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...comedic purposes—Payne used awesome over-the-top music to great comedic effect in Election—and that it would go away in a few minutes and a real score would kick in. But the music in Sideways isn’t part of a joke. It’s just bad music and there’s a lot of it in the movie. And that’s really sad and, indeed, makes you wonder if the mysterious cause of Miles’ depression is the shitty music following him around...
...album, Shh...Don’t Tell, Adam Sandler logs another entry in his collection of notoriously crude comedy albums, leaving caution and any semblance of political correctness to the wind. Despite the vulgarity and apparent immaturity of the tracks on this jam-packed album, which features thirteen joke sketches and seven innocuously amusing songs, you’ve got to give Sandler a morsel of credit for releasing a somewhat offensive string of impolite tracks in this day and age of FCC crackdown and Howard Stern censorship...
...move that really puts "Suspended in Language" beyond rote, educational biography is the very literary manner in which Ottaviani has centered the book on a theme of the power of language. The title becomes the key. At first it seems a small joke in reference to Bohr's logorrheaic writings, whose impenetrability became legendary. But gradually Ottaviani builds on Bohr's relationship with language. Near the end, the authors take a bold leap beyond the "fourth wall," using the comic language itself as the embodiment of Bohr's ideas. In a breathtaking moment, Bohr points to the gutter between panels...
Slowly becoming a local legend, Four Eyes Joke Shop focuses on the amusing, perverse and possibly grotesque—think cross-dressing Marilyn Monroe or Can-Can Girls. “Our slant is not fright, it’s funny,” says manager Valerie Pontbriand. While costumes such as “Hot Shit,” “Holy Shit” and “Crock of Shit” and a selection of over 10,000 accessories draw people to the shop, it is the energetic and amused attitude of its employees that...
...signs, and silliness being sold to promote Presidential candidates? While the right likes to brag about its decisiveness, its manliness, and the fact that it is “always right”, the left likes to flaunt its intellectual superiority and is always ready for a crass sexual joke. The decision rests with the shoppers...