Word: jokes
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...that at risk. Meanwhile, in America, the drumbeat grows louder for a shift in U.S. monetary policy, presaging higher borrowing costs. With the American economy surging at a 5.5% average annual rate since mid-2003 and employment finally on the rise, a 1% federal funds rate is a joke. A year ago, the Federal Reserve implemented an "emergency" policy stance in response to a full-blown deflation scare. That was the right thing to do at the time. But now the emergency is over, suggesting it's high time for the Fed to return interest rates to more normal settings...
BACK IN THE DAY, YOU KNEW LENNY BRUCE. AND TODAY YOU OCCASIONALLY APPEAR ON HOWARD STERN'S SHOW. DO YOU THINK THERE'S SUCH A THING AS CROSSING THE LINE IN COMEDY? I guess you can do that if you do an insulting ethnic joke or something like that. I work blue, very blue, you know. But I'm also working in Vegas for an all-adult audience. Sometimes I see parents walking out of the show with their kids who are, like, 10 years...
...long time, I had little or no interest in Superman for years," Austen says. "He was perfect--his powers left him with no vulnerability. So I requested DC allow some cosmetic changes--make him a bit less powerful, a lot more vulnerable physically." Austen's Superman can take a joke as well as a punch. He rags on his sparring partners for their lame trash talk: "What's next? 'Mindless cretin!' Or 'Had enough?' Or my personal favorite--'No one can stand before the might of--(your name here)." The tone is light and fresh and surprisingly funny. "Much...
...often joke that I’m the Johnny Appleseed of film studies programs,” Rodowick said with a laugh when reached at his home in Rennes, France. “It’s wonderful to get in on the ground floor, because one can really have some influence...
There is also the possibility that audiences may not exactly warm up to the artists themselves. “You’re going up against a certain stereotyped image,” says Wax. “I once heard a joke: ‘What’s the difference between a puppy and a singer-songwriter? Eventually the puppy stops whining.’ And that’s this idea out there of a singer-songwriter...