She appeared in every sketch, playing, among others, an inadvertently naughty muffin mogul and a loopy census interviewee.
Three in particular stood out, beginning with Mendelssohn, who took Joachim to play for Queen Victoria when he was 12. Then came the Schumanns, Robert and Clara, seen in Adolph Menzel's famous sketch playing with a slim and unbearded Joachim, age 23.
Last year, when Ansari hosted the MTV awards, he appeared in a sketch playing "swagga coach" to fellow standup Zach Galifianakis, who apparently believed that any brown person could up his cool cred.
WHEN Matteo Renzi became Italy's youngest prime minister in February, an old video turned up of him as a student in an amateur sketch playing the part of Silvio Berlusconi, the tycoon who has dominated Italian politics for 20 years.
In one classic 1964 sketch playing on Benny's cheapskate persona, Mr. Gordon and Mr. Goldman had two I.R.S. agents visit Benny carrying restaurant receipts and demanding to know how he had entertained four people at Chasen's, the Hollywood stars' hangout, for $3.90.
I found the app fairly useful for sketching plays, but the developers have made it hard to erase mistakes, so it will work best when you can draw plays carefully, not during a 20-second timeout.
The quantitative approach just sketched plays a fundamental role in coding theory (hence in cryptography) and in data storage and transmission techniques.
Other sketches played on the growing impact of the #MeToo movement.
Opening Oct. 2, this exhibition explores the central role oil sketches played in Rubens's creative process.
In one of the Saturday Night Live-style sketches playing on a loop this week on RT (Russia's international state channel), Zelenskiy riffs: "You want to go into politics?
