Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pudding characters are designed to be completely unbelievable. In no way can any character in the show be likened to any individual living or dead. The humor of the show derives from ludicrous characterizations at which the audience can laugh without feeling insulted. Edgar Foo Yung is such a character. He bears no resemblance to any Asian person past or present. He is designed to poke fun at an absurd 19th century stereotype. This is what the Mikado, which played this fall at the Agassiz, has been doing on a much larger scale for years. Both shows attempt to make...
...Richard's lap when she should sprawl. Her effort at a hard-boiled accent fails utterly. Though drinking steadily, she never allows presumably progressive tipsiness to impede her finicky, wooden speech patterns. Admittedly, the old-fashioned slang hampers Fillingham. "I'll blow you for a drink" gets a raucous laugh O'Neill never intended. Still, Fillingham could have surmounted that difficulty with a knowing smile. Instead, she looks embarassed at having said what she did. This whore sounds like a debutante: she just can't act tough...
...wave. "I like people to take us seriously," insisted Lead Singer Joey to TIME'S John Buckman. "It's no joke, no novelty act. We're not clowns." The nice thing about the Ramones is that one can take them seriously and have a good laugh at the same time. Tunes like Sheena Is a Punk Rocker and Rockaway Beach are feckless, speedy japes that play fast and loose with rock styles and traditions even as they pay tribute to them. Onstage, the boys look like aging incorrigibles, the bottom four students in the remedial class...
...Learn to laugh...
...humor of recognition, a humor that plays upon collective anxieties of a tribe like the Law School by depending on the mere mention of names associated with the collective experience. There is nothing intrinsically funny about "LSAT scores," "Langdell receptionist," or "Roberto Unger." These things make law students laugh the way an itch makes you scratch; it is closer in its workings to irritation than humor...