Word: humors
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Also, let your kids know the things about yourself, apart from your body, that you're proud of--your resourcefulness, for example, or sense of humor. And, perhaps most difficult, don't communicate that you buy the distorted cultural messages that make thinness the essential ingredient for success, power and sexuality...
This HBO sitcom, which starts its second season on June 5, follows newly minted Hollywood heartthrob Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), the support staff that works for (and sometimes against) him, and his three hanger-on buddies. Come for the good-natured insider humor. Stay for Jeremy Piven as Vince's quotably bad-natured agent...
What drove Dave Chappelle from the set of his sketch show is the same thing that makes it distinctive: his intense involvement. A roomful of writers would have eased the load but blunted his voice and disconcerting racial humor. We don't know what will happen to Chappelle, but his comedy won't fade away...
Before Denis Leary was a fire fighter on FX, he was a cop on ABC. The 19 episodes of The Job fall further on the "-edy" side of dramedy than those of Rescue Me, but their gallows humor is much the same. As Mike McNeil, a boozing, cough-syrup-guzzling, philandering detective, Leary charms through sheer insolence...
This tart, eccentric hour has aged better than the WB's more dour soaps (Smallville, One Tree Hill) because it has a sense of humor-from the oddball townsfolk of Stars Hollow to the snappy, never sappy dialogue. Girls may look like a drama, but it plays like a romantic comedy. And yet the most central love story is neither the entanglements of single mom Lorelai (Lauren Graham) nor of her brainy offspring Rory (Alexis Bledel). It's the one between the two of them: sharp, witty and highly caffeinated, they're Tracy and Hepburn as mother and daughter...