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...damn about you or anything you do.” One can almost see Micahel Scott from NBC’s “The Office” telling the same anecdote, but that’s just the problem: many of Handey’s jokes would be funnier acted out and audibly articulated, because sometimes his humor becomes a little too dark and a little too bizarre for the page. Without live action, the text’s slapstick aspects tend to fall flat. In addition, the pathetic characters Handey utilizes in his pieces are given no human...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Deep-ish Thoughts | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...Humans are Dead”). Transforming the entire first half of “Bowie” into a spoken word section might have made the track easier to understand for those unfamiliar with the context, but it inadvertently ruined some of the song’s funnier bits, most prominently the original reference to David Bowie’s 1971 release “Changes” and the formerly yelped “Would you like my jumper, Bowie?” “Robots” suffers similar symptoms, as some of the robot voices that...

Author: By Ross S. Weinstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Flight of the Conchords | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...There's nothing funnier than billion-dollar corporations taking time out of their busy multinational money-making days for a little light humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: April Fooled by Google and Virgin? | 4/1/2008 | See Source »

...Kathleen Chen and I, we wrote the script, and then we chose a composer, and then we basically rewrote the whole thing up until yesterday. It’s a continual process. There’s no set script. We’re constantly improving it to make it funnier and faster, better, stronger, etc.RR: Have you acted before at Harvard, or did you write this script just so you could write yourself in?BP: It’s really hard to write a character for yourself, especially in the Pudding. I had been in the cast the year before...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ROVING REPORTER: Fable Attraction | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

Lipstick is funnier and more sophisticated, fitting better in SATC's Jimmy Choos. It's driven by the power trio's layered friendship; mogul mom Wendy (Brooke Shields) is the big sister of the group, designer Victory (Lindsay Price) the angsty young sib, and editor Nico (Kim Raver) the deceptively low-key one. The men are neither pigs nor saints, and the women are not perfect--Nico is having an affair, as much a betrayal of her friends, whom she hides it from, as of her husband. But the show makes them seem normal and grounded in contrast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Becoming Ms. Big | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

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