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...fault lines. And there's no one he won't take to task: last season his HBO talk show featured a parody instructional video, How Not to Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police. "Follow these easy tips," Rock said. "First, obey the law!" Rock knows the most cathartic laughter springs from a masochistic impulse. (Sadistic laughter, on the other hand, is the junk food of mirth.) Bring the pain--please...
...there’s one thing you learn it is that introductions of your boss always sound like flattery,” Nye joked. But in the end, Nye said to laughter that “like anyone, Larry, you’ll only get ten minutes...
...Larry Harmon, an early Bozo who bought the rights to the character in 1956, for years promoted himself as Bozo's creator, until Livingston and others exposed this as revisionist clown history. The embarrassed International Clown Hall of Fame even took down Harmon's plaque for a Lifetime of Laughter Achievement Award when it learned of the deception. Harmon, 76, sidesteps questions about Bozo's origins, but he still owns the rights and says he's eager to repackage the character for future TV, movie and theme-park deals. "Bozo never lost his fun or innocence," says Harmon. "Anything that...
...WHEN YOU'RE SMILING Traces laughter from animal behavior to human language. Oddity: A 1962 laughing epidemic in an African village...
...monks are back, however. Novices are again memorizing texts and scriptures, and their playful giggles are once more heard in the courtyard?we stood in silence, but then laughter erupts from one corner as a group of monks who had locked themselves out of the kitchen heave the smallest boy onto their shoulders to wiggle through an open window and unlock the door from the inside. Senior monks, too, have returned to their retreats, spending days, months and years in dark solitude, sustained only by food slipped into their cold rooms. Unlike the Summer Palace in Lhasa, where...