Word: jokes
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...Angeles. After struggling as a comic, using the stage name Jack Roy, he left the business for 12 years and sold aluminum siding. But he made a comeback in his 40s, with a new name and a new catchphrase: "I don't get no respect." An energetic joke writer - he would sometimes jot them down on cardboard from his laundered shirts - he got his first big break with a spot on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1967. To avoid going on the road and leaving his children, he borrowed money and opened Dangerfield's club in New York City...
...lovely friend,” Freedman said. “She used to joke and laugh all the time...
...early '80s, Chandler had taken over, and the speaker was in on the joke. "Now everyone does shtick, so you see this wiseguy attitude. They're giving you their philosophy through humor," says Mankoff. In a 2002 cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan, who wrote for Seinfeld, a wife exiting a movie theater says to her husband, "I liked it except for you." Says Mankoff: "It's a Seinfeld line. That person realizes she is funny." Jokes today are also less visual and far more newsy than they were 40 years ago, when cartoonists could not expect news events to enter...
...students think the [council] is just a monkey with a blockbuster card,” Terry said. “But with Allston and the curricular review, this is not a joke anymore...
...same might be said of Huckabees. Beneath a veneer of pseudo-intellectualism, the movie is, at heart, a joke. The plot seems to unfold in a parallel universe, a world where every citizen is required to take a college survey course in philosophy and then spend the rest of their lives discussing it. Mark Wahlberg, as a nihilist firefighter, is introduced having a fight with his girlfriend; instead of bickering over who did or didn’t do the dishes, he is trying to convince her that life is meaningless...