Word: humority
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...things. It saddens me if people think I’m exploiting my family just to make a good story. That’s a cheap way of looking at writing about childhood and memory. I’m trying to rework the material to bring out the humor and sympathy where it might be overlooked. But yes, most of my characters are based on people I know very well and it’s made the process very intense. My meetings with my thesis advisor sometimes feel like therapy sessions. She?...
Erlich is hilarious throughout. He’ll say anything to get the girl and introduces himself to the audience in a frenetic, hormone-driven shpiel filled with name-dropping and absurd anecdotes. Without surrendering the humor of the role, Erlich manages to hint at the many levels of a seemingly shallow womanizer...
Though the script at times drags, and the intelligence level of the humor is lower than needed to elicit laughs, the play is directed by Geoffrey Stevens ’03 with the right comic emphasis and registers as a success and an enjoyable diversion for a college audience...
...personalities and antics of these three mobile musicians essentially carry the show, veritably providing all tangible elements of humor or rage that drape, satisfactorily enough, across the flimsy clothesline of the songs. The performers are full of energy, though where the energy is coming from is a bit unclear; not from the music itself, certainly, which early on blurs into a mush of pulsing sounds, none of which particularly complement each other. The entire show, consequently, feels literally out of sync. I knew we were done for when Mitchell started a little exercise routine right there on stage?...
...what exactly makes these novels so wildly successful? Is it Rowling’s charismatic characters with whom everyone can relate? Her witty, brisk dialogue? Her tongue-in-cheek humor? Her vivid descriptions? Her fantastical names and whimsical jargon? Or, more likely, have kids simply exhausted the worlds of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia Chronicles and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Ring Fellowship and even that staple of childhood fantasy, Roald Dahl, welcoming J.K. Rowling’s more approachable—and more marketable—Hogwarts...