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Posted by Jai Narayan on August 14, 2004, at 11:36:45
I see humor as totally an art form.
My most favorite stand up comic is Eddie Izzard. He's British and dresses in womens clothes. He did a piece called "Dressed To Kill" that had me laughing till...well you know what can happen.
Next is Ellen DeGenres with her gentle humor full of love and fun.
Next is Jim Carry...at his finest he is so amazing.
Your turn, who tickles your funny bone?
Posted by Atticus on August 14, 2004, at 13:57:50
In reply to stand up comic artists, posted by Jai Narayan on August 14, 2004, at 11:36:45
Most of the stand-up comics whose work I really find funny were before my time, but I've seen their routines on video. They tend to have been a bit edgy, like Lenny Bruce (who did a hilarious bit called "Thank You, Mask Man"), George Carlin and Richard Pryor's respective work in the '70s. I love Monty Python, and still think Python alumnus John Cleese is one of the funniest people alive. I really like Bill Murray when he underplays a role, as in the movies "Rushmore" and "Lost in Translation". Silent film star Buster Keaton is also one of my favorites; I think his movie "The General" is just a masterpiece. Woody Allen's earlier work, like "Sleeper" and his greatest film, "Annie Hall", just never get old, although there may be some bias there since I'm a fellow neurotic Manhattanite. I guess often it's the tone of a piece rather than an individual performance that grabs me. "Dr. Strangelove" with all its dark, biting, Cold War humor, and gem of a triple performance by Peter Sellars (playing three different characters) may be the funniest movie to me. I love writer/director Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" for many of the same textural reasons. I guess I'm drawn especially to satires about some of life's darkest topics, such as "Wag the Dog". On the other hand, the body of work of certain auteurs draws me as well --doesn't matter who's in a particular piece. So the writing, direction, and ensemble performances in "Raising Arizona", which is primarily the vision of the Coen brothers, is a top pick as well. :) Atticus of Atlantis, of the clan Odubhda
Posted by Jai Narayan on August 14, 2004, at 17:42:20
In reply to Re: stand up comic artists » Jai Narayan, posted by Atticus on August 14, 2004, at 13:57:50
I love all of those. You taste is my taste....for so many reasons. Yes.
What about the Meg Ryan /Billy Crystal " When Harry met Sally"?Jai Narayan from the Noble Chieftain Family of Galway
Posted by Atticus on August 15, 2004, at 6:05:26
In reply to yes, yes, yes...pound the table....yes, posted by Jai Narayan on August 14, 2004, at 17:42:20
Wow, talk about irony. I love "When Harry Met Sally", but it's a bittersweet love. Alyssa and went to see that movie on our first date in college, and she bought me the Harry Connick, Jr. soundtrack for the subsequent Valentine's Day. We held hands, tentatively at first, then confidently, for the first time during that movie. And we kissed for the first time after I'd walked her back to her dorm after seeing the movie, while we were still under its spell. We used to take out the CD every Valentine's Day or anniversary after that and slow-dance to it. So "When Harry Met Sally" is simultaneously associated with the happiest days of my life and, now, the pain of losing Alyssa. Life is strange, eh? Ta. Atticus of Atlantis, of the Ui Fiachrach Muaidhe branch of the clan Odubdha ("Odubhda," medieval Gaelic, translates as "Dark Chieftan" or "Black Prince," both for our hair color -- we're black Irish -- and the nature of our deeds as invested princes under King Niall's brother, Fiachra. We were described by the 17th-century Irish poet O'Heerin as "The music-loving hosts of fierce engagements." Our primary duty: defend the Moy estuary in County Mayo against Viking marauders. Those must've been some hellacious fights.)
Posted by Jai Narayan on August 15, 2004, at 8:07:06
In reply to Re: yes, yes, yes...pound the table....yes » Jai Narayan, posted by Atticus on August 15, 2004, at 6:05:26
Are you beginning to think we may be related?
I am.
Well don't that beat all. I guess we know each other on deeper plane. How've you been my dear friend? Sounds like you are mastering this beast. I am left handed and my mother was forced to write with her right hand but she was left handed dominant. My whole family are artists.
ps where did you get all the information about your family? It's facinating.Jai Narayan one family of the red heads with the site and mental challenges. My mothers family of origin of place was County Mayo my father's family originated from County Galway.The combination of the families puts us under King Niall, his brother Fiacha and Brian King of Connacht in the 4th Century A.D. Moving further down the chain we've got Dathi son of king Fiacha. Dathi reigned as Monarch of Ireland AD 406 to AD 428. He was Ireland's last pagan monarch.
Posted by Atticus on August 15, 2004, at 14:37:18
In reply to Irish Art of place, posted by Jai Narayan on August 15, 2004, at 8:07:06
I have to admit, the thought that our bloodlines may have crossed in the distant past did spring up when you mentioned County Mayo, since that's where the invested princes of the clan Odubhda were stationed to intercept Vikings coming up the Moy estuary to rape, pillage, take on supplies for journeys to Greenland, and generally behave in a very Viking-like way. I was able to track a lot of this down because one of Pez's friends was a doctoral student in English, and was able to track down the Gaelic origins of the Anglicized version of the family name, which put my clan (or sith, as they were called back then) in a specific time and location. The nickname for the branch of the Odubhda from which I'm descended was "Kings of the Moy" because they were pretty successful at intercepting the Viking incursions. They even captured some Viking warships, which were the finest and fastest on the sea in that part of the world at the time, reverse-engineered them and built their own variation, and then set out on search-and-destroy missions looking for Vikings off the northwest coast. When the English invaded, the Odubhda were forced south, and eventually ended up as sodbusters in Limerick, eking out a living farming primarily potatoes like most everyone else. Without a "High" King (Niall's son, the last, died in a battle), who is defined as someone who ruled over the entire island from top to bottom, the various clans really didn't do a very good job of mustering a cohesive counteroffensive -- too much internal jockeying for power, even though, as you note, there still was a king, Fiachra's kid. The Celtic knot tatooed on the inside of my right wrist is, among many other things, a symbol of resistance to English rule in Ireland. (It's such an old pagan symbol that one layer of meaning after another has been added to it.) I got it during my punker days as a symbol of ethnic pride and of resistance to any and all authority that I viewed as unjust. As the dialogue between Marlon Brando's character Johnny in "The Wild One" and another character goes:
"So Johnny, what're you rebelling against?"
Brando: "Whattaya got?"
Hope you're doing well today, fellow Altantean. I feel pretty good myself. :) Atticus
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