Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every other sport has strict rules against fighting. After all, America's Funniest Home Videos would have appreciated Derek Harper vs. Jo-Jo English last year in the NBA playoffs. However, the league was completely embarrassed by the skirmish (which took place right in front of the commissioner), so the NBA cut down on fighting even more...
...After we beat Northern Virginia, which was much bigger than us," she says, "these two women, both around 6'2" 200, came up to talk to me. They thought it was the funniest thing that someone my size played. One of them was a house painter, and one worked for Arthur D. Little. They claimed I was 4'11", and asked me a lot of short questions, like if I can see the top of the fridge...
Lucille has been waiting too, singing in nightclubs, always talking about leaving Las Vegas and never being able to do it. Finally, her manager, the funniest character in the movie, (played excellently by David Cross) gets her an audition with record-company hot-shot Vine Vidivici. Instead of coming, seeing and conquering, Vinnie comes to Vegas...
Despite the aesthetic pleasure (and sick glee) to be enjoyed from the above short's the best films of the bunch are also the funniest. "The Janitor," an Oscar nominee by Canadian Vanessa Schwartz, uses mellow vernacular and quirky sketches of a naked old man's body to bring a janitor of the universe to life. Lines describing the moon as a "sure" nub dustcatcher" don't hurt either...
...funniest shorts of all belong to the English. Both "The Wrong Trousers" (a one-time Oscar winner) and "Bob's Birthday" (this year's winner) owe much of their irresistability to their particular brand of British humor. These two films are well-known among those in The animated know and for good reason...