Is it to help him or to burden him so that it will have a funny effect?
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As usual, the critics were pleased with Barrington, "on whom... falls the chief burden of the piece, is intensely funny as Ludwig, more especially in the absurd costume of the second act...."....
The more purely comic characters, who don't labor under the burden of having to be lovable as well as funny, do a bit better.
At times, Mr. Burden has also been one of funniest artists to come out of the politically fraught world of early performance and video, handling humor like a scalpel.
"The funny thing is that Sonny did not want to burden her with the horses, but after he died she has spent half of his fortune trying to get them all back," said Hendrickson, whom Whitney married in 1997.
I'm standing inside The Glass House, architect Philip Johnson's iconic mid-century estate in suburban Connecticut, watching combat boot-clad women stand astride men crawling on all fours like beasts of burden, and the contrast is kind of funny.
They are all brief, charming, funny, and preoccupied in a postmodern way with the burdens and complications (and pleasures) of writing fiction.
"I think it was a man who was relaxed and funny and looked as though he was about to shed this burden of the presidency.
A character funny, touching and tragic in equal measure, through Samad Iqbal we understand the burden of the comfort of faith.
