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...Cambridge courthouse. Opponents of same-sex unions warn that Massachusetts’ law will undermine the sanctity of marriage. But the Facebook has already thrown sanctity out the window. Chauhan and Bray say they are best friends, and that they use their relationship-status designation on Facebook as a joke. “Girls especially like to publicly declare who their best friends are,” Chauhan said. “I am in a relationship, and I’d rather write down who my best friend is.” In fact, most Harvard Facebook users would...
...dancing. The performers’ unsteady, and sometimes downright clumsy, skating resulted in several Chaplin-esque pratfalls, but these “mistakes” only added to the musical’s antic energy. Of the evening’s innumerable gags and spoofs the only joke to fall flat was the ironic moment of silence the cast held for America’s soldiers in Iraq. The joke’s blatant offensiveness inspired uncomfortable laughter initially, but as the moment of silence dragged on past the two minute mark the crowd settled into an unpleasant funk. Luckily...
...conscious of his success - perhaps too conscious. In a corner of his Moscow office, perched beneath a painting of a businessman fondling his half-naked secretary, is an open silver attaché case containing wads of U.S. $100 bills in packs of $10,000. It's meant as a joke, poking fun at perceptions of Russian businessmen as big-spending bandits. After the 1998 crisis, Chichvarkin says Euroset's focus was on low prices. But now that Russians have more money, the firm is focusing on branding and store location. Most employees work entirely on a commission basis...
...campaigning: in both venues, the speaker needs to charm his listeners and stir them to applause (the manual version of voting). Franken is a serious guy with irresistible comic impulses. The tummler in him can?t understand why a top politico would advise him not to tell his favorite joke - one by Buddy Hackett, about a penis growing out of a man?s forehead - on the campaign trail...
...thin, it's shallow, it dates easily, it rarely feels larger than the thing it's making fun of. A case in point would be Gary Shteyngart's first novel, The Russian Debutante's Handbook, a charming-enough outing about expatriates in Prague that has approximately one joke that gets steadily less funny over time. An exception would be Shteyngart's second book, Absurdistan (Random House; 352 pages), a satire that is profoundly funny, genuinely moving and wholly lovable...