Word: jokes
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...This year's show, however, was pretty soundly entertainment-free, ranging from the dutifully tasteful (tributes to John Ritter, Bob Hope and sundry others) to the weirdly tasteless (an old-age joke, directed at Doris Roberts, from Damon Wayans, who will be lucky if anyone is watching him on TV five years from now, let alone fifty). That's where I draw the line: you can give out statuettes to Edie Falco until the end of time, but you'd better make me laugh on the way there. Herewith, a few suggestions for next time...
...Forget the movie stars. The Emmys for guest-star roles and for supporting roles in movies and miniseries are an annual joke: they're simply about seeing what movie actors happened to be on TV last year and thanking them for lowering themselves. (Attention Emmy voters: Juliette Lewis has not been a movie star since 1994.) The same went for this year's best miniseries award, which went to the mediocre Steven Spielberg Presents: Taken. Emmy voters, you can bet, got as far as reading "Steven Spielberg Pre--" before deciding that...
...could tell you the truth about the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but the authorities might arrest us for spying." Ho Thi Van throws back her wrinkled face and cackles at her own joke. It remains one of the most mysterious byways on earth, but Van and her husband, Phan Huu Luc, have a unique view of the Ho Chi Minh Trail: they've lived on it for more than 30 years. Luc spent three of them in backbreaking labor, carrying ammunition and rice to North Vietnamese troops as American bombs rained down. "It was a hard job," says...
Monty Python was British comedy's answer to the Beatles: the Fab Six who broke the mold, broke records, broke America and were idolized by kids who learned by heart every routine from the Flying Circus television show - and knew their parents would never get the joke. The Pythons were rock 'n' roll. So writing a definitive, collective autobiography to set the record straight - just as the Beatles did in their Anthology - is no act of hubris. And for all those now-grownup kids who still beg them to re-form and do the dead-parrot sketch one more time...
...your Core requirements after you’ve set your concentration—why load up on Core classes your first year at Harvard when you have the unique chance to explore? Don’t be fooled by professors who parade the stage with bravado and with a joke at every turn. Once Siegfried and Roy pack up the show, you’ll still be left with the reading, exams and papers that will define the course. And despair not if economics or government is your calling. Those who wind up in large concentrations find ways...