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...bending twist to the show's time-jumping narrative that I won't spoil, while keeping its head of steam from Season 4. Lost has a pulp streak--the premiere doesn't just use but also conspicuously repeats the line "God help us all!"--yet it's leavened by humor and performances that ground the bizarre events in a plausible humanity. (Especially Jorge Garcia as sweet, afflicted Hurley, the world's unluckiest lottery winner...
Litt, who in mid-December took on the even juicier task of prosecuting Bernard Madoff, is deliberate, with an extreme attention to detail. He has a cool head, but friends love pointing to his dry sense of humor. For example, he once told a dentist he was examining in court that he was looking forward to finally having a dentist in his chair. In a recent court brief he quoted Shakespeare. "The irony of the [defense's] casting of his argument in terms of the Lady Macbeth line, 'Out, damned spot! Out I say!,' Litt wrote, "is [an irony...
...both based in Tokyo. He was 29 years old then and was the deputy financial attaché at the U.S. embassy. We hit it off, as he did with many of the expat journalists in town: he is smart but not arrogantly so and has a wry sense of humor...
Back in 2004, the online humor site JibJab released what turned out to be the viral video hit of the George W. Bush-John Kerry election cycle. Set to the tune of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land," JibJab's "This Land!", was a Flash-animated satire that took every stereotype about the two candidates and made them even more stereotypical...
...early features, Bring It On and Down with Love, were in-your-face comedies with a Pop art design scheme; they aimed to get to endearing by going through aggressive. Reed found a subtler tone in his Vince Vaughn-Jennifer Aniston hit The Break-Up, in which both the humor and the despair rose from domestic behavior that, if exaggerated for dramatic effect, was still recognizable. Yes Man straddles those two styles. It ambles along, Judd Apatow-style (and includes a fellatio gag that should have earned the movie an R rating) while affording Carrey a few opportunities...