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Hodgman's humor requires a high cultural IQ. "I don't consider what I do comedy qua comedy," he says. "It's something much weirder." Nevertheless, his weirdness is in high demand, with gigs on NPR's This American Life and editing the Times Magazine's new "Funny Pages" feature--in addition to The Daily Show and the sequel to Expertise he's writing. "Like Tintin, I'm not one to turn down a good adventure," says Hodgman. "Even when my drunken sailor companion begs me to just stay home in the ch�teau for once...
Some of Showzen's humor is gross, some is politically pointed, and plenty is both (e.g., the cartoon "Global Politics in 30 Seconds," in which an animated U.S. urinates on Mexico, eats South America and humps the Middle East). The metajoke of Wonder Showzen is the dissonance between the message of kids' shows (that the world is friendly and understandable) and everything that is left out (hatred, injustice, random suffering). It's best captured in the man-on-the-street interviews, some done by a sweetly obnoxious blue puppet named Clarence, some by children. (One adorable little girl asks Wall...
...Frankie was here to make a better life for himself,” Johannessen says. “He was confident, with a sense of humor about himself. He’d always say how great he was. We’d say ‘Of course you are, Frankie...
While this production promises to deliver the characteristic Gilbert and Sullivan humor style that the composers’ fans know and love, “Yeomen” is noteworthy for its new delivery of a Victorian-era story...
...portrayal of the perplexing nature of female depression in “Friends with Money” seems to echo Michael Cunningham’s book and 2002 screenplay “The Hours.” At the same time, this movie strives for the sexual humor and heart-warming friendship of “Sex and the City”—unsurprising in that Holofcener directed several episodes of the seminal show...