Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When I got off the plane I resisted the temptation to make a joke about blood transfusions and headed straight for the hotel--the lovely Four Seasons, conveniently located between the business district and the adult entertainment zone. At the reception desk I was greeted, registered, and given my press materials, which I perused at my leisure in my well-appointed single...
...Danny LaJoie, sitting cross-legged on a street corner, a cup of loose change at his feet. From his back pocket, LaJoie pulls out a black-and-white postcard showing four drunks slumped against a building. It reads, "Greetings from Seattle . . . America's most livable city!" These days the joke just isn't the same...
...that, for Wilde, there was no crisis. The pampered, brilliant youth from Dublin set out to make his fortune by inspired conversation and the constant reshaping of himself. "My Irish accent was one of the many things I forgot at Oxford," he noted, characteristically telling the truth and a joke at the same moment...
True. Before long, Wilde's mannered dandyism was satirized in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, whose immediate success on both sides of the Atlantic earned the intended butt of the joke an invitation to lecture in the U.S. At that point, in late 1881, Wilde had published one slim volume of poems to generally hostile reviews. No matter. New York City newspapers were so avid for a glimpse of this exotic flower that they hired a launch to ferry reporters out to Wilde's ship the evening before its docking. The press discovered plenty to report: a large...
When historians write of this summitry between once glowering superpowers, they may decide that the sense of humor shared by the two leaders played as much a part as any other human quality. "He has a good sense of humor," Reagan declared. "I told him the speeding joke. The Soviet police were told to give tickets to speeders, no matter who they were. One day Gorbachev is late leaving home for the Kremlin, and he hurries to his car and tells the driver that he will drive to save time. So the driver sits in the backseat and Gorbachev takes...