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...King of Queens.” I was very excited because I had always wondered what it would be like watch a show that was “filmed before a live studio audience.” I was namely curious about whether or not sitcoms use laugh tracks. They don’t…well at least not this one. In the audience there was a “fluffer”—a comedian who keeps the audience entertained between takes. The fluffer also passed out copious amounts of chocolate to increase our giddiness...
...It’s about me having the last laugh,” Reid says, sounding quite satisfied with the idea. “People from the Page Sixes who have messed with me, this is going to spin it back around at them. People might think a little bit more about things they want to write about...
...would anyone want to date her anyway? Unless you grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, would you really feel sorry for the well-off suburban girl who is forced to “descend” into the depravity of largely black urban Chicago? Nope. We’d laugh at you. Get some perspective. Also note that the “progressive” miscegenation narrative offered by the film is decidedly PG-13. Think Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts in The Pelican Brief with greater political pretension—not Spike...
Best way for a girl to get your attention: To smile and laugh...
...which is not at all cool, and activism, which is. Personal aspirations are in poor taste; grander aspirations ought not to be. The erosion of ambition leads all too easily to the erosion of idealism. Too often, the irony in which we are steeped turns corrosive. If you can laugh at anything that smacks of pretension—and, oh, we can—idealism becomes an early casualty. The solution is not to embrace personal ambition, which remains gauche, but instead to transfer it to a cause. We all have, or had, boundless ambition; that is how most...