Word: funniest
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...begin to feel sorry for them. Willie falls into the same trap as the reader. Then comes the day he is forced by his comrades to kill. He surrenders to the police and faces the prospect of a long jail term for his crime. Then, in one of the funniest touches in Naipaul's entire oeuvre, Chandran's forgotten book of short stories is rediscovered, he is hailed as a father of modern Indian fiction and is released. Magic Seeds may have its problems?the characters think too much, and think the same things too often, and Willie lacks...
...come on your next shift. There's nothing amusing about the show's inspirations--Leary's personal loss and the aftereffects for the F.D.N.Y. of losing 343 fire fighters on Sept. 11, 2001. And yet it is not just one of the most moving but also one of the funniest shows you will see this year: a sort of post...
...world. The misadventures of this renegade geek-along with those of the starlet, her mother, a shallow London marketing executive, his promiscuous girlfriend, a couple of xenophobic European bureaucrats and a Korean society devoted to an online fantasy game-combine to make for what may be this year's funniest piece of serious literature...
First of all, there is much fun to be had in Middle Eastern airports. Okay, okay, allow me to rephrase: some of my funniest experiences have centered around my travels to, from and around the region. From negotiating for my visa stamps in abysmal French and refusing marriage proposals from Egypt Air flight attendants—note: the correct response to such a proposal is not “But you’re married!” because the response will invariably be “But in our law, men can have two wives...
...dull nebbish attempts to woo a distracted, hard-nippled Amazon-like woman. Further on appears the wordless examination of man's attempts at ordering nature, "ctrl," by Richard McGuire, an artist who virtually disappeared after creating "Here," a singular, diamond-like piece of brilliance almost fifteen years ago. The funniest piece belongs to Joe Matt, who's autobiographical "Toronto, Ontario. Canada" details his obsessive onanism and general poor living with horrifying candor. The breakout "unknown" artist is David Heatley, who provides poignant and funny vignettes of his father in "Portrait of My Dad." Other contributor...