Word: humorizing
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...sparse acoustic feel and airy harmonies, just didn’t have the power to carry the crowd between dense rockers. Similarly disappointing was “I’m Still Your Fag,” although at least this song benefited from a sense of self-deprecating humor that was lacking on some of the more overwrought numbers...
...qualms about being publicly humiliated,” he says. “I think that’s the nice thing about rejection. It’s a growing experience.” In fact, the combination of Maats’ very public rejections and his sense of humor have given him a rascally reputation, and he doesn’t seem to mind...
...real trick to their belovedness is that Joel and Ethan Coen go highbrow on lowbrow: opera parody mixes with stoner humor in The Big Lebowski, a cow explodes in the middle of a Depression-era adaptation of The Odyssey in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and quips about Renaissance music are juxtaposed with irritable-bowel syndrome in their latest, The Ladykillers, which opens this Friday. "We're not embarrassed to put in the cheapest gags if they make us laugh," says Joel, 49. "On the other hand, if something goes over somebody's head, we don't care...
EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE VERY POLITICALLY AWARE, YOUR MATERIAL IS NOT OVERTLY POLITICAL. YOU DON'T DO JOKES ABOUT THE PRESIDENT. IS THAT GOING TO CHANGE? No. I don't like topical humor. It bothers me. I don't enjoy it. I find it thin and superficial and rather easy to do. I don't like easy targets, and I don't like sounding like everyone else...
DIED. JOHN (J.J.) JACKSON, 62, who, with a vast knowledge of music and sense of humor as one of the first MTV VJs, helped usher in the music-video era; of an apparent heart attack; in Los Angeles. During the late 1960s, he worked as a DJ in Boston and emceed for Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin...