"It's about joy, hope, virtue, nobility, words that have become corny, but are great qualities.
Neshat explained to Parsipur that she had cut a main character, Mahdokht, from the movie, because "it was so easy for it to become corny".
He was unemployed for months, but then ABC called him and asked him if he would become Corny the Clown on an afternoon children's program called "Time for Fun".
He made a very personal statement playing a seemingly clapped-out but nonetheless proud showbiz survivor in The Singer (2006), in which his character offered the insight: "People become corny when they last".
Although now a little outdated, the figure at the centre of the action - the caller - traditionally announces each number in a language so familiar it has become corny: "Two fat ladies - 88", "clickety click - 66".
His show, inevitably, had become cornier and less appealing to young people as it, and they, aged, and all those reruns in the later years were a drag, but, until the end, our pleasure in witnessing Carson's snap-to bearing, his perfect pauses, and his collapses into laughter, sometimes to the point of tears, stayed at full brim.
Way back, heroes became real corny, which led to the weird, which gives us Kiss, and when you look at it, kids haven't had a real hero since the Lone Ranger.
Liking the Hip became as corny and embarrassing as my predilection for Tim's double-doubles and chocolate-chip muffins, and I needed to shirk my pseudo-redneck past to fit in with all the cultured, fancy city people I was meeting.
Since Aaron lost control of the Boondocks Facebook page, the posts have become remarkably corny.
