Statler and WaldorfStatler and Waldorf are a pair of Muppet characters from the sketch comedy television series The Muppet Show, best known for their overly negative opinions and their tendency to heckle people. The two elderly men first appeared in The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence in 1975, where they were portrayed as older men pondering the ends of their golden years.
Barack ObamaPresident of the United States from 2009 to 2017PersonalEarly life and careerFamilyHonorsPublic imagePublications Dreams from My FatherThe Audacity of HopeA Promised LandSummer playlistNon-profit organizations Obama FoundationOne America AppealSpeechesIllinois State Senator and U.S. Senator from IllinoisIllinois State Senate tenure2004 DNC keynote addressU.S. Senate tenure2004 electionsponsored bills44th President of the United StatesPresidencytimelineTransitionInaugurationsfirstsecondEfforts to impeachPresidential libraryTenureFirst 100 daysRecovery ActTripsinternationalRussia nuclear treatyNobel Peace PrizeAffordable Care ActDodd–FrankIraq withdrawalKilling of Osama bin Laden2011 debt-ceiling crisisLibya interventionAfghanistan withdrawalBenghazi attack2013 debt-ceiling crisisAnti-ISIL campaignIraqSyriaTan suit controversyIran nuclear dealCuban thawSanctions against RussiaSelma 50th anniversary speechParis AgreementPoliciesEconomicEnergyForeignArcticEuropeEast AsiaMiddle EastSouth AsiaObama DoctrinePardonsMarineNativeSocialSpaceAppointmentsCabinetJudiciarySotomayorKaganGarlandSupreme Court candidatesPresidential campaigns2008electionprimariesconventiondebatesObama coalition2012electionprimariesconventiondebatesBarack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American retired politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
VaudevilleA promotional poster for the Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles (1894), showing dancers, clowns, trapeze artists, costumed dogs, singers and costumed actorsVaudeville (; French:) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which became popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1870s until the early 1930s. In some ways analogous to music hall from Victorian United Kingdom, a typical North American vaudeville performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill.
Mitchell HepburnMitchell Frederick Hepburn (August 12, 1896 – January 5, 1953) was the 11th premier of Ontario, from 1934 to 1942. He was the youngest premier in Ontario history, becoming premier at age 37. He was the only Ontario Liberal Party leader in the 20th century to lead his party to two majorities. Early lifeBorn in St. Thomas, Ontario, Hepburn attended school in Elgin County and hoped to become a lawyer.Irving BensonIrving Benson (January 31, 1914 – May 19, 2016) was an American actor and comedian. He was one of the last survivors of the vaudeville era. Having enjoyed a long and successful run on the east coast American Burlesque circuit, Benson travelled west to play Las Vegas for the first time in 1957, with the Minsky Follies show. Benson gained national exposure during the 1960s, when fellow vaudevillian Milton Berle hired him to play a faux heckler named Sidney Spritzer.
The Muppet ShowThe Muppet Show is a varietysketch comedy family television series created by Jim Henson and starring the Muppets. It is presented as a variety show, featuring recurring sketches and musical numbers interspersed with ongoing plot-lines with running gags taking place backstage and in other areas of the venue. The Muppet Show is known for its uniquely designed characters, burlesque nature, slapstick, sometimes absurdist and surreal humour, and parodies.
Borscht BeltThe Borscht Belt, or Yiddish Alps, is a region of the U.S. state of New York that had summer resorts catering to American Jewish vacationers, especially residents of New York City. The resorts, most later defunct, were located in the southern foothills of the Catskill Mountains in parts of Sullivan and Ulster counties, bordering the northern edges of the New York metropolitan area.
Milton BerleMilton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger; Yiddish: מענדעל בערלינגער; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American actor and comedian. His career as an entertainer spanned over eight decades, first in silent films and on stage as a child actor, then in radio, movies and television.
YiddishYiddish, historically referred to as Judeo-German or Jewish German, is a West Germanic language and Jewish ethnolect historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated in the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German, fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic Hebrew) and to some extent Aramaic.
DundeeDundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland. The 2020 mid-year population estimate for the locality was 148,210. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea. Under the name of Dundee City, it forms one of the 32 council areas used for local government in Scotland.
Premier of OntarioThe premier of Ontario (French: premier ministre de l'Ontario) is the head of government of Ontario. Under the Westminster system, the premier governs with the confidence of a majority of the elected Legislative Assembly; as such, the premier typically sits as a member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) and leads the largest party or a coalition of parties.
FlaxFlax, also known as common flax or line, is a flowering plant, Linum usitatissimum, in the family Linaceae. It is cultivated as a food and fiber crop in regions of the world with temperate climates. Textiles made from flax are known in English as linen and are traditionally used for bed sheets, underclothes, and table linen. Its seeds are known as flaxseed or linseed and its oil is known as linseed oil.
HempAgricultural cannabis plantA hemp field in Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany, France, which is Europe's largest hemp producer as of 2022Drone video of a hemp themed maze in a hemp (kanep in Estonian) field in Kanepi parish, Estonia (August 2022)The term hemp is the vernacular English language word designating the plant Cannabis sativa, a plant that can be used to make a wide range of products, and be refined into a variety of commercial items, including paper, rope, textiles, clothing, biodegradable plastics, paint, insulation, biofuel, food, medicines, and animal feed.
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