Word: humorousness
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...place is so incapacitated now, he'd walk right in." Meeting adversity with a sort of gloomy wit is not a characteristic that always serves Brits well; they sometimes crack jokes when they should be complaining. Yet in this coldest of economic climates, an unquenchable sense of humor is one commodity that won't lose its value...
What keeps Dollhouse interesting is its ideas about memory and the self. But while it's haunting, cerebral and gorgeous, it's also a little cold, though the flashes of humor help. ("We have a situation," one character reports. "The kind you need to shoot at.") Like its actives, it's a marvelous piece of engineering. But I hope it develops a personality...
...just the obligatory Hollywood sendoff for another departed star. They actually helped make the case for Carlin's immense importance in the world of comedy, a case never made during his lifetime. And so, the ceremony in which Carlin was posthumously awarded the annual Mark Twain Prize in American Humor - taped last November at the Kennedy Center, and airing on PBS on Wednesday, Feb. 4, at 9 p.m. E.T. - brings the cycle of tributes to an especially satisfying conclusion...
...said that he feared for the safety of his family's life prior to Madoff's arrest, read parts from his nearly 60-page written description of the SEC's "investigative ineptitude" and "financial illiteracy." At the start of his oral statement, Markopolos injected a bit of metaphorical humor into his charge, describing the SEC as a regulatory agency that "roars like a mouse and fights like a flea." With the sober, academic look of an accountant, the former investment manager for Rampart Investment Management in Boston (he is currently an independent certified fraud examiner) detailed Madoff's phony split...
Germans, used to being the butt of such comments, were quick to exploit the humor in Britain's floundering response to what the country's weather forecasters called an "extreme weather situation." "Where I come from, this isn't snow," a Croatian living in London told the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung. But "in Britain, different measurements apply," the paper added. Another publication from southern Germany, the Badische Zeitung, turned Britain's enduring addiction to wartime jokes back on their old adversary with a simple two-word headline: "London Capitulates...