Word: humors
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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...
...early features, Bring It On and Down with Love, were in-your-face comedies with a Pop art design scheme; they aimed to get to endearing by going through aggressive. Reed found a subtler tone in his Vince Vaughn-Jennifer Aniston hit The Break-Up, in which both the humor and the despair rose from domestic behavior that, if exaggerated for dramatic effect, was still recognizable. Yes Man straddles those two styles. It ambles along, Judd Apatow-style (and includes a fellatio gag that should have earned the movie an R rating) while affording Carrey a few opportunities...
...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...
...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...