It's clear that the producer of these spoken-word pieces, recorded in the first flush of Cassius Clay's meteoric rise in 1963, regards the Louisville Lip more as comedy entertainer than serious pugilist.
But after about 10 minutes of warming up, Lutken becomes the real Woody, sad and happy, smiling and funny, serious and feeling, an entertainer for sure but never far from his message.
The Time 100, as they were called, had been divided into categories that brought to mind a game of Trivial — or, in some cases, Serious — Pursuit: "Artists & Entertainers," "Builders & Titans," "Leaders & Revolutionaries".
Dunham was both a popular entertainer and a serious artist intent on tracing the roots of black culture.
It may be that left-leaning journalists make a parallel error, then: They may enjoy Jon Stewart's program, but recognise him as an entertainer, not a serious political leader whose views represent any broader movement.
Christmas is the party season, and the agencies that book impersonators and other entertainers are doing serious business.
Jazz vocalists such as Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kurt Elling and Jamie Cullum can almost lead double lives – both serious musicians and all-round entertainers – if they choose their material carefully.
When international success came in the mid-1980s, Hoskins made not the least modification to his persona or perspective, maintaining the down-to-earth view: "Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones.
The artists involved therein are serious; they are not mere "entertainers" who should stay in their corners and not ruffle any feathers.
Might he be a glib entertainer and not a serious artist?
In 1960 Sarris began penning pieces for the Village Voice; his first review for that paper, of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), astonished readers with its appraisal of Hitchcock as a serious artist rather than a trivial entertainer.
