[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If it wasn't for used guns, I would hardly have any guns at all. It's funny though, some people avoid used guns like I do rattlesnakes. A friend recently related an incident he experienced at a little party. The host showed him a couple of handguns,...
THE MUSIC MAN Festival Theatre CHICHESTER **** The Chichester Festival Theatre has a winning way with Broadway musicals. This season, it's busy reclaiming shows that are seldom staged because they're so strongly associated with their original stars. In the Minerva Studio, Angus Jackson and Samantha Spiro have...
Days like these Andy Warhol writes in his diary: "I was invited to a surprise lunch party for Phyllis Diller's 65th birthday. When I walked in a lady with glasses said she still had my mother's book, and I was trying to think of which lady in...
The edgy, unexpected humor of comedian Chris Rock is now available at Hallmark Gold Crown stores across thecountry. The comedian is featured on a new line of cards turning up thefunny as he jokes in his own voice about age, finances, and therelationship between men and...
NEW YORK, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Christopher Titus' breakout hit one-man show, "Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding," will be available on double CD on Tuesday, July 22 on COMEDY CENTRAL Records. Chronicling Titus's remarkable rollercoaster life with tales of insanity, parental fist fighting and some really crazy stuff, the...
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Watch out. Fake U.S. currency has been circulating in Kansas. Retailers, such as Walgreens, do their best to make sure currency isn't counterfeit, but sometimes they get stuck with paper that isn't worth the ink printed...
By Michael Hooper THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Watch out. Fake U.S. currency has been circulating in Kansas. Retailers, such as Walgreens, do their best to make sure currency isn't counterfeit, but sometimes they get stuck with paper that isn't worth the ink printed...
MY LIFE IN MEDIA Danny Wallace, 31, is an author and comedian, a television presenter for BBC and Sky, a radio presenter for Xfm and a columnist for Shortlist magazine. He was writing reviews for video game magazines at 13 and became a BBC producer at 22,...
Surely the actuaries at Allstate miscalculated last week when they declared Philadelphians the most dangerous big-city drivers. You could check the numbers - we wreck every 6.6 years, they say, which is 50 percent higher than the national average. Or you could ask someone who knows better. For 14 years,...
IN his Jimmy Savile shellsuit and white wig outfit, Joey Barton looked the part at the Manchester City Christmas fancy-dress party. The disgraced footballer was his usual self, bragging about his salary and ribbing his teammates as he swaggered about with a huge cigar in his...
**** John Sutherland has had a substantial career as an academic writing about books. This touching, and in places extremely funny memoir, shows how his leap into literature was far from straightforward. After his father died in a wartime accident when Sutherland was four,...
IN his Jimmy Savile shellsuit and white wig outfit, Joey Barton looked the part at the Manchester City Christmas fancy-dress party. The disgraced footballer was his usual self, bragging about his salary and ribbing his teammates as he swaggered about with a huge cigar in his...
Teenagers weaned on the instant gratification of the internet do not understand the dangers that lurk in its virtual world Funny how we worry about ID cards, CCTV cameras and erosion of our privacy, and yet we spend hours logging on to the internet without a care....
Charlie Manuel ran through his postgame checklist, as always. J.A. Happ starting the game? Check. Shane Victorino ending the game? Check. In between, the Phillies manager spoke volumes about this extraordinary game and this exceptional season with an almost offhanded eight-word comment. "The bullpen," Manuel said, "did a heck of...
With globalization, our whole economic world has been turned upside down. It seems so has our ethnic humor. While one could say that making fun of another is not funny, nonetheless we seem to do a lot of it. And the targets of our not- so-humorous jokes...
Couscous (15) A leisurely paced but thoroughly engrossing masterclass in film naturalism, set around the dinner tables of an ordinary but completely fascinating extended French-Arabic family. A rich and fully flavoured treat. The Visitor (15) A wry and touching drama by...
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- So it's come to this. You can spend the better part of an hour with Al Franken and hardly laugh at all. Mr. Franken is, of course, one of the funnier men of our time, a "Saturday Night Live" veteran, and the author of...
BETHESDA, Md. AP -- Jeff Overton doesn't feel like a different player than the guy who could couldn't make it to the weekend on the PGA Tour over the last two months. Funny how seeing the ball go in the hole changes everything. Overton continued his one-week...
Pal Joey 1.55pm BBC2 ** (George Sidney, 1957) Frank Sinatra plays one of his repertoire of womanising heels, a nightclub singer caught between Rita Hayworth's wilful widowed socialite and Kim Novak's sweet chorus girl. Among the Rogers and Hart songs that get an airing are "The Lady...
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