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What happens to a joke deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it fester in your mouth, reminding you that the gift of a great comedic mind comes with a curse: your friends, your family, and most people in the world will never be able to make you laugh? If you’re one of the funniest men alive, does it frustrate you when you shoot off a quip to the grocery-store checkout lady, and it goes over her head...
...pays you to do the movie,” Rock says at one point. “They pay you to sell the movie.” Sure enough, Rock did his duty on this particular call—selling the merits of the movie, sliding in a joke here and there, and walking away to enjoy his figurative Mountain...
...father has a joke,” Flynn began. “‘South Boston High was the best seven years of my life.’ I wish I could say that about Harvard...
David L. Golding ’08 posted a message to the facebook group’s website that he was in so much pain he worried he might have herpes. Golding later said this was a joke, but the pain was real...
...Skrenta Jr., an 18-year-old Northwestern University student, wrote a virus program called Cloner. Every 30th time a disk containing the program is used, the virus harmlessly flashes a few verses across the screen; then the interrupted task resumes where it left off. "I wrote it as a joke to see how far it would spread," says Skrenta. "But it's easy for a malicious mind to change or add a few lines and turn a harmless toy into a vicious tool...