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...much of the night seemed to be Billy Joel on how cool Billy Joel is. He reveled in how incredible it is to know that 20,000 people will show up at a concert just to see him. Emitting a Frankenstein-esque laugh, he mentioned that when he plays the piano at home, he enjoys pondering the fact that people pay him good money for something he'd do for free...
This could be a tiresome jape. Making fun of show-biz effluvia has become the easiest, sleaziest way to get a laugh and feel superior. Even cut-rate exploitation movies can possess a delirious visionary gran-deur that makes any sarcasm directed their way seem small-minded. But the MST3K gang have gone far beyond Golden Turkey Awards. For this clever crowd, inept movies are mere cues to asides on politics and society, which they attack with scimitar wit. The show can even be seen as a branch of semiological (and semi-illogical) studies. "I've always been interested...
...inclined to say that the show does contain redeeming humor. In a variety of ways, it pokes fun at humor itself; most twenty something people are laughing at people who would laugh at them," he said. "Younger people, on the other hand...
...They're not selling," Thomas says "People look at them and laugh...
...point of caricature." Haitians who know Aristide are confounded by such descriptions. "There must be some kind of a cultural misunderstanding," says Guylene Viaud, who worked with Aristide's youth groups in Port-au-Prince. "To us he seems very open. He loves to joke and to make people laugh." Says a close friend: "When he feels secure, he opens up. When he's besieged, he shuts people...