But despite the trappings of celebrity, the couple are as earnest as they are showy.
"I hope you're having fun," he told the audience, as earnest as he can sound.
11 world, the questions are as earnest as they are frenzied: Can you make me safe?
As for human relations, he is as earnest as it gets.
'That's all I want to be,' she tells me, as earnest as a photo story in Jackie.
The result is an updated "Family of Man," just as earnest as the original but rather less optimistic and only slightly more relevant.
After the initial period of fame, he let loose with social messages, not as heavy-handed or as earnest as R.E.M.'s, but carefully aimed.
But for #CancelColbert, Twitchy became as earnest as an Occupy Wall Street general assembly, curating Tweets about racist "othering," transphobia, fat shaming, cis privilege, bullying, and triggering.
You will hear, "I love you, mom" in a voice, that although deeper, is as earnest as it was decades earlier.
As earnest young gentrifiers, we helped take the 1910 building co-op in 1981.
As earnest Americans, they didn't intend to be funny but you couldn't help but laugh.
