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...they rely on the element of surprise to startle unsuspecting crowds. "If a joke is set up properly, and detonates properly," says Irish comedian Abie Philbin Bowman, the effect is revelatory: "If you and your audience see something in a new way, and the explosion is joy and laughter, that's the most rewarding thing in the world, apart from...
...resentful that Bush is hijacking the language of Jesus to do these awful things," he says. "I'm fairly sure that telling jokes about God isn't as blasphemous as torturing his children." For an age-of-terror comic like Bowman, the best jokes make for nervous laughter...
...feel angry,” he said. “But I think that by dealing with this, we can rediscover what makes our community.” Meyers was an integral part of the Harvard Jewish community, his friends said. In between moments of tears and laughter, Meyers’ friends called him a “righteous person” who had taken to studying the Jewish faith—albeit in a “quirky” way. Meyers would study Jewish texts sporadically, according to his friends, as he closely examined the etymology of individual...
Both tears and laughter accompanied the anecdotes shared by Meyers’ family and friends...
Amazed at Jenny’s betrayal, I endured a good 10 minutes of laughter and ridicule before I realized I had constructed his entire name poem in my mind. Having completed that task jolted me awake, and I realized it was probably foolish to just stand there taking it. I got on my bike and rolled away, hoping that my four wheels would carry me faster than they usually...