There is a bizarre, baseless belief that "politics" is an action we undertake solely when we've lost our national wits and devolved into tribal, selfish beings.
But he was Belgium's player of the year in 2007-08, and it is heartening to see the impact he has had on the national side recently – wit, evidently, still has its place.
Dubbed a national treasure of wit by one critic, in the New Yorker he was once called the natural successor to SJ Perelman - high and unusual praise for a man who had once been criticised as a mere imitator of that magazine's great comic writer.
DANNY DYER!" A national treasure whose wit and wisdom has now become stamped onto our collective psyches like the iron emblem of a decent lager tap, Danny Dyer's appearance in Grand Theft Auto remains one of the funniest and most surprising things I've ever seen.
Clarke had accepted a position in Germany, but Thabo Mbeki, then South Africa's Deputy President, was calling him a national hero, and Wits moved to keep him at Sterkfontein.
Through their re-printing of her lunchtime remarks and short verses, particularly in Adams' column "The Conning Tower", Dorothy began developing a national reputation as a wit.
Filled with her signature wit, this National Book Award Winner showcases the full range of Chast's talent as a cartoonist and storyteller. .
No, it will be Ben McAdoo v Doug Pederson in a battle of wits on national TV and we'll watch it and whatever other mediocriparity the NFL puts on our holiday plates.
You sure didn't need a psychologist to tell you not to have a martini before testing your wits on national television, and the only thing competing for your attention this moment is George Washington's election.
The gross national product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country.
