“Brother Dave” Gardner, a stand-up comic from Tennessee, greeted the 1954 Supreme Court order to end segregated schools with the quip: “Let 'em go to school, beloved.

来自田纳西州的“栋笃笑” [3] “戴夫老兄”加德纳，曾对1954年联邦法院终止种族隔离式教育的判令插科打诨道：“亲爱的，让他们去上学吧。

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In one of his comedy bits he tells the story of being in law school and then quitting to become a comic.

在他的一部喜剧中，他讲述了一个在法学院的人最后放弃成为一个喜剧演员。

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Several elementary school children threw their red scarfs into the railed tomb, a gesture of respect for the dead, but the ubiquitous commercial air made the action a bit comic.

一些小学生们把他们的红领巾扔进烈士墓的围栏里，向死者致敬。可是周围无处不在的商业氛围让这动作显得有些滑稽。

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Previous work by Mr Nazir includes the design and production of School of the Damned, a comic book about a vampire infestation that opens with the evacuation of St Kilda in 1930.

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The 1965 "Beach Blanket Bingo, " for example, featured subplots involving a mermaid, a motorcycle gang and a skydiving school run by Don Rickles, and comic touches by silent film star Buster Keaton.

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Set in a suburban high school, Lilley introduced us to Mr G, a Broadway theatrical impresario trapped inside the body of a camp high school teacher - perhaps the funniest Australian comic creation since Norman Gunston, a hapless television reporter from Wollongong who rose to pre-eminence in the 1970s.

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