I haven't always been a fan of Catherine Tate's Nan either, admiring the character work but finding the essential joke a little repetitive.
But to drag Henry's inner child to the surface in such undisguised form means you lose the essential joke of a grown man behaving like a baby.
Anderson mimics the essential joke of Altman's film – that when the counterculture lost its idealism (and ratcheted up its hedonism) it became just as selfishly sinister as the world it was designed to overthrow.
That's the essential Tarantino joke — discourse and mayhem, punctilio and murder, linked together.
This "surface congruity" detected by the lexical semantic analysis stage may actually serve the purpose of temporarily foiling or tricking the system and may be essential to joke processing, particularly as it pertains to puns.
Coward knew that this particular fun machine was jerry-built — "As a complete play, it leaves a lot to be desired," he wrote — and that speed was essential to make its jokes and its artificiality pay off.
Mr. Morris's work is jokier than that of any contemporary choreographer of comparable stature, but few of his dances are predominantly comic -- the jokes, though essential, are incidental.
It lists more than 1,000 charters, as well as fishing message boards and chat rooms, fishing raffles, fishing classifieds, lunar tables, a large database of fish species nationwide, a children's corner, greeting cards, weekly prizes and the essentials: fishing tips, jokes and articles with titles like "Crappie Attack" and "L.A. Area Shipwrecks".
---I wiLogoirelessly lobby Logo, Hallmark Channel, and TV Land to stop editing non-plot-essential (yet hilarious) jokes out of The Golden Girls, in a mean-spirited bid to cram in more commercials.
Sometimes, the joke palled: the essential hollowness of that worldview gets hard to obscure over two-and-a-half hours.
Their books are humorous and heartbreaking in a way that makes one feel essential to understanding the other the joke that draws tears, the wink like a knife.
