Licensed To Ill revels in their clever-dumb antics, without ignoring the hip-hop culture that shaped them.
Again, no one is in a better position than black men to understand how black children are seen as older and more menacing than their white peers; how a white person's dumb college antics can be a black person's death sentence; and how black adults, oddly, are often treated as irresponsible children.
It's something of a paradox that MTV, which has caught so much flak for the raciness of many of its videos and the dangerous dumb-stunt antics of "Jackass," now finds itself the purveyor of highbrow culture, offering the Britney Spears set a taste of Saturday afternoons at the Met.
New York Times critic Frank Rich praised Brynner but was ambivalent about the production, which he called "sluggish", writing that Brynner's "high points included his fond, paternalistic joshing with his brood in 'The March of the Siamese Children,' his dumb-show antics while attempting to force the English schoolteacher Anna to bow, and, of course, the death scene..
Lysefjord in southwest Norway might not have the official cachet that inclusion on UNESCO's World Heritage List bestows on Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord, further north, but it is the proud owner of some of the most iconic images and daredevil feats - or dumb-arse antics, depending on your persuasion - that this praeternaturally endowed country affords.
But then, nearly all of Jiminy's guests are eventually struck dumb by the antics of their host.
It would be unkind to compare the duo's actions to the antics of Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, the stars of new film 'Dumb and Dumber To' who were at Emirates Stadium to watch the game.
Southie residents were struck dumb at the prospect of their neighbourhood being flooded with drunken Patriots fans, whose antics would make a Vizigoth blush.
Given that the film could just as well be called "Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest," it also brings its directors, Peter and Bobby Farrelly, full circle, back to the vaudeville anarchy and blunt slapstick antics of their expulsive debut.
