Word: humority
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...most extreme and hysterical inclusions in "Dig" are short "letters" Southern concocted for the "National Lampoon" and the private amusement of his friends. Affecting an offhanded style, Southern gleefully raises the bar for bad-taste humor in these pieces, delivering bizarre gross-outs and politically incorrect (understatement) proclamations while tweaking various bastions of civilized behavior. Although the letters read like spontaneous creations, lacking the craft and precision of Southern's best work, their surprisingly crude contents do satisfy his cardinal rule for successful writing: namely, that it possesses the "capacity to astonish...
...Humor has influenced her outlook on life, which she examines through a light-hearted perspective...
Despite his lack of cultural currency, Rubin is known by his co-workers for his candor and self-deprecating humor, qualities that may be revealed with today’s speech...
...think he’ll take it really seriously and spend a lot of energy thinking about what he wants to say wrapped in a package of self-deprecating humor,” Podesta says...
...This humor may not be enough to satisfy the American Indians who plan to protest Rubin’s speech. They accuse Rubin and the Treasury Department of not paying millions of dollars the Federal government owes to Indians living on reservations...