Word: humorousness
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...were just filled with obscurity - words that you never read or saw outside of a crossword, just stuff you don't know. Nowadays, the point of crosswords is to pack the grids with colorful, lively, juicy vocabularly that everyone knows - where the difficulty comes more from the clues, deception, humor and trickery...
...Artist of the Year, Aykroyd acted as afternoon emcee and infused humor into the show through comic commentary...
...successfully conveying the subtlety of Gray’s emotion, the effect was laughable.As with any story with such a dark and well-known ending, “Stories Left to Tell” always ran the risk of being overdone, but Gray’s sense of humor grounded the play. In one monologue, Gray asks his aging father piercing questions like, “Do you have any regrets?” It is a heavy scene until Gray asks his final question: “Why was I the only one that wasn’t circumcised...
...captivating lines often filled with biting understatements. His accessible diction serves to capture well-observed and interesting moments in the ordinary.So Holder’s work does have redeeming qualities. Perhaps he desired his writing to be subtle and, like his subjects, oddly ordinary. In fact, his understated humor is often lacking in today’s culture. In the end of “Sig Klein’s Fat Man’s Shop,” he writes, “Comforting us / With the notion / That there is indeed...
...curse.Watching the movie is a frustrating task for Perry fans and a disappointing one for newcomers hoping to learn what all the buzz is about. While Perry’s movies are often preachy, their moral messages have always been intertwined with a good amount of irony and humor, creating a balanced tension. Unfortunately, the poor structure of “Madea Goes to Jail” turns this one movie into two separate works: a unique piece of comedy that resembles nothing else and a daytime melodrama that amounts to nothing much. —Staff writer Roy Cohen...