Word: humorous
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Someone in the kitchen must have a good sense of humor, though I’m still not quite sure if I was being laughed with or at. Points go out for presentation. My order of fresh rabbit sausage comes on a bed of shredded carrots: the bunny arrives displayed on its own favorite food. The joke, intentional or not, is soon forgotten for the flavor of the dish. The warm and mild white sausage is shelled in salty crisp pistachio crust, and perks up with the tartness of scattered cranberries...
...prank art is fantastic—it seems like an ethical problem, but I don’t think that he’s malicious in any way. He challenges the ideas of authorship, history, media, and he pulls it off with a sense of humor...
...Song” was released by the Lieberman campaign itself. Cody S. Harris, the California campaign staffer who wrote and recorded the song, said that it is supposed to convey that the candidate is “a fun guy with a sense of humor...
Unfortunately, Harris’s humor doesn’t approach the quality of classic campaign songs like 1949 Boston mayoral candidate Walter A. O’Brien’s “Charlie and the MTA” or “Happy Days Are Here Again,” which Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904 and a former Crimson president, adopted during his first White House...
Meehan wrote dozens of parodies, short stories and other humor pieces for the New Yorker. One of the more famous was a 1962 short story, "Yma Dream," a frequently anthologized tale of a strange cocktail party whose guests bear tongue-twister names. He adapted it as a sketch for Anne Bancroft's 1970 television special, Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man, which not only won him an Emmy but also introduced him to both its director and producer, Martin Charnin, who later offered him his first Broadway show, and his future writing partner, Bancroft's husband...