It is protecting more of them, logging them a bit less riotously.
"Spasticus Autisticus", a riotously self-mocking song by the late Ian Dury, a rock-star seriously disabled by polio, was performed to cheers and laughter at the opening ceremony.
And at the same time as Mr Zuma's government is giving too much money to its allies, it is threatening to remove liberties from its critics.For all South Africa's faults, its press has at its best been riotously, exhilaratingly free.
It was the end of the wet season and the terrain was riotously green.
Edward Hall's touring all-male Propeller company excelled in a riotously Mexican The Comedy of Errors and a satanic knockabout Richard III. (Hall was making a big difference too as the artistic director of the Hampstead Theatre in London).
It was followed by the riotously funny I Was a Male War Bride (1949), set in the aftermath of World War II.
Kanin and Gordon provided Cukor with an especially engaging story for Adam's Rib (1949), which the director turned into a riotously funny battle of the sexes that many critics believe was the strongest Tracy-Hepburn collaboration.
An uneven but often riotously funny pseudo-documentary, it was cowritten by Mickey Rose and Allen, who starred as a hopelessly inept thief who apparently learned his trade from watching old Warner Brothers prison films.
Absurdities mounted in Endhiran (S. Shankar), a riotously unbuttoned mixture of science-fiction spectacle, songs, dance, and romance reportedly India's most expensive film.
Sharon Horgan "The funniest woman you've never heard of" and "late starter" are two tags that have followed the Irish comedian Sharon Horgan ever since the riotously and filthily funny 'Pulling' attracted just enough critical attention to ensure that it didn't become the most underrated sitcom of the Noughties.
"Usually, crowds were too few and too thin to inspire much feeling," reckoned Mass Observation, "and on VE Night most people were either at home, at small private parties, at indoor dances or in public houses, or collected in small groups around the bonfires, where there was sometimes singing and dancing, but by no means riotously".
