Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Eastern second-generation immigrant who has become completely Americanized in the Beverly Hills mold. Weitz knows he’s being ridiculous (or at least, one hopes he does), but in this self-conscious political incorrectness lies the movies marvelous humor. If you aren’t afraid to laugh at yourself, this is a movie not to be missed. Bottom Line: This light, funny satire works because it doesn’t take its own criticisms too seriously.—Reviewer Dina Guzovsky can be reached at dguzovsk@fas.harvard.edu...
...comedy, the three emerge on to Mass Ave. and go their separate ways. Get it? Get it? Okay, that bombed. But it wasn’t meant to be humorous—just true.For, while many Harvard students may make witty comments in section, few choose to share the laughs with an audience. Even fewer engage in solo stand-up performance.Yet there’s a longstanding tradition of Harvard humor. Just look at the Lampoon, which has been supplying Hollywood with comedy writers for years. Or Conan O’Brien ’85, mentor to a generation...
...think. People aren’t entirely sure whether the film is mocking the project or taking it seriously—which is intentional. I don’t want to tell people what to think. There’s a huge range of responses as to what people laugh at. I like the idea of finding humor in a foreign culture. It becomes much more real to you when that happens. It’s a basic humanist idea. THC: Which of the Afghani students inspired you the most? LM: I had the strongest connection to Palwasha, the young...
...Hicks. A dry sense of humor helps. On a walkabout in Scotland, one person told her, "You look just like the Queen!" "How reassuring," she replied. When a visiting head of state managed to slip out of Buckingham Palace overnight, she quipped: "Has he taken his wife?" She can laugh at herself too, as when a new footman pulled back her chair as she stood up after a family dinner, but then immediately went to sit down again to continue a conversation and hit the floor. The whole family found this uproarious (but she also made sure to reassure...
...Reisman, a freshman at Kenyon, joined Two Drink Minimum during orientation week because he had performed stand-up in high school."I met a lot of people who I had something in common with through the group," says Reisman, 19. They all know the value of a good laugh...