Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approaches comedy through the eyes of a vulnerable, naive persona, an innocent commenting on the world, But the real Emo is almost indistinguishable from his comic persona at first. He slips in a joke wherever possible, ponders each answer as though on another planet, and only then lets a small grain of truth slip...
Although Wu Hung did not think of himself as counterrevolutionary, his comments about the prevalence of Communist propaganda were considered dangerous by the government "I suggested we paint Chairman Mao quotations on the inside of our eyeglasses," Wu Hung recounts. "I paid too much for this kind of joke...
Fresno boldly disdains a laugh track, and if it were not for the network's tongue-in-cheek promos, a casual viewer might miss the joke. The cast plays it expertly deadpan, with only an occasional wink at the audience. Satiric jabs at specific soaps are few and relatively tame. The California wines of Falcon Crest have puckered into raisins. The Southern accents (in California?) have migrated from Dallas. Garr's drop-dead wardrobe and a female catfight are straight out of Dynasty. And when Tiffany searches for her father at a costume party, she assembles...
...They approached it from a humorous angle, based on last-minute sex," said U.T.'s Graef. "It seems to me that the deliveries we've made have not been emergency situations. Protection Connection is not a joke...
Everyone had to laugh. The builders of this joke-cow didn't really care if Columbia figured out a reason for the sacrifice. The rubble was there only to demonstrate that they had managed to have a good time in some mysterious way. And that's all that mattered...