Word: joking
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...ended on a high note. The Federalist Party ended on a low one. It carried a new taint: defeatism and treason. The last Federalist presidential candidate ran in 1816, carrying only three states. Federalism became a political cussword; decades later, a young Abraham Lincoln would joke that his enemies accused...
What keeps Ferrell on the mainstream side of the Andy Kaufman line is that the audience is rarely the butt of the joke. Even in Talladega Nights--in which he plays a moronic, Southern-accented titan of the NASCAR circuit--the joke isn't that people follow racing or idolize a doofus but that Ricky Bobby is oblivious to everything around him. "It's easy to take a shot at people, set yourself aside from it and say, Hey, look how stupid everybody is," says Will Arnett, the former Arrested Development star who plays Poehler's brother and evil skating...
Director Steve Stockman’s new film, “Two Weeks,” is about as funny as a good joke at a funeral—although witty, the tragedy of the situation prevents true enjoyment. Anita Bergman, played by Sally Field, is a woman dying of ovarian cancer. Her children, as well as the audience, are immediately confronted with the harsh realities of such a terrifying illness. Bergman fits in nicely with the rest of Field’s oeuvre—emotional women on the brink of considerable change. There is no detail omitted...
...said she was sent twice a week to pick up checks from the mail drop. At first she did what she was told without asking questions. But gradually it began to occur to her that something was wrong. "We were our own little business," says Jackson. "We used to joke that all you had to do with a federal tax ID number was to think up a name, and then you could collect as much money as you wanted." Jackson also recalls seeing one of the people who worked in Gerber's office randomly downsizing pay slips for Marrogi...
...identified, says that during Anderson's three-year tenure at the school, it was an open secret that underperforming and/or problem students were pressured to leave or told they could not return after disciplinary suspensions. "We all saw the push-out going on," she recalls. "It was almost a joke. In front of the faculty of 150, Anderson would say 'get your attendances in. If the students have excessive absences, we can get rid of them and send them to the school of far, far away.'" The school of far, far away, she explains, was a euphemism for getting...