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...confession that she can't cry hang there without elaboration, but it suggests a pathos to the character that goes beyond pee jokes. "In music or poetry or movies, I'm a fan of heartbreak," Silverman says. "I think most of my stand-up is either silly, gratuitous bathroom humor or is heartbreaking, if you break it down by subject matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: So This Woman Walks Into A Sitcom... | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...Sarah Silverman Program may just be the closest that boutique cable comedy comes to a date movie: a little heartbreak for her, a little peepee humor for him. Silverman doesn't like to speculate on the show's gender appeal: "I just like to think of myself as a comic." But she may have ended up unwittingly rebutting Christopher Hitchens the best way possible: by having, and getting, the last laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: So This Woman Walks Into A Sitcom... | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...sudden passion for half-wit humor? Well, National Lampoon has also produced a sometimes tasteless but usually funny series of movies. The biggest: National Lampoon's Animal House, which netted the firm $13 million. Lots of businessmen can giggle over that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: Dec. 15, 1986 | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...midst of the turmoil, one White House official announced last week that he was making a clean getaway. After more than 2,000 briefings over five years, during which he deftly handled the White House press corps with a Mississippi mixture of down-home humor, cool confrontation and condescending courtliness, Spokesman Larry Speakes said he would be leaving in two months. He is not, however, being driven away by the scandal. For months he has been negotiating for a $250,000-a-year job as head of public relations for Merrill Lynch, the Wall Street investment firm once headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under Heavy Fire | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...careworn, is asked by her son to tell once more of the time in her girlhood when she danced a fox-trot with George Raft. As she recounts the one public moment when she ever felt attractive, her face softens and she reveals a hidden sense of humor, of naughtiness, of delight. The son responds with glee: "There's a whole movie in this story, ma. And one day I'm going to write it." Then he asks her to dance. He holds her in his arms, standing in for the absent father who is abandoning the family. The mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Simon: Reliving A Poignant Past | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

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