Mr. Kashner's well-named memoir, "When I Was Cool," recounts an uproarious string of character-building geriatric-Beat episodes that left their mark upon him.
A master of wild, at times uproarious, plots and characters whose Eastern and Mitteleuropean accents he renders with perfect pitch, the author of "The Steinway Quintet" and "King of the Jews" has until now remained very much offstage.
She may have found her ideal creative role as the spitfire character on the uproarious, toxic and riveting VH1 reality show "Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta".
The memorable cheater anthem, "I'm Always True to you Darlin' in my Fashion," un-leashed uproarious laughter from the audience as the character Lois Lane (played by Joanna A. Jones) seduced and charmed her lover (played flawlessly by Terrance Spencer) again and again, as she continued to reappear in the never-ending show stopper...Talk about milking it!
He was political, but in the way that Aristophanes was political – rude, lewd, uproarious, anarchic; he plugged himself and his characters into other worlds, other dimensions, the Neptunian, the lunar, the chthonic, the galactic, all in a riotous carnival spirit, knockabout, grotesque, strutting their stuff in a kind of metaphysical music hall.
Davies stated in an interview with SFX that he "loved" the uproarious reaction to Jack's actions, defending the character in saying "He saved every single child in the world!
When Tom Sloane, the head of BBC light entertainment, offered the writers their own series based on the characters, Steptoe and Son was the result, wringing uproarious comedy from the plight of the elderly Albert Steptoe, played by Wilfrid Brambell, and his would-be upwardly mobile son, Harold Harry H Corbetttryingying to earn a living out of collecting and selling junk.
There's a gay character and a character married to that south Asian guy: uproarious gags about their mixed-race kid called Tanner.
When the Van Dyke show ended its run, Rose Marie slipped right out of character to a new prominence in her own distinctive and uproarious voice on the game show "The Hollywood Squares," where the loose and improvisational format let her riff freely and kept her prominent there for fifteen seasons.
Caspar Milquetoast would understand Wilbur Todd.Charles Ruggles, whose routine comedy method is so uproarious that it is in danger of obscuring his other talents, produces an authentic and believable character in the principal rôle, playing down his scenes with admirable restraint.
Drink at Work.com said of her work: 'Carr has a soft and particular touch that makes each character realistic, sympathetic and noble, inhabiting them in a way that is by turns uproarious, embarrassing, sexy and sweet.' Ann currently spends most of her time writing shows, auditioning to shill for corporate America, and thinking up various ways to engage her cat in kitty aerobics.
