It has explicit sexual humor and nudity.
Just as the display of affection has shifted from puritanical restraint to explicit display, humor is becoming freer and more adventurous in India.
Young writers, directors and media producers are starting to experiment with satire, dark humor, sexually explicit jokes and other expressions that earlier faced stiff resistance.
And with its selfish heroine, dark humor and explicit sex, "Maelström" (in French with English subtitles) is obviously in art film territory.
But if ever it rained horizontally, you know, they would be invaluable — simply invaluable!" Throughout "Sylvie and Bruno," the source of the humor is made explicit: all the comic figures are professors, explicitly identified as such, and the maddest of all is a German professor called Mein Herr.
At heart, it's a soap opera, though most soap operas don't have a wicked sense of humor or an explicit mockery of a consumerist society.
Bathroom humor becomes even more explicit in "Toilets," although more cerebral Duchampian pranks are also afoot.
MOST of Ms. Gilman's plays, despite their dark thread of humor, are shot through with explicit scenes and images of violence, examples of interpersonal exploitation gone awry, and explorations of the consequences of failed communication.
No thought or body part seems too private or explicit that it can't be mined for humor.
