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...jokes. At a rehearsal for an upcoming episode, Andrea Martin as Aunt Voula walks in on Nia and her husband kissing in the kitchen and says, "Oh, I'm sorry. You're having sex. I'll come back in four minutes." Another scene, which disses Voula's baklava, has Nia calling it "mocklava." Solid jokes, but jokes nonetheless...
What Vardalos probably means by "no jokes" is none of the insult comedy that sitcoms often fall back on. Making fun of someone's baklava may be cruel inside the Greek community, but it's not one of the cutting, hate-tinged riffs so many sitcom characters display. "The challenge is being funny without being cheap," she says. "We all genuinely like each other and don't want to be funny at each other's expense." It's difficult not to rely on sitcom conventions when CBS pushed the premiere date forward a few weeks to get the show...
...Sabra's baklava kept me going at lunch. The two brothers there may have drooled over my exotic friends, but we had an understanding about the flaky, honey-soaked pastry. We'd bounce back the words. "One piece of baklava," I'd say, hiding my "w" behind a "v." I knew this was how it was pronounced, but I didn't want to sound presumptuous. "One baklawa, coming right up," the younger brother would repeat. I followed again, with a new intonation, "BAKlawa...
Instead, students watched the Juggling Club in action, tasted the baklava offered by the Hellenic Society, and visited the booths of the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard Entrepreneurs Club...
Adams HouseAdams opens doors, greets first-years with cigars and roses--and no gong. These kids won the housing lottery. Saharan Nights We enjoyed the baklava, but since when has Greece been in the Sahara? What's next--baguettes on Greek night? Spring Break Long overdue respite from stress and exhaustion. Too bad everyone else in the world has two weeks. Pre-Spring Break Sections A no-win situation; skip class, or go and endure an hour of the sounds of silence. MTV Spring Break Thanks for allowing us to live vicariously through state school students. The editorial board