The assembly elected Zafarullah Khan Jamali, a portly, genial character expected to prove a docile partner for the army.
The Falstaff print, a smaller copy of which also appears at the start of Brough's book, depicts the portly title character, perched on a seat wearing pseudo-chivalric garb and staring out at the viewer, his mouth pursed in what can only be described as a mischievous grin.
When he appeared, he was no longer the bad-boy sex symbol he was, but a portly-looking character in long blond dreadlocks and a succession of giant sports jerseys.
The video, directed by Mark Klasfeld and Danny Lockwood, opens with brief interviews with Perry, in character as a portly Jewish comedian, a fading Las Vegas sexpot, a crusty animal trainer, a scary clown (is there another kind?) and a clueless fairy princess before showing snippets of what appear to be genuinely pranked parties at which she appeared without revealing her real identity.
The parade of lonely, pathetic, sex-obsessed characters includes a portly freelance writer, a nymphomaniacal housewife and a bleached-blond scout for massage-parlor workers, all of whom touch one other in unexpected and usually icky ways.
Pratt, who was mostly known for playing supporting characters, notably the portly Andy Dwyer on the television series Parks and Recreation, initially turned down the role.
Other characters include the portly professor Ludwig Jones, an "Orsonwellian Falstaff about to burst the seams of his lizard-green tweed suit" and a man with a Macintosh computer, a play on one of "Ulysses' " most enduring mysteries — a character who shows up in various scenes and is identified only as "the man in the Macintosh".
I'll get you some pants!'" How, in other words, has the name of one of our greatest living writers been usurped by Zach Galifianakis, a portly comic from North Carolina who, playing a character called "Alan Garner", delivers the above lines to a nude Japanese hitman in The Hangover, Todd Phillips's 2009 comedy about a stag party in Las Vegas?
The company noted that there is a child character in the film — a portly 8-year-old who stows away on the septuagenarian's porch — and pointed to positive comments on blogs like Pixar Planet and Cinema Is Dope, which called the movie "entertainingly buoyant".
