Word: jokingness
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Even in his own country, Ayckbourn has never received the critical respect accorded contemporaries like Tom Stoppard and David Hare. They write "important" plays about political issues or world-famous physicists or 19th century Russian philosophers. Ayckbourn's realm is smaller and more familiar - the domestic and romantic predicaments of...
I was surprised. He's 21 years old. The guy is young. And he's always joking, playing, never taking anything too seriously. You've gotta have fun. Obviously, people have just never seen anyone win by such a margin, or celebrate like that in the 100. When people run...
Back when he was trying to be the Bill O'Reilly of the left, ranting as a host on Air America and writing books like Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, Franken didn't have to modulate his personality. Now he has cut way back on...
Obama had just come off the other side of a comedy controversy, after Bernie Mac went to an Obama event and told dirty jokes (a.k.a. what Bernie Mac does for a living). Comics Randi Rhodes and Penn Jillette took heat for nasty jokes about Hillary Clinton; John McCain, for joking...
Mohammed, who wore a full gray and black beard, turban, white robes and owlish horn-rimmed glasses, was clearly the leader of the five, seated at the front of the courtroom alongside his defense lawyers. Throughout the morning session, he conversed animatedly with his fellow defendants, Mohammad bin Attash, Ramzi...