Word: humorous
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With the name Byron Satterlee Hurlbut, he had to have a sense of humor. Hurlbut served as the Dean of Harvard College from 1902 to 1916 and during his term maintained a collection of anecdotes, jokes and crank mail called the “Fun Drawer.” FM poked about in the University Archives, poring over Hurlbut’s illegible handwriting to recover the most amusing contents of the Fun Drawer...
...hates it! (Kelly: "They make you feed a tree before you feed yourself." Ozzy: "How the f___ do you feed a tree? Put out a ham sandwich?") But the show violates the conventions that make so many sitcoms so, well, conventional. The pace is leisurely, not forced, and the humor derives less from "jokes" than from characters who do something more envelope pushing than cursing: surprise...
...when another member of the audience asked a lengthy question about how the dollar would be affected if oil were to be exported in the Euro instead of the dollar, Rubin didn’t lose his patience—or his humor...
...medium only lends itself to a finite number of revisions. Ink lines must be removed with rubbing alcohol, which degrades the surface, so Johnson’s pieces must be planned out ahead of time. There is a comforting symmetry to much of the work, and subtle humor throughout—but even though Johnson is visually provocative, his compositions feel ultimately cold, contrived and overwhelming...
...director Roger Kumble (Cruel Intentions). Once settled into its seemingly random and chaotic pace with characters and overly elaborate gags tumbling on top of each other, it becomes clear that the film is nothing more than a high farce of the first degree. Subtlety is banished not only in humor, but also in the ultimate climax of the plot, in which we see Christina realize—only after copious amounts of melodramatic sobbing, of course—that when it comes to matters of the heart, her self-help bibles are right: “thou shalt...