Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writers, (Lorrie Moore is one exception) can recapture the painful essence of a bad joke...
...running joke," says Seo, who has played since the fall of her first year. "There are a lot of ex-cheerleaders on the team. Myrza was captain of the cheerleading squad in high school, and a basketball cheerleader her first year at Harvard. I just did it up to junior year...
Dalton prides itself on producing community-oriented students who aren't afraid to speak their minds, and the campus has a nerdy sort of earnestness about it. On a recent weekday, a visitor could watch the student government debate the senior class's annual joke resolution with the tenscity of the U.S. Senate discussing health care reform. (Among other things, the proposal called for Dalton's first-year student to "refer to any area where a group of seniors has gathered as Mt. Olympus...
...opens the morning's edition of the New York Times and begins reading headlines of the day, complete with quips and off-the-cuff observations. A scorecard at the end of the first five minutes shows that exactly one joke was funny. To look at all the gray-haired ladies splitting their sides with laughter, however, makes one wonder if maybe his humor is an adult thing, like knowing how to fill out a tax form. Mort Sahl's audience loves...
...comic's advantage to have, as he declares, "No Values." Hearing him attack both conservatives and liberals with equal glee, however, sets one on edge. The lack of moral center ultimately distracts. How can he be funny if I can't figure out which angle this joke came from? The same Jewish joke told by a rabbi and by the Grand Wizard of the KKK has different connotations...