Word: humorizing
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...climbers known as Mont-Blanckers, and just when you'd exhausted yourself guessing how low Nash would stoop for a rhyme, you'd learn at the end of the line that he never stoops, he conquers. An editor's note in the recent collection "Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker" (which includes five Nash poems) describes this trope as his "uniquely anarchic prosody." But the truth is, he flouted these rules to flaunt his jocosity. Here's one example, About bankers who got into television as a new field, not to tread...
...yellphia. I was one of those kids, with the average boy's life of schoolboy, scrimmager, moviegoer and TV gawker, But I also read the magazines that came through our mail slot, like Time, Reader's Digest, the Saturday Evening Post and, yes, The New Yawker. I enjoyed the humor in these magazines more than any child of my acquaintance, And of all the humorists, Ogden Nash was the one who in my little reliquary acquired patron-saintance. Soon my Nashophilia had so far ripened That I plopped down 35 cents of my hard-begged weekly stipend And bought...
...flesh and clothing. "Fate" tells the story of how a playmate accidentally smashed Crumb's mouth, leaving him with an absurd, gap-toothed grin all through adolescence. Not so funny? Wait till you see. Crumb's willingness to show himself in the most unflattering way turns the pain into humor...
...hits-the-strip-mall tale The Good Girl, White gives the misunderstood-author type another twist, making Jake Gyllenhaal's Holden both a genuinely tortured soul and a childish poseur. It's that tension--between satire and empathy, pathos and bathos--that gives White's scripts their characteristic discomfiting humor. "Most comedies are so insubstantial that I come out feeling kind of empty," says White. "I feel it's sad to leave all the great themes of drama to the dramatists." White's upcoming movie, The School of Rock (starring Jack Black), is likewise a comedy. Let's hope...
...real participant. The tour began at the Pulse theater where Kramer entertained with his own stand-up and with tales from Seinfeld-past. He told about how Larry David, the co-creater and writer, ended up working with Jerry and shaping the show’s dark humor. He discussed how the real Kramer actually wanted to construct levels in his apartment (“it’ll be like Ancient Egypt”) and how Larry really ordered Chinese goop to save himself from baldness. In essence, he told how the show about nothing arose from the lives...