Word: humority
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...comic essayist never did produce the serious work he wanted to, and he wasted too much time in Hollywood, playing small parts in smaller movies. But seated on the aisle during the '20s and '30s, as drama critic of Life, the humor magazine, and later The New Yorker, Robert Benchley was in his essential elements of earth, air and firewater. The boozy, bemused uncle of the theater sees a parade of greats. He applauds Jimmy Durante, discovers Bob Hope and Groucho Marx, and collects parodies of a Cole Porter lyric: "Night and day under the bark of me/ There...
Those Cambridge encounters further propelled Frayn away from asbestos sales and into an exemplary career as journalist, novelist and playwright. While still an undergraduate, he contributed to the premier humor magazine Punch. Straight out of school, he wrote news and columns for the Manchester Guardian and then the Observer. Turning to fiction, he produced five deft, whimsical novels centered on class conflicts and old school ties. In the past decade he has emerged as one of Britain's leading playwrights. His glimpse of backstage pandemonium, Noises Off, was a Broadway hit two seasons ago. Seven earlier scripts have been produced...
...along the President's boyhood streets. There he will search for keys to Reagan's character, look for experiences of those distant years that surface today. Morris has noted that at Reagan's "cutting edge" lunches, where pioneering physicists, geneticists and others come to talk, the host's native humor and geniality almost always help to bring out ideas from the visitors...
Reagan will try humor, because last time when he told his few jokes to Gorbachev, the Soviet chief's eyes lighted up. Humor sometimes penetrates heavy shadows when other thrusts fail." It really was natural with him," says the President. "I had a good supply of jokes, and I'll have a few new ones for this time...
...four-part movie may seem like just another Cleese farce, but it has a serious purpose. Its intended audience includes corporate executives, and the biting humor drives home a forceful message: managers cannot do a decent job, or expect their subordinates to do one, if they have not organized their time and set clear priorities and performance standards. The film is one of more than 70 corporate training films produced by Video Arts, a London company that Cleese helped start in 1972. Over the years, Cleese has instructed bosses on everything from running meetings to conducting interviews with prospective employees...