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...every vein of showmanship in the works. Riding a bicycle while holding crutches, or squatting nearly naked and spitting out whole paragraphs in a long breath, he's a veritable Cirque de Solo. Even on his deathbed (in the Malone Dies section), the McGovern-Beckett character finds much to laugh about, though his smile is a rictus...
...cracked mirror to humanity and saw the humanity in it. We're pitiable creatures, no doubt, and birth is just the first step toward death, but funny in our cruelties and yearnings. At least that's what this Beckett fan thought at the end of the Gate marathon, Laugh? I thought...
...into New York Harbor and sees the Statue of Liberty as Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade" plays on the sound track. He glimpses some Hassidic Jews on the deck below him, and the Statue morphs into a heavy-set actress he knew back home. She lets out a ribald laugh - just the reaction Chahine so often wanted from his audiences when they were faced with the historical and emotional collisions of life in the modern world...
...achieve that succulent victory, Step Brothers says, is by singing the Andrea Bocelli Por Ti Volare, accompanied by a drum solo. Even a grump has to admit it. That made me laugh...
...shock, offend, liberate. Stern's gross-out radio act, like his book, is all about saying the unsayable -- at least, within the limits of what the FCC will allow a station to broadcast and still keep its license. Beavis and Butt-Head, with their geeky irresponsibility and maddening Neanderthal laugh, are adolescent ids running wild, doing everything parents tell you not to -- picking their noses, torturing pets, playing with matches. Political correctness, once the province of a small band of liberal reformers, has been around long enough to become Establishment orthodoxy -- which means it is fair game for satire...