Word: joking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...films are with exploiting the humor in the positively unimpressive masculinity of his male characters.While there’s nothing wrong with guys making movies for guys about guys, when I see women making movies that are about women but eschew whatever the female equivalent of a dick-joke is, I get a grin in the corner of my mouth. I get excited that there might be more than one acceptable way to make a comedy that stars same-sex actors as its leads and excited that the boys might get hip to the fact that there are other ways...
...rebuttal to Colbert, then or now, so he was simply not invited back and officially forgotten. Ever since, the dinner had been a far less newsworthy affair. As is tradition, the President stood to do a short stand-up act, which included the retelling of an old joke about Vice President Dick Cheney watching Bush through a peephole in the Oval Office door while masturbating. Such is the state of Washington humor...
...another point. Then he drew from his podium a conductor's baton and turned his back to the audience of reporters and their guests. The curtains parted, revealing the U.S. Marine Band, which Bush then pretended to conduct in a recitation of "Stars and Stripes Forever." Though unstated, the joke was apparently that we in the press corps had been given a brief respite from following rise and fall of the White House conductor's baton. For tonight, at least, Bush would manipulate another institution instead...
...bound to ensue: they'll be either the perpetrators or the near victims of systematic torture. That is the message of two new films that have virtually nothing else in common. Together, though, they speak volumes about how American movies address political horror stories: as a tragedy or a joke...
...humor had an oblique way about it,” he said. “He was not a one-liner joke kind of person. He would make little comments and asides that were just hilarious...