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Humor can oft be a palliative for grief, and the show brought plenty of laughter. “The Pat and Jerry Show,” with Richard Snee and Will LeBow, satirized an infamous conversation between television evangelists Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, who blamed the terrorist attacks on the American Civil Liberties Union and the pro-gay and pro-choice movements. Although questionably tasteful at best, the skit and song elicited laughter from the audience. In some ways, taking it to such extremes helped to deal calmly with the irrational prejudices that have emerged since the attack; outrage...
...motivate students, we usually tell them to pretend that this job market is the worst in years. Well, this year, you won’t have to pretend.” Murray then let out a light chuckle, as if to intimate that she was half-joking. Her laughter was not contagious...
...some really funny moments—I respect any comedy that’s willing to kill off likeable minor characters and still expect you to laugh (see The Big Lebowski). Zoolander is just enough to inspire ambient tittering, unfortunately, the humor only crests into real, memorable laughter about a dozen times throughout the film. If that sounds like a fair trade to you, head to the cineplex and get in line...
Derrah acts the clown who knows what sadness is but refuses to be overwhelmed by it. He is not convinced that laughter is a medicine, but he knows that it’s at least a salve. It is something to help navigate through a terrible world, even if cannot make it better...
...common thread linking Fo’s diverse creations, however, is a deeply serious core. Fo is not the type to elicit laughter that doesn’t also hurt on some level. The subjects he chooses to explore are those that even the most earnest and high-minded dramatists would be wary to bring on stage; the violence of the extreme right, worker uprisings, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...