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...imaginary companions may have an edge over their peers. They tend to have better verbal skills and are better at understanding other points of view, according to Taylor and Carlson. Earlier studies suggested that children with imaginary friends may have above-average IQs, be more creative and smile and laugh more on the playground than other kids. "Children with pretend friends are actually less shy and more sociable than children without them," says Taylor. "It's almost the opposite of what you might think...
...photos into her comics, lending them another layer of reality. And her tone is refreshingly caustic. Saibara's fictional characters are delinquents and outcasts, and her nonfiction characters, mostly her friends, family and herself, aren't much better. And yet Saibara's intimacy with the characters allows readers to laugh with the unsympathetic lot, not at them. "I grew up watching women get beat up by their drunken husbands, raising kids fathered by different men, never smiling a day in their lives," says Saibara, 40, whose father died of alcoholism...
...Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). "Previous ads addressed the animal cruelty behind fur, but people who still wear fur don't seem to care about animals," says PETA's Dan Mathews. "So we're playing to the insecurity of fashionistas. Thus the tag line, 'When you wear fur, people laugh at you, not with you.'" Of course, with Jerri, they kind of do both...
...when he read a magic book. He dubbed himself the Great Carsoni and quickly learned - or found within himself, the secrets of conjuring -misdirection, poise, timing, a commanding personality -which are also the secrets of standup comedy. His model was Jack Benny, the radio comedian. Benny could pull a laugh out of a sour audience with only a pause and a stare, which was pretty daring for an aural medium. Dick Cavett, who would later write for Carson and host his own talk show on ABC and PBS -and who at 13 saw Carson, then 23 and back from Navy...
...mannerisms: the wink, which could be mischievous or genially conspiratorial; the spasmodically shrugging shoulders, a la Bogart (one of Carson's favorite and most frequent guests, Don Rickles, said the other night, "I thought he was a football player and the pads were too high"); and the sharp, brittle laugh, which was less an expression of mirth than a cue to the audience that his current guest had passed the test. This ha-ha bark was humanized by proximity to the warmer, manly, practiced guffaw of his announcer, Ed McMahon. But that was Ed's job: the designated laugher...