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...song, the two end up playing with toy cars on top of the dining room table. They finish off their dream date with the scantily-clad Mariah playing laser tag and frisbee. This attempt at comedy enters into a realm of ridiculousness that falls closer to horror than humor. —Melanie E. Long
...book's absence of a singular, cohesive revelation won't stop you from enjoying its vignettes of Indian traffic or the cozy London pub, however. Weiner's travel writing delivers nourishing moments of humor and lucidity. (Travel, he reminds us, comes from the French word travail, or work, a thing that was for centuries relegated to unlucky pilgrims, nomads and soldiers who were forced to wander.) Sardonic observation is his particular gift. In the capital of Moldova - among the least happy places in the world according to the WDH - he walks past a couple of cops who "like all Moldovan...
...because the thing that makes a great comedy writer is having an informed point of view. I find the most interesting people, even that we were hiring at The Daily Show, came from backgrounds of academia or journalism. They weren’t people that came up through college humor magazines or who had just studied exclusively improv. It was people who were like: ‘I was a molecular biology major and then went to Phillipines and did work-study.’ That informs your point of view so much more than just being really well-versed...
...Harvard Lampoon—Finally something newsworthy from the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...don’t sit down and think, “Let me invent some story that’s gonna put people in a bad mood”...I’m trying to depict the range of experience in everyday life, so sometimes there’s humor and happiness, and sometimes there’s struggle.THC: You emerged from the underground comic scene and have your own devoted group of readers but also are among the few who have been accepted into the main stream. Do you feel any conflict between the two?AT: It?...