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"Roger takes his online product reviews VERY seriously!"

"O.K., O.K., people - we're not workshopping these, they're already set in stone."

'It's one of Larry King's earliest shows.'

'How many studio apartment construction projects did you say you'd worked on before?'

"It started with a simple case of peer-review."

"Heads up! It's another tidal wave of overwrought critical hyperbole!"

"I feel a great disturbance in The Force."

"Mom, please! I'm a married woman whose friends have been reviewed favourably by the New York Times."

'How about a toast to my breakthrough?!'

'What have you got for the man who knows everything?'

No, no, Grok, we love your creative voice! Ort is just here to do a little punch-up.

Musical genres

nstead of looking at fish bowl, a kid watches the fish on TV as they are being video taped.

'Horace spends his spare time being a rock critic.'

'I preferred her in the margarine commercial.'

"Do you cover hypochondria?"

The Music Critic.

"Boss, remember when you told me to start charging Sadie 'studio fees' for operating her radio show in the cafe?" "Well, I've got good news and bad news." "What's the good?" "She's agreed not to resort to violence." "I see. And the bad news?" "On today's 'Sadie Cohen Radio Show': Evil cafe owners who may or may not poison their customers."

'He's a parody of a tired genre.'

'How long do we have to get in compliance?'

Reviewing a Scientific Paper - Etiquette for References.

"How was the play!"

"Writing that book was a real strain."

"Very amusing, Robertson, if I were the type to be amused."

"You call that a suit?"

"Failure is definitely the best teacher, but I'm thinking auditing a class with Success might not hurt."

"What did I think about the play? About an hour too long!"

The Critic...

"You're late."

School of journalism and politics.

"I don't mind if something's Shakespearean, just as long as it it's not Shakespeare."

Four Types of Critics