Word: humorous
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...being completed in Broomfield, Colo.; PBS is toying with a series on White House partners; and there is talk of a television drama about a White House family that would center on a fictional First Lady. No doubt she will be a curvaceous woman of intelligence, strength and wicked humor who saves, if not the world, at least her wandering but likable husband. Maybe they will call it The East Wing...
...word suggests cardigan sweaters," says David Sedaris. The word is humorist. He doesn't like it. It's not as bad as funnyman, but it's close. "The humor section," he whines into the phone, speaking long distance from Paris, where he has been living because he's a smoker and so are most Parisians, "is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons...
...ending reading tour that made him comic literature's equivalent of the Rolling Stones. His work continues to be featured on NPR, and this month Me Talk Pretty One Day, the fourth installment in Sedaris' ongoing autobiography, will be awarded the James Thurber Prize, the national book award for humor. Pretty good for a writer whose idea of fun is "sociological problems and medical mishaps...
...humor in Sedaris is transgressive, but it never feels contrived to be so. It's his legitimate, warped view of his legitimate, warped life. There is nothing archetypal about Sedaris, nothing broad. While it's easy to think of Dave Barry as an especially funny version of a guy you might know, it's hard to imagine knowing anyone like David Sedaris...
...year, this engineering showdown (which airs new episodes starting Sept. 12) quietly became the class of the reality-TV field, turning groups of tinkerers loose on a scrap heap to build cannons, gliders, rockets and the like out of detritus, then pit their improvised creations against each other. With humor and an adorable host (Cathy Rogers, the thinking viewer's Julie Chen)--and without the robo-macho aggressiveness of Comedy Central's BattleBots--Junkyard shows that, sometimes, making smart, escapist TV is rocket science...