Word: comical
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Bowman, 26, a rising star on the Irish stand-up scene, has been setting off comic explosions for 18 months now with Jesus: The Guantánamo Years. In the one-man routine, Bowman is Jesus, who, at the behest of his aging dad, returns to earth for a comeback tour. Since he's a bearded Palestinian willing to die as a martyr, the messiah is stopped at U.S. Immigration and shipped off to Guantánamo Bay. He finds himself trapped on an island that's become a maximum-security prison, designed by the people who brought the world...
...profoundly Christian message." "A lot of Christians are so resentful that Bush is hijacking the language of Jesus to do these awful things," he says. "I'm fairly sure that telling jokes about God isn't as blasphemous as torturing his children." For an age-of-terror comic like Bowman, the best jokes make for nervous laughter...
...Films that perform well when times are bleak are pretty similar to films that perform well when weather is hot - comic book movies, animated films, sequels, "movies kids drag their parents to," says Dergarabedian. That's good news for summer movies like the Wachowskis' Speed Racer, Jack Black's Kung Fu Panda, and the latest Chronicles of Narnia installment, Prince Caspian, and less auspicious for the Dakota Fanning Southern Gothic sex-abuse movie, Hounddog...
...Mabel is more than the comic relief in these plays. She's the moral arbiter, the fearless truth teller, the preacher of racial pride. In Diary, her well-bred daughter is about to confront the hussy who stole her man. Madea butts in, "No, you're gonna deal with her like a white woman. I'm gonna deal with her like a black woman...
...dealing it to fellow blacks, and if enough of them didn't love it, he couldn't have afforded the lavish new house he built in suburban Atlanta. You could also ask if Perry is mocking the folks he hopes to uplift. But his form of comic melodrama depends on creating emotional extremes, acute cartoons of recognizable behavior, people who hurt and get hurt. Public humiliation is the penance his stage characters must endure before they are absolved in a final embrace and bring the curtain down with a full-throated gospel song...