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YOUR FANS MAY NOTE THE ABSENCE OF BOOGER, ONE OF YOUR TRADEMARK WORDS. In fact, I mainly used it to describe the kind of humor I do?"Oh, I write booger jokes." If you actually were to look through my oeuvre, there's probably only once ... a day that I used it. Only a few thousand times did I go to that well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Dave Barry | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...Deconstructing Harry” his only saving grace), in the phenomenal “Match Point,” in radically departing from his typical style Allen accentuates the best elements of his work. The beautiful drama notably lacks Allen’s neuroticisms, self-deprecating humor, and, thankfully, the characteristic on-screen appearance by the aging director himself. Nor does the protagonist, Chris Wilton (Jonathan-Rhys Meyer) seem like a caricature of the auteur. For once, a Woody Allen film seems less about the man, and more about the nature of passion and obsession.Not only has Allen abstracted himself...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Match Point | 1/6/2006 | See Source »

...Happily, Munich and Paradise Now are a relief from all that competence. The latter, about two would-be suicide bombers, is filled with bumbling and a full range of human responses, including humor, to the absurdity of blowing oneself up for a cause. The bombers are average guys dragooned into action by an old pledge. The decision to detonate depends more on a question of personal shame than religious or nationalist avidity-which doesn't seem very realistic either. But if the filmmakers err on the side of humanity, neither are there any blunderbuss "Can't we all just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Hollywood Gets Terrorism Right | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

...more political humor, visit time.com/cartoons

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punchlines: Jan. 9, 2006 | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

...Broadway success of the superingratiating Spamalot proves it: in a generation, any humor can go from naughty to nostalgic. This 16-discathon is a refresher course in the Brit sextet's cleansing silliness. All 45 of the original half-hour BBC shows are here, plus the 1982 Live at the Hollywood Bowl (a greatest-hits show, but ruder) and a 1998 reunion of the five surviving members, recollecting the canon: Silly Walks, Dead Parrot, Cheese Shop, Spanish Inquisition, etc. All together, Pythonites: Wink-wink nudge-nudge, say no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12 Delights of Christmas | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

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