Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is just the writer, Brian Helgeland, and the director, Richard Donner, having their little misleading joke. For we soon see that underneath the crazy bluster, there is a certain woozy sweetness about Jerry, something suggesting that he is in occasional touch with rationality. Alice (Julia Roberts), the Justice Department attorney he's spying on, notices it too. She's uncommonly patient on the several occasions when he bursts out of the shadows and intrudes on her otherwise orderly life, babbling--well, yes--Conspiracy Theory...
Neither host is an expert interviewer, and Spencer can be particularly awkward, but both are fairly relaxed and pleasant presences. Each has his mildly funny moments, mining the same vein of racial humor. Spencer's joke about his show in his first monologue--"How often can a brother go into a million homes without getting arrested?"--is typical. Wayans does more comedy bits than Spencer, and while not overly original, his overdubbing of a Japanese martial-arts film with hip-hop dialogue and singing was amusing. Nothing he has done so far, though, is nearly as clever as the best...
...when Goose (Eric Amblad) runs into his best friend Tom-Tom (Michael Lopez-Saenz). The two cuss at each other, gleefully plan to use their new guns on someone, and discuss how Goose thinks he's a frog and Tom-Tom fears he's haunted by witches. They also joke about kidnapping Bingo's sister so Goose can have sex with her. Enter Loraine (Jordanna Brodsky), Tom-Tom's petite and insane lover who has both men so wrapped around her fingers that they let her put pins into their voodoo dolls' arms to prove their manliness to her. Later...
...behind this lies something even edgier and more discomfiting, a connection between the amazing economy and the sick joke: the attitude that if this rising tide doesn't lift your boat, you must be one hell of a loser...
...Queens. There is clearly no other way on or off the island except this bus. And because a construction worker in the middle of the bus has started staring at me, shouting down the bus that I look like "a million dollars, from Texas," I try to make a joke out of my presence, explaining that I used to live in NY but have been out of town long enough that I don't seem to be able to find my way around anymore. Why, last time I visited, I even had to ask for directions in my own neighborhood...