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...least favorite. Both creators frown, and Gondry objects that he thinks plenty of people liked his first film; Kaufman, meanwhile, volunteers that Human Nature is in fact the number one video rental in the country. Met with momentary befuddlement from even Gondry, Kaufman again gives the nod and half-laugh that indicates he is not, apparently, speaking genuinely...
...understand her completely. People who are not discerning are boring. They cannot mock, or laugh at others being mocked. These are not the people you invite to your parties...
...couldn’t imagine that she wouldn’t, couldn’t, rise again so we could dry her soaked jeans in the public bathroom or so I could walk her to the nurse’s office for Band-Aids. How could we not laugh about it later; how was it that she wouldn’t bashfully lean her head sideways and giggle nervously while the nurse applied antiseptic to her wounds...
...difference: Perelman went to live at the New Yorker; Geisel never got into that magazine, except in advertisements. Another difference: Perelman's early work, which burlesques either contemporary or antique topics that are unfamiliar to me, is a little too hip for my room. Geisel's makes me laugh. The stuff is timely and, standing the test of three-quarters of a century, timeless...
...speech, Phillips called those pivotal in the Bush administration “no talent preppies.” He said that without his father, George W. Bush would be the “second vice president of the second National Bank of Amarillo,” evoking a laugh from the audience...