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...Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life and, on the Internet, The Tyler Perry Show. All of which make him the most successful "unknown" conglomerate in show business. If official culture takes little notice of Perry, that's O.K. with him. He can laugh all the way to the altar and the bank...
Actually, blend is the wrong word. Perry's shows are contradictorily and simultaneously rude, forgiving, uplifting, demeaning. Comedy will get churning wildly, then stop in its tracks for a confession of spousal or child abuse. Laugh-cry, empathize-criticize: the mood changes so rapidly in these anachronistic exhibitions that they can seem defiantly postmodern...
...laugh out loud when I read that "the continent's rebirth is the Bush Administration's greatest achievement." Is that the continent where there has been war after war in the past eight years, perhaps hundreds of thousands have been killed in Darfur, Kenya has been destabilized and the U.S. would not fund the distribution of condoms as the cheapest way to fight aids? Most of the poverty-fighting in Africa has been done by private citizens or organizations for which Bush cannot take credit. Later in the article, Geldof got to the real reason the U.S. is interested...
...that's sometimes how the rules are here. And if you imagine yourself in that [scenario], it becomes a lot easier to understand how things work here ... You know it's dangerous here, but you kind of take a dark sense of humor toward it, and just try to laugh off some things...
...they are a family. It is good because it is better than an [insurgent] group using it. So the family is moving because they thought that the situation is getting a little bit better and they are moving the furniture that we have out. So I was laughing, like, "Mom, are you kidding me? The whole country is ruined and you are thinking about your dinner table?" [laughs]. You have to laugh at these things and don't take anything seriously because if you do you will not be able to live?it's weird how you feel about it. Sometimes...