Ariel, Prospero's faithful sprite (Erin Colleen), has become female, which allows her to make an amusing remark about Disney's stealing her name for a mermaid.
It sure beats, "May I speak with Mr. Rejection?" Defensiveness melts like butter in the face of an amusing remark.
On gender, Hartman told us, "I have gotten a certain expression by complimenting or making an amusing remark so that my very famous subjects would let down their guard.
Except that it's not all that funny, the singer profiting from the tendency of audiences to respond over-generously to any slightly amusing onstage remark a musician might vouchsafe.
He specialized in creating a literal and conversational haze and then finding his way toward a story, usually couched in some amusing, self-deprecating remarks.
This salty, autobiographical reminiscence, marinated in gin, may be the ultimate example of amusing after-dinner remarks, sprinkled with songs and a few dance steps, that transcend the occasion.
But on the other, they also looked and acted a little like they'd wandered in from a discarded Quentin Tarantino B movie … Still at least Bronn and Jaime's big adventure is proving as entertaining as promised, filled with snide remarks, amusing theories of life, and charisma to spare.
After unleashing this extremely disturbing conversation, Betty smiled broadly, as if she'd just made a few amusing, slightly barbed remarks.
I found that second remark amusing at first – yet the more I thought about it, the more I worried about the suggestion that a book for women might somehow be less worthwhile.
This is more interesting, though less amusing, than his remark - which was intended to be heard by the posh women seated nearby - that he wanted to be buggered by Colonel Gadafy.
