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Appropriately, we are (almost) never asked to laugh at anyone who succeeded in killing a president. But several failed attempts give fodder for the more humorous scenes in the show, allowing us to laugh only in the comfort of knowing that Ford and Nixon survived. While they are never without a serious subtext, several scenes are highly comic. The two scenes leading up to Fromme and Moore’s attempts on Ford are priceless, delivered with impeccable timing and grooviness by bell-bottom-and-love-bead clad Goldin and Gaffney...
Despite this one weakness, The Rotters’ Club is a fun and informative read, capable of both making the reader laugh and of delivering profound statements. In many instances, the novel serves as a light satire of British institutions, gently poking fun at their interesting idiosyncrasies. A particularly funny example of this is a classroom scene in which a student asks the teacher if a poet whom the class is studying is gay. After berating the student, accusing him of having a “grubby and ultimately rather banal little mind” and insisting that...
...left unspecified, and a general celebration of mindless bimbo-dom. It should be immediate cause for concern that the credits see a direct re-play of all the “funniest” moments in the film, as if we need to be reminded of each and every laugh...
...show and people constantly remark, “You guys look like you’re having a great time.” It’s like watching football in the family room on Sundays where everybody gets a chance to weigh in, and although they may get laughed at, it’s all in good fun. We laugh from the moment we get in that studio at 5 a.m. until 5 p.m. There’s nothing better. These guys are real professionals. Right now, I absolutely and thoroughly enjoy...
While I imagine Steorts is too young to remember much of the Clinton years, his assertion that the senate Democrats have done anything worse than Republican treatment of Clinton’s nominees fails the laugh test. Since assuming the majority eight months ago, senate Democrats have confirmed 35 district and 7 circuit court judges. By contrast, in 1996, senate Republicans confirmed just 17 judges, none of which were for the circuit courts. Moreover, the reason why Judge Ronnie White was the only Clinton nominee to be defeated by the Republican Congress was because 57 of Clinton?...