Word: humorousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...blistering pain into bubbling laughter as it focuses on the vastly uncomic plight of two parents whose ten-year-old child is a spastic vegetable. While this might appear to be the epitome of black and sick comedy, the play is neither, though it is full of the modern humor of cruelty and the games people play to put each other on or down...
...this film-is that the rough nights and days cannot get either of them down. Despite its scruffy scene and downhill theme, Poor Cow is not really another of England's angry proletarian tragedies. The film tells its story with humanity that is never sentimental and humor that never jokes...
Still, in every caricature, there was always some saddening or joyous truth, just as in Wolfe himself; when he could shake whatever demon was riding him, there was a quota of humor, fundamental decency and kindness. Moreover, he packed a mighty literary ambition. He made it plain that he was out to lasso and pin down the Great American Novel. He wanted to force the whole torrent of the U.S. experience between covers, from mean Brooklyn alleys to the lush farms of the heartland, from city slickers to wary countrymen-and for good measure he meant to throw in mountains...
...rest of the material on war, and there is unfortunately a great deal more, is best left undiscussed. Lampoon humor appears sharpest when allowed to wander outside the constraints of the particular topic. Cartoonist David McClelland, for example, is funniest when he is being irrelevant ("Where is Krishna Menon now that we need him?"), which happily he is often...
...appears "eight times a year, September to June, inclusive except January"). One imagines the Poonies spent considerable time amassing the over-sized issue on war. As the Jester says, "We managed to survive, but the tension was great. At moments we came within inches of losing our sense of humor...