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...onstage, the Cramps were spectacular. Interior could stoke a crowd with writhing and pogo-ing that made Iggy Pop look like a folksinger, and when he opened his mouth to deadpan songs like "I Was a Teenage Werewolf," he could make the crowd laugh too. Perhaps the Cramps' most perfect performance was a 1978 concert at the Napa State Mental Hospital in California. "Somebody told me you people are crazy," Lux screamed from the stage, "but I'm not so sure about that...
...tiny screen could also revive genres. For a decade, sitcoms have struggled on big networks. But online, few offerings do as well as humor. Be it funnyordie.com or the faux Japanese talk series Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show, people want the tiny screen to make them laugh...
...residential houses are led by 12 academic couples, and there’s little interdisciplinary mixing among them. Kirkland House masters: both Romance Languages and Literatures. Lowell’s house masters: both Religion. Adams House masters Sean and Judith Palfrey: both doctors, both specializing in pediatrics. Sean Palfrey laughed at me when I asked him about love between disciplines, but he said there were definite advantages to a relationship with someone who really understands you. “I think it helped us in medical school,” he told me. “Out of 12 couples...
...wasn’t rehearsing a scene, I would be brainstorming with the director: adding this joke, fixing this joke, trying things out. Rehearsal was a really full day, and it kept you busy. It was a tough job, but it’s really rewarding to hear people laugh at jokes that you’ve written, and it never stops to surprise you. It’s always amazing when people laugh at jokes you wrote, especially those written very quickly at, like, two in the morning.THC: Are those the funniest ones?WBP: Sometimes they are! Jokes that...
...film based on such a simple concept—following several relationships with the most clichéd and common problems—“He’s Just Not That Into You” is surprisingly smart, touching, funny, and real. There are moments of genuine laugh-out-loud hilarity, and the film achieves it without resorting to crude jokes about sex or sexism. Even better, it resists the urge to end all of the subplots in happiness. Some of the characters change; some do not. Some relationships end predictably; the others take you so much...