Word: humorous
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...thing remained constant: the success of the show was almost entirely contingent upon Benjamin’s sense of humor. If one found it unappealing, nothing else would carry the performance: not the plot, not the theater-going experience, nothing...
...Benjamin’s absurdist brand of humor was supplemented by recurring images present throughout the play in the actors’ costumes (designed by Gul N. Dogusan) and in the set (designed by Khadija Z. Carroll...
...humor in the play was so accessible, it was hard to condemn. In one scene, an actress, turned with her back to the audience, stood behind a placard reading “has a nice ass” and shook, well...
...funny, certainly; bizarre, yes; but also a far cry from the formal, unbroken Surrealist veneer of, say, Luis Buñuel’s early films. Another sequence early in the play featured a parodic ballet to grandiose music, about on par with the kind of humor you would see in a commercial during the Super Bowl. If anything, the show was unpretentious...
...that may be Iggy’s nod to 1950s crooners, the title track proves enjoyable. Well-placed saxophones in “Passing Cloud” liven up an otherwise monotonous stretch of the album. “Mexican Guy,” despite its off-color racial humor, does have a infectious beat. Lyrically speaking, the album still exhibits the nihilism and quasi-political fury characteristic of “Raw Power” and punk rock in general, while managing to be modern at the same time. “Free & Freaky,” for example...