Word: funnier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When I first heard about the guidelines. I thought we were just going to try and be funnier. Now we come up with a really funny show and it gets canned." Rubin added...
Faculty Advisor Thomas Everett said the original program might 'have been funnier, but added that, "at a time when people are watching very closely," it was good policy to avoid what might be interpreted as sexual innuendo...
...published in 1980, lists more than two dozen phrases meaning "to vomit." This is no mistake. Perhaps more than any other group in recent decades, the youth of the 1980s revel in bad taste. For the generation that grew up with Saturday Night Live and Animal House, nothing is funnier than a well told puke joke...
...humor." Pryor's movie characters show the resentment and vulnerability of the underdog; Eddie, in front of the cameras or away from them, is a hot dog, full of sass and guileless assurance. The Murphy analysis: "Richard's funny as the victim, but I'm funnier when I try to fight back. Maybe the star of the '90s will be the funny black guy who runs the show. It would be nice to see that progression...
...Neighbors, situations can always get worse, and funnier. Beeler's son Tony, a nearsighted weight lifter, defends his mother's honor by slugging a rude Millville cop. This, in turn, makes it more difficult for Tony to court Eva, Bullard's buxom 13-year-old daughter. Bullard's nasty son Junior gets hold of Cousin Rev's pistol and is transformed into a menacing big shot ("It was funny how carrying a gun made you feel as if you were dreaming"). In Hornbeck, Beeler's daughter Bernice comes home from the big city bragging...