Word: humorizing
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...don’t shy away from making statements—and it’s earning them fans. “The most intelligent ignorance” is how M.C. Brandon M. Terry ’05 describes the vocals he brings to Tha League, which mixes irreverent humor and serious social dialogue. Tha League, comprised of vocalists Nick H. Barnes ’05, Dominique C. Deleon ’04, Kwame Owusu-Kesse ’06 and Terry, has entered the hunt for success. It is banking on its “extended family?...
...perhaps a final examination is a chance to help the instructor with his future after dinner speeches, perhaps a game which the instructor so enjoys that he must be allowed to play it at the risk of crippling the humor of the undergraduates. Yet it seems only fair under the circumstances to allow the professor to change parts occasionally with the student. The student need not always he "it". And when sometimes due to the heat and the hatred of always losing out in whimsy the student suggests something of the nature of a recent report on Browning...
...that this story, which is part of an ongoing series challenging male cultural stereotypes, was insensitive, hurtful, and in poor taste,” Peres said in a written statement. “There’s a line that should never be crossed in any satirical humor, and Details crossed it. I, on behalf of the magazine, deeply regret this misstep, and apologize to those who were offended...
...Bathroom Humor, by James Henderson, directed by Dave Poole, is about three Wal-Mart employees. Bertrand (Andy Riel), by dint of becoming the fastest checkout clerk on the Eastern seaboard, has been given the honor of making an inspirational speech, but before his speech he has gotten drunk and cloistered himself in the bathroom to vomit. He is encouraged by his co-worker Gary Girard (Kevin LaVelle) and tormented by the diabolical Stuart Steadfast (Greg Luzitano), who wants to steal his glory. Stuart’s momentary presence is the best part of this sequence; his cruel, demonic laughter...
...amazing thing about Blue Blood is that where a lesser writer would just have gone numb, Conlon stays alive to the humor and the sadness and the ironies of life even in the teeth of the city's everyday assault--bricks (and, once, a canned ham) thrown from rooftops, the festering bitterness of precinct-house feuds, the bizarro underworld of the midnight shift, the agony, both Dantean and Sisyphean, of sifting through the rubble of the World Trade Center that has been moved to Staten Island. Conlon has no ambitions as a whistle-blower or a hero--he's neither...