Her breakout work, the exhaustingly titled "We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915," puthatat very process onto the stage, detailing the fraught, often painfully funny efforts of six actors to create a play about a little-noted African genocide.
But because of its unwieldy size, it was prone to accidents that plagued even the hearty athletes who rode it (Herlihy notes Mark Twain's arduous, perilous and funny efforts to master the high wheel recounted in his essay "Taming the Bicycle").
(Their crack at "Little Darlin' " on open-mic night is their most pathetically desperate, and funniest, effort).
The most recent letter, written two days after Christmas 1995, is one of his funnier efforts, even though he insisted that he had not "a shred of interesting news" to report.
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The Hollywood Reporter lauded the film as "Winsome, touching and arguably the funniest Pixar effort ever, this gorgeously rendered, high-flying adventure is a tidy 90-minute distillation of all the signature touches that came before it".
Referring to the expanded interest in their programs, he said, "They've gotten caught up by the success of a system that is being driven by a funny motivation: student efforts to get into college," rather than knowledge for its own sake.
As is tradition, prizes will be awarded by popular vote in the following categories: most delicious dessert, funniest dessert, best effort, best literary theme, and overall best in show.
But the bureau's unsubtle, though unsuccessful efforts to intimidate his printer and distributor are a lot less funny, as was the effort (also unsuccessful) to deprive Stone of his passport in the 1950s.
The Comedy Central stars who appeared onstage at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York as presenters or performers put in the most effort, with funny bits by the "Daily Show" correspondents, including Samantha Bee and John Oliver and a solid Obama sketch by Key and Peele.
