Caitlin Moran's How to Be a Woman (Ebury), her scabrously funny engagement with modern feminism, won book of the year at the Galaxy awards.
"Fifteen minutes after they won," Ochs said, "I said, 'Al, do you know what this means to you?' He said, 'Yeah, 10 years of speaking engagements.' It was funny".
In the New York Times' compilation of the best proposals from 2013, you'll find a mix of creative, funny and quirky engagements that all went off without a hitch (pun intended).
It's nice to see clever, funny people exhibiting passionate engagement with current affairs.
The sweet video has been circulating (below), but Luckett says there's another funny moment from the engagement that didn't quite get captured on film.
There are some funny moments in "Rules of Engagement," but the comedy is closer to "Everybody Loves Raymond".
Low production value nonsense posted on social media by an infinite number of identical right-wing cranks so that the sheer volume of content is guaranteed to generate enough exposure and rage-engagement to drive meatspace politics is always funny.
Meanwhile Film Forum's five-week "French Crime Wave" series ends on a very high note: a weeklong engagement, beginning Friday, of Fran?s Truffaut's funny-sad new wave classic "SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER" (1960).
To make sure the word "meditation" doesn't daunt you into a coma of respectful abstention, let me say right off that his book is funny, moving, sexy, beautifully told, an elaborate engagement with the shape and meaning of narrative.
City development committee convener Will Dawson said: "I was really pleased to see the high level of engagement from people suggesting names which went from the historically significant to the hysterically funny.
