Bailey, deft and playful, chooses to be his own antic, a droll and often hostile jester.
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Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
The echoes are both poignant and droll: This is village culture, gabbing and drinking culture, with a genetic affinity for the absurd and a veneer of wry resignation atop a volcanic bedrock of existential turmoil.
When it was all said and done and Yorkie gave one final wag of her tail, she was revealed to be Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, singer, and actress Erika Jayne.
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Lauren Huff,
EW.com,
10 Apr. 2025
The direction of the wag matters, too—research suggests that dogs tend to wag more to the right when feeling positive and to the left when experiencing negative emotions.
In real time, the audience, the queens watching, and perhaps Suzie herself all learn that Suzie has a knack for sexiness onstage, even though she’s dressed as a clown.
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Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
12 Apr. 2025
Among the mass-shooting victims is a bloodied clown who was performing at the festival.
Once infused with the diabolical spirit, the guide is transformed into a buffoon, complete with a harlequin outfit—a mad joker and a dancing fool who does a little jig to the sound of a jazz trio.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2025
Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a buffoon on ketamine tasked with purging the civil service.
Trump sued Maher in 2013 for $5 million after the comedian made a crass joke about his mother and an orangutan.
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Steff Danielle Thomas,
The Hill,
19 Apr. 2025
On Friday’s episode of Real Time, the comedian took a swipe at the Disney live-action adaptation after Lebanon banned the movie over Israeli star Gal Gadot, who is on the country’s boycott list.
Learn more about management options and which food plants are most susceptible to this insect in our harlequin bug on vegetables web page.
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Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Apr. 2025
Once infused with the diabolical spirit, the guide is transformed into a buffoon, complete with a harlequin outfit—a mad joker and a dancing fool who does a little jig to the sound of a jazz trio.
But, of course, seeing one of our best musical comediennes so deliciously live out the maxim that all is vanity is especially a treat for Hilty heads who’ve longed to see her in a Broadway production that lives up to the title of her former TV series.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
19 Apr. 2025
On the last day of the season, when the apprentices had been winnowed from 16 to two, then-emcee Donald Trump fired Annie on national television in favor of the comedienne Joan Rivers.
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Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2025
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