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...Trade. Confession: FlyBy wasn't a huge fan of the baby from the get-go, but as we've moved from this to this, it has been getting consistently funnier...
...Nothing is funnier than unhappiness,” trash can-dwelling Nell says in the American Repertory Theatre’s current production of Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame.” Indeed, the bleak world and hopeless characters become darkly, sadly funny and wholly human in the hands of a capable team of actors and designers headed by director Marcus Stern. The phenomenal acting, skillful directing, and stunning creative vision of the play—which runs through March 15 at the Loeb Drama Center—produce a near-perfect experience of Beckett?...
...awards are intended to skewer, he doesn't think a primetime Razzie Awards show will ever be possible. "There are some people in Hollywood who get the joke, but most just seem to hate it, and wish we would go away - which of course makes all this that much funnier," he says, noting that the Razzies are more a collective condemnation of a lazy industry than a poke at a handful of bad films. "For these movies to fail at this level, with these sorts of budgets and promotional efforts and this much talent involved" takes special effort, Wilson notes...
...packed with enticingly titled seminars such as "Arbitrageur of Capital" and "Dynamics of Asset Returns and Liquidity." "Microeconomists are wrong about specific things, and macroeconomists are wrong about things in general," Bauman quips during his set. "Particularly having successfully predicted nine out of the last five recessions." It's funnier if you're familiar with the inherent tense dichotomy between micro- and macroeconomic schools of thought. With this crowd, it kills...
...based on William Steig's children's stories about a softhearted ogre, was one of the most charming of the new wave of cartoons for the whole family launched in 1989 by Disney's The Little Mermaid. With its fart jokes and self-parodying humor, Shrek was hipper and funnier than the more earnest and straightforward Disney fairy tales, as well as one of the few that appealed primarily to boys, an underserved audience on Broadway, where shows like Wicked and Legally Blonde have become love objects for tween girls. (See TIME's Top 10 Plays and Musicals...