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Neil Simon, in his best works, takes domestic and daily interactions and places the audience at one remove from them, in such a way that we can laugh at the recognizable eccentricities and silliness that make up life...
...Says Jack O'Brien, who directed the revival and revamped the book with Abbott: "He is absolutely astonishing on structure. When he suggested blowing up Lola, I thought we hadn't built up to it. A while later, he suggested it again and said, 'It'll get a big laugh.' It does...
...single, essential difference separates human beings from other animals -- but that hasn't stopped the phrasemakers from trying to find one. They have described humans as the animals who make tools, or reason, or use fire, or laugh, or any one of a dozen other appealing oversimplifications. Here's one more description for the list, as good as any other: Humans are the animals who wonder, intensely and endlessly, about their origin. Starting with a Neanderthal skeleton unearthed in Germany in 1856, archaeologists and anthropologists have sweated mightily over excavations in Africa, Europe and Asia, trying to find fossil evidence...
...perhaps Schami has the last laugh. He knows just what he is doing. As he says, "Lies and spices are brothers and sisters. Lies turn any bland fare into a piquant delicacy. The truth and nothing but the truth is something only a judge wants to hear." He fibs about Syria; he shamelessly serves up his heritage, re-seasoned for Western palates while still claiming authenticity, and passes his work off as a critical development in fiction. To quote the blurb on the back cover: "Slyly oblivious to the Western cartographies of narrative art and faithful only to the oral...
Ironic distance is no longer an excuse for anything anymore, Have you noticed how many ads these days ask you to laugh with them at the images they present? Or all the shows which make the most of their banal material by offering hosts who find the stuff as stupid as you do? Videos are sexist and dumb, but we can sit with Beavis and Butthead and laugh at them instead of suffering the indignity of actually just watching them. Old b-movies are silly, but on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" we can sit with some robots and have...