Word: humorizing
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When in doubt during interviews, always try to show your sense of humor. Studies have shown that humorists are the most likely people to be successful in landing jobs. I’m serious. Look it up. Now leave me alone while I preorder my industrial-sized case of SpaghettiOs...
During his college years, Franken—who would later become one of the two founding writers for Saturday Night Live—was famously rejected from the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
Faced with a cacophonous gay uproar, Snickers relented, responding to its critics with the bland “humor is highly subjective” and acknowledging that “some people may have found the ad offensive.” Even in its apparent submission, Snickers retained its credibility. Humor is subjective and, at times, meant to rattle its audience out of complacency; the biting wits of Stephen Colbert and Sarah Silverman are perfect examples. That someone took offense is not Snickers’ fault, but rather the fault of those who sit down in front of the television...
...Panic in the Streets” (Elia Kazan, 1950), the noir masterpiece “The Third Man” (Carol Reed, 1949), and the low-budget sci-fi romp “Rocketship X-M” (Kurt Neumann, 1950), are equally suffused with dread, uncertainty, and black humor...
...Briahna J. Gray ’07 is a history of science and history of art and architecture joint concentrator in Currier House who hopes that her sense of humor isn’t significantly crippled by the exhaustion and anxiety provoked by 23 course requirements and a joint thesis. She would like to give a shout out to the core office—we’ll always have Science A. Catch her cartoon on Fridays...