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...greeted at Moral Reasoning 62. iOh, you changed your hair...it looks, um, nice,i another friend commented over savory baked tofu. In the halls of the Science Center, a befuddled sophomore mused, iGee, didnit you used to have darker hair? Ok, then thatis what looks different.i Some people laugh when I tell these stories, but I think each reaction to my new look has been sweet in its own way. When people neglect to mention anything at all, it makes for one fewer explanation. When I hear the observant yet complimentary quotes of above, I appreciate the sensitivity...
...weirder techniques she encountered is ibutt glue,i which is used during the swimsuit competition at Miss America pageant. iI will not deny it. I have seen some rather scary uses of duct tape, but wouldnit subject myself to such pain,i she admits. iOn the other hand, laugh if you must, but if anyone reading this had to walk in front of three million people in a bathing suit, I know they would want to make absolutely certain that it stayed in one place. I think the preferred adhesive isnit really glue, but something called eFirm Grip.ii Emmy insists...
...thing is certain: time will be our greatest commodity. In the past 20 years, we have seen the pace of almost every aspect of life speed to dizzying proportions, and in the future attention spans will get shorter than we can imagine. The time it takes to make us laugh will thus be the true test of the most successful entertainer. Stand-up comedy, nearly extinct in the '90s, will have trouble surviving at all. The reason? No time to go to a club to hear a live human being tell jokes, or wait through 45 minutes of Late Night...
Though TV sitcoms already have an incredibly fast-paced, joke-every-3-sec. tempo, in the future that will seem to have an almost Shoah-like pace. One possibility is that story lines will be junked altogether to get straight to the laugh--since, as any sitcom producer will tell you, the same seven plots have merely been recycled endlessly since the beginning of television. Realizing that likable characters are the key to a TV comedy's success, the networks will establish new characters in 2- to 3-min. "mini-coms." Then, after viewer response is gauged via an Internet...
...that point there will be a new assessment of what is funny. And my bet is there will be a major rediscovery of the comedian Carrot Top. If there is one thing for sure in comedy, it's that props always get a laugh...