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English culture has offered a lot to the world over the years. Among its most noteworthy cultural contributions is its sense of humor. Marked by quirky sarcasm and subtlety, it is bloody hilarious and serves as a dear friend to all of those nerdy, socially awkward students who find most contemporary pop humor to be somewhat beneath them. Clearly, I’m no stranger to this mentality and, given the nature of the Harvard student body, I don’t think I’m alone here...
Although Monty Python is the first example of British humor to spring to most people’s minds, another much-loved manifestation is Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” the ludicrous and endearingly funny story of Arthur Dent, one poor lost Earthling haplessly finding his way through the Universe after escaping the Earth shortly before its destruction to make way for an interstellar bypass...
...originally written, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” was not well-suited for the silver screen. Adams’ much-loved quirky humor based itself much more on rhythm, pacing, and idiosyncratic description than it did on any sort of visual comedy. Although his witty prose certainly evokes no shortage of silly imagery, the comedy invariably manifests itself more in the style and delivery of the description, than it does in the image itself. While, when deployed in a written or auditory medium, this style is used to hilarious effect, it simply...
Indeed, it does not seem far-fetched to predict that any viewer, of any generation, will find bits of “This Is Our Youth” that hit home––with poignancy and with humor...
...dirty, dirty, people who refuse to shower and are looking to spread [our] rashes among the Harvard student body.” Clearly, the writers of this editorial decided to Dial® up their rhetoric to Gain® a laugh at our expense. To this attempt at humor, we make no objections—Mather wholeheartedly supports humor in all of its guises and certainly expects it from magazines such as the Lampoon, Swift, and Satire V. We gladly add The Crimson to this list, as we especially Cheer-ed® for the Editorial Board’s admirable facility...