobedience or an undefined anti-systemic gesture ; it can signal anticapitalist or political protest ; it can denote anti-spam activists, security experts, or open source advocates.

One possible way to interpret this theory, is the idea that in order to maintain global stability and security and solve the problem of the anarchic world system in International Relations, no overarching, global, sovereign authority is created.

But to be outside of a political community is to be in an anarchic condition.

Because she is superficial, she doesn't serve a purpose ', and I said: ' How wonderfully anarchic, I still want it '", Willcox remembered.

It is based on the traditional sequence of the consuls of the Roman Republic, eked out, where that did not fit, by inserting dictatorial and anarchic years.

The unlikely pair become friends, and Brian is witness to Sally's anarchic, bohemian life in the last days of the German Weimar Republic.