Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sometimes people laugh because they know exactly what it is,” she says...
...just too weird. And he’s from Harvard so there’s hope for you. Tom ShillueStand-up comedianRR: Why did you become a stand-up comic? TS: I didn’t want to be. It was actually thrust upon me because people would laugh at me unexpectedly. I figured if nobody takes me seriously in life I might as well just switch professions.RR: What did you do before? TS: I was helping my dad run an ice cream store in Randolph Massachusetts. It’s on the blue collar side of Braintree...
Borat CELLULOID GOLD Makes me want to get up and cheer. Patton Oswalt—the funniest stand-up comedian in America—saw a preview screening of this and said that he made the projectionist stop midway through because he was laughing too hard. I don’t actually laugh at the trailer, I just marvel at it. It makes you forget about the inevitable pain that you’ll feel when you have to sit through the build-ups to the punchlines in the interviews. Just enough to entice, not so much as to disgust...
...kids in developing countries at the Harvard Concert Commission’s annual laugh-in. Before you can say “What happened to Wyclef?” you’ll slap your thighs to comedians Modi, Judah Friedlander, Tim Young, Tom Shillue, Marc Maron, and Paul Mecurio...
...Laugh tracking all the way to the bank, U.S. TV studios are counting on foreign sales to offset the losses they incur selling prime-time TV shows to the networks. While an hour of episodic TV typically costs $2.5 million to produce, studios usually recoup only 65% of the cost from networks, adding up to $45 million to $55 million in deficits each season. Syndication and foreign rights turn losers into winners. "If we didn't have international sales, no studio could afford to produce those shows," says 20th Century Fox's Newman. "They're critical...