Word: humorizing
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...Because the race has been boring, has had no energy, enthusiasm, and hasn't excited anyone, it will be the first guy who pops up at the debate with some sense of passion or humor who will end up on top," Davis said...
...square peg into a round hole. The Theatricals simply wouldn't be the same if it were compelled to include women in its shows. The Theatricals derives its strength from its all-male cast, enrapturing audience with its own unique brand of humor. Much of the fun of its productions depends on gender-based jokes. It would be forced to transform into an entirely different kind of group, or else lose much of its famed hilarity if forced to change its tradition. For a precautionary example, we need only look to the fate of Princeton's Triangle Club, Princeton...
GOOD OLE COUNTRY HUMOR...
...about Steve Martin's first work of extended fiction, Shopgirl, is that it's not funny. At least not the laugh-out-loud-and-frighten-the-horses funny of Martin's early stand-up comedy, or of his performance as the man-woman in All of Me, or the humor pieces in his collection Pure Drivel. Shopgirl, which really is about a 28-year-old woman behind the glove counter at the Neiman Marcus department store in Beverly Hills, offers quieter pleasures: a delicate portrait of people inflicting subtle pain on others and themselves, and an appeal to the intelligent...
...John Cassavetes had directed Seinfeld, it might have looked like this. Acerbic Seinfeld co-creator Larry David plays himself in a largely improvised series that follows a familiar pattern: David does something insensitive, lands in hot water and so on until we reach a crescendo of comic discomfort. The humor is minutely observed, but the improv reminds you how much nonactor Jerry Seinfeld benefited from comic backup and tight scripts. At his best, though, David can still make you laugh till you squirm...