Word: funniest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bowfinger, perhaps the funniest movie for grownups so far this year, recounts the attempt of the desperate former to feature the fame-addled latter in his absurd project. Basically, this involves making Kit the star of a movie without telling him he's in it. That in turn requires Bobby and his crew to stalk and provoke the star into photographable action. Since Kit is at least half convinced that he is being plagued by space aliens, these intrusions add fuel to the flame of his pathology...
With Broadway musicals intent on offering messages instead of laughs, it's no wonder that comedy-starved audiences have been flocking to off-Broadway revues. Spotlighting mankind's tics and follies, composer-lyricist John Forster has created the freshest and funniest of them. Whether targeting the timely (Thomas Jefferson's dna) or the timeless (romantic mismatches), Forster delivers hilariously. The cast of five is just about perfect...
...have personally written about 180 pages of [the book]--and all of that's going in," he said. "That leaves what--two pages each for the rest? If you take the 100 pages they've written and condense it down to two pages, that's going to be the funniest part of the book. I mean, it has to be--the law of averages or something...
...couldn't deal with seeing myself on those tapes, I don't think I could have handled having my dorkiness deconstructed by 16-year-old girls around the world. So instead, I'll gladly do my entertainment duty by taking a ball in the groin for America's Funniest Home Videos, just like everybody else. Because, I now realize, after watching loads of The Real World, that there are few things quite as cringe-inducing as listening to people try to describe who they are. Except, of course, in a magazine column...
When her top choice Yale accepted her, she and her family moved to Connecticut. And when Harvard offered her a teaching position several years later, Bruzelius recalls, her friends "thought it was the funniest thing they had ever heard" that she was returning to an alma mater that she remembered less than fondly...