Regarding the Weasel Parade News, the spokesman says Bonoma wrote the "spoof without anyone's knowledge or participation at CIBC," and that Bonoma read the "supposedly comical fictional presentation" at the closing dinner where the investment bankers and one large investor were present.
Biographer and academic Hermione Lee was one of Hill's champions for the Oxford professorship, and recalled them as stunning performances, with "stringent, compelling analysis of how [poetry] works, combined with a comical, anarchic, self-dramatising presentation of himself as part sage, part anarchist, part bard, part wit: a combination of King Lear and Lear's Fool".
In his lectures, he gave no quarter: he brought a rigorous dedication to the best use of language, a strong and passionate belief in what great poetry is, and a stringent, compelling analysis of how it works, combined with a comical, anarchic, self-dramatising presentation of himself as part sage, part anarchist, part bard, part wit – a combination of King Lear and Lear's Fool.
Wood strikes us today as a comical-looking little woman, but her presentation was always thought to be odd.
There was a section so common in big name CES tech presentations that it was almost comical.
Springsteen was aware of the comical contradiction: the multimillionaire who, in his theatrical self-presentation, is the voice of the dispossessed.
Many of the presenters found their presentations if not ruined, then at least rendered quasi-comical, by the fact that they could not get an internet connection.
