As Dizzee's music has risen from the margins to the top of the charts, he has taken up a similarly big-hearted, humorous approach, with the X Factor parody video of 2007's Flex, and the wild, joyous noise of his recent No 1, Bonkers.
Several mentioned "The Judge's Big Shirt," a humorous anecdote that appeared in several newspapers in 1855 (and findable on Google Books), in which a seamstress charged with making three shirts mistakenly uses "the whole nine yards" of cloth to make one huge one instead.
In Wolf, while Hill and Reiner offer some desperately needed comic relief, the big teeth and humorous New Yorkisms can't deflect from the fact that they're both as shallow and amoral as Belfort and the rest of the guys.
As director, he recognizes that these versions do get big laughs from their humorous rhyming patterns, but he still contends that their unrhymed counterpart better reflects the nuance of the original French.
Nurse Jill Keft says the Big Potato is "quirky, individual, humorous, a nice public space now that it is landscaped".
His Audubon Theater, still partially intact at 165th Street and Broadway, has a facade of muscular terra-cotta frames around big show windows, with the humorous decorative touch of foxes' heads.
The Dixie Chicks play their own instruments, write their own songs, and, before they were backed into a corner and forced to endlessly defend themselves for a single political comment made 12 years ago, they were viewed as beloved storytellers who stirred up feelings of wide-eyed romance, humorous revenge, and big-dreaming adventure.
What's wonderful about Hall's play is that it shows them existing alongside humorous scepticism, sharp wit, big (and thwarted) talent.
The notion that Texas can control the Big 12 as its fief becomes almost humorous when the Longhorns play this poorly on the field.
Like Cathy, the lead character (played insuperably by Laura Linney) on The Big C, Hunt's voice has a humorous midwestern frankness about it.
