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...thing I was going to ask you about. You are very hard on yourself. You call your feet hooves. You call your breasts flop bags. Don't you think you're being too hard on yourself? No. I'm having fun. I think it's so much better to laugh about things than to pretend that it isn't happening. I am painfully aware of what's going on with my body. There's so much going on that's good in my life that it's the price you pay. There's another story in the book, when...
...hilarious! Where does your humor come from? Chee Lee, MINNEAPOLIS I don't know. I think it was natural born. I just love to make people laugh. I love to create new action with comedy together. Just myself, happy-go-lucky...
...used to cut their teeth on R-rated horror movies; it was a genre that allowed them to show their skills of cinematic technique and audience manipulation (get 'em to scream). But with Apatovian buddy farce currently triumphant, more tyros are turning to R-rated comedy (get 'em to laugh). Here timing, not technique, is required: creating a vibe, working with actors, building a scene, knowing the audience. It's less like movie auteuring than like staging a play, but that's all right. Every film comedy needs a director, and these days there's a slew of comedies...
...salutary rudeness and its flashes of male nudity that few will find erotic, Observe and Report eventually chickens out. The apparently unbreakable rule of modern comedy is that audiences not only have to laugh while they're watching it, they must also leave with a smile, a glow that tells them all's right with the world, until they get back into the world. You can't have the cleansing anarchy and bile of classical comedy; that might sow sullen word of mouth and reduce the box-office revenue by a few dollars...
...humor that doesn't assuage but assaults. If we can get it on The Daily Show, which truly does observe and report, we ought to see it once in a while on the big screen. Comedies of the '70s turned the trick, but the people running the Hollywood laugh factory don't even try. Why'd you stop, malefactors...