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...love and a lot of my favorite joke writers tend to write about serious feelings and fears that they have,” Rich says. “If a joke isn’t emotionally honest, then I feel like it usually doesn’t make you laugh, so I try to write jokes that are personal and are emotional, because those are the kinds of jokes that I like to read.”While “Ant Farm” is a book of humor, it has some serious undertones and in some stories, Rich...
...characters in B.C., the Stone Age comic strip created in 1958 by Johnny Hart, made readers laugh by pondering naively the wonders of fire, stone and the wheel. (A prehistoric dictionary defines rock as "to cause something to swing or sway--by hitting them with it!") More controversial were the religious panels Hart occasionally drew after he converted to evangelical Christianity. A 2001 Easter strip of a menorah slowly transforming into a cross led several newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, to drop B.C. Hart, who told a reporter that "Jews and Muslims who don't accept Jesus will burn...
...faggot," Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Will & Grace helped mainstream the nonhostile gay joke for straight people. But all this reappropriation and blurring - distinguishing a good-natured "That's so gay!" from a homophobic one - has created a situation in which, when Richards went off on his Laugh Factory rant, it was possible to wonder if he was playing a character...
...response, Godelia sent a scathing e-mail subject-lined “Clearing my Name” to 25 undergraduates. Addressing Collins, Godelia asked, “Are you really my friend, Kam? You smile, laugh and appear genuine to my face and then, out of no where [sic], I am slapped in the face, with your blatantly inaccurate and irresponsible article...
...half by rapid eye movement,” he said. “It’s important to fully get both.” “Set your alarm for the final hour, and get up right away,” Lockley suggested, causing the students to laugh. In the end, he said, getting enough sleep is a matter of setting priorities, but there are also unavoidable obstacles to getting that full night’s rest. “We need to educate people to bring about institutional changes,” he said, adding that...