Technology features heavily, as do humorous, quirky and inane stories, while business, politics and world affairs feature less prominently, if at all.
Does humorous fiction have a harder time being designated "classic" than fiction that is serious or dramatic?
The other study discovered that, not only do humorous programs improve dilation of the arteries, but that watching depressing programs is actually harmful to our blood vessels.
Don't make humorous comments, because they may be misinterpreted.
So do works that make humorous use of closed-circuit video, like the Nauman-esque "TV Chair," which makes the sitter simultaneously an object of surveillance and a hindrance to it.
Satire on women's fashions, and general takeoff on Lois Long's department of On and Off the Avenue, done in humorous style by Frank Sullivan.
When responding to an event like Boston, it's a tough challenge to do something humorous without being either flip or mawkish — and even more challenging to offer something uplifting.
The men also look at Wright's off-season hitting program and charitable endeavors and visit with his family, where his brother Daniel does a humorous imitation of David answering questions after a game.
"Every time I tried to do something humorous, people would say, 'What is that?' " Still, he persisted, producing a line of playful wooden animals with movable joints for Areaware.
"If you were looking at the history of the universe back to the Big Bang, and you had to pick eight years to do a humorous news quiz, Clinton and Lewinsky into the Bush administration would have to be it," he said.
