Word: humorousness
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...brainer. The movie, based on William Steig's children's stories about a softhearted ogre, was one of the most charming of the new wave of cartoons for the whole family launched in 1989 by Disney's The Little Mermaid. With its fart jokes and self-parodying humor, Shrek was hipper and funnier than the more earnest and straightforward Disney fairy tales, as well as one of the few that appealed primarily to boys, an underserved audience on Broadway, where shows like Wicked and Legally Blonde have become love objects for tween girls. (See TIME's Top 10 Plays...
...other losing tickets ran on humor more than ideas. The antics of Michael C. Koenigs ’09 and Aneliese K. Palmer ’12 included a mock assassination attempt at a UC debate. Roger G. Waite ’10 and Alexandra A. Petri ’10 called for the installation of a Hapsburg prince as UC president...
...other losing tickets ran more on humor than ideas. The antics of Michael C. Koenigs ’09 and Aneliese K. Palmer ’12 included a mock assassination attempt at a UC debate. Roger G. Waite ’10 and Alexandra A. Petri ’10 put forward a satirical platform calling for the installation of a Hapsburg prince as UC president. —Staff writer Alex M. McLeese can be reached at amcleese@fas.harvard.edu...
...essentially played for laughs. A minor character is also viciously murdered midway through the film, and his death is characterized as little more than collateral damage. The ethos of “Nobel Son” seems to imply that the suffering of innocent strangers can be rather humorous. Only the attractive, wealthy characters at the center of the film truly matter as human beings, it seems. Ethics aside, what is perhaps most disappointing about “Nobel Son” is the enormous amount of talent wasted on the project. Rickman was born to play the despicable...
...campaign and a plan to suspend the debate (which was later aborted), and showed an underwhelming effort in his return to Washington to support the federal bailout package - which led him to cancel an appearance on Late Show with David Letterman. Davis, who approached the event with humor, admitted, "The most damaging thing was pissing off Letterman...