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I'm sure there's some deliberate humour in The Martian, so maybe that means it is a comedy.
It doesn't matter – it's fun, and written with quite deliberate humour, tongues not so much in cheek as right through them.
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Director Adam Spreadbury-Maher's translation has moments of deliberate and inadvertent humour (Tosca: "I'll vomit!", Scarpia: "That's just the way I like you!").
On poignant display were the self-deprecating humour, the deliberate spontaneity, the appeal to noble sentiments, the refusal to find serious fault with his own performance.
Gilbert, Morris and Sumner look back on their career and see just as much humour – sometimes deliberate, sometimes unintentional – as Hook does ("Joy Division? Four tossers from Salford," is how he remembers that most mythologised of bands), which only makes their current, Pink Floyd-style impasse all the more unfortunate.
Takita stated that the addition of humour was deliberate, as "humans are comical by nature", and that the humour did not conflict with the film's darker themes.
Unprompted, both Riches and Dolan mention the sort of exchange where humour is replaced with deliberate offence but is still described as "just a bit of banter".
The only difference is that the humour in New Tricks is nearly always deliberate.
Muzhgan Ahmadi, a student from Kabul, says the decision to use humour against the religious council's recommendations is a deliberate ploy.
The jury who convicted the ex-footballer after deliberating for three hours on Wednesday, had heard Facey, from Huddersfield, Yorkshire, claim he had decided to "humour" two businessmen offering him up to £15,000 for his role in a plot.
Gallows humour.
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