Word: comicality
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...Next Generation of Superheroes,” a piece which focuses on the efforts of writer Naif Al-Mutawa to rectify “the lack of heroes” in the Arab world. Al-Mutawa has established the Kuwait-based Teshkeel Media Group as a platform for a comics series called “The 99.”It’s a project he sees as based on the intertwined mythologies of Islam and the Middle East and as a cultural bridge-builder. But the series is not alone...
...husbands, you are irresponsible and selfish ogres who enslave your wives and smother their souls; wives and mothers, you are the wretched of the earth, condemned to a pathetic and pitiable existence.“Arlington Park” is an unbalanced novel that lacks the small moments of comic relief necessary for a really good read. As gorgeous as Cusk’s writing is, it rarely expresses more than bitterness. —Reviewer April B. Wang can be reached at abwang@fas.harvard.edu...
...Schumacher figures that Carrey's happiness, particularly with girlfriend Playboy model cum gross-out comic Jenny McCarthy, allowed him to play a tortured obsessive-compulsive in The Number 23. "I've seen him really suffer in love. He wasn't ready to go to the places he goes in this movie back then," Schumacher says of the twice-divorced actor. "He was afraid that if he went to those dark places, his life would be misery the whole time he was making the movie. But now life is good for Jim. He could tear his heart down, then go home...
...coming Valentine’s Day. The show began rather dryly with two somewhat awkward jocks shyly shaking their derrières for a meager $15. However, the humorous and flamboyant antics of the night’s emcee, Harrison R. Greenbaum ’08, offered some needed comic relief. He even referenced a certain SNL skit to familiarize the audience with the finer points of charity. “Don’t put your dick in the box,” Greenbaum joked, “I don’t think we can donate that...
...grotesque,’” Gruber said. “I don’t like to think of our characters as grotesque. They’re obviously human with a full 360 degrees of humanity and emotion.” The two comics met on the set of “Saturday Night Live” when Koechner was a cast member and Gruber was a guest writer. They shared a love for ensemble comedy like Monty Python and the Marx Brothers, and hit it off. Before Comedy Central signed them for their first season on television...