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...looking at old porn: you can't expect people who had body hair and no Pilates to seem hot now. But if you give yourself a chance to settle into it, as any good New Yorker reader trained on 5,000-word stories about ketchup would, you start to laugh at even the 1925 section of The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker. The rhythms might be slower, the references outdated and the attitude more restrained, but funny, it turns out, stays funny. Old porn, it turns out, also gets funny...
...real proof that humor is immutable isn't that you still shamefully laugh at a 1972 cartoon in which a Chinese warrior says, "That banquet was most delicious, and yet now, somehow, once again I feel the pang of hunger." It's that every week Mankoff has to reject great submissions because the research department sends him typed index cards enumerating similar jokes made in New Yorker cartoons over the past 79 years. Seriously, people, let go of the deserted island...
...touch with more than 400 people on five continents in a meaningful way, one has to have a certain natural exuberance. "An uptight guy would not succeed at this job," says Pistons president Joe Dumars. "Tony will try every single food and drink. He'll smile. He'll laugh. He's easy to like." Ronzone was born bubbly, though he didn't take his act abroad until his college basketball career at Long Beach State ended, in 1988. At 6 ft. 2 in., he was too short to be an NBA prospect, so Ronzone played in leagues from Italy...
...create the next big thing? Well, yes. But it just so happens that this project was first hatched by the U.S. government. And the agency that licensed the technology to Emery is one of the most wide-ranging and innovative laboratories anywhere on the planet. Its name (don't laugh): the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). In its 50 years of existence, ARS has provided the genius behind a world of commercially successful products, including permanent-press cotton, Pringles, Lactaid and pretty much the entire frozen-food aisle...
...booster of comedies. "When you're worried the world is going to blow up, you want to escape and see something that's funny," she says. "That doesn't mean we're not going to make serious films, but we're living in nervous times, and people want to laugh." --By Jeffrey Ressner