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A tart, funny ending makes it still more satisfying.
Keret often punctuates his stories with this type of upsetting but also vaguely funny ending.
He'd sacked the E Street Band, bought a Hollywood mansion, and found himself facing, as he wrote in "Better Days", "a sad funny ending/ to find yourself pretending/ a rich man in a poor man's shirt".
He's well aware of the tugs; he even sang about in 1992's "Better Days": "It's a sad funny ending to find yourself pretending / a rich man in a poor man's shirt". For Springsteen, though, the mission becomes clear when he is on tour.
(Fun fact: it's on you as the actor to improvise the funny ending!) When I'm feeling particularly stuck in a commercial scene, I always return to the script.
I'll film it, and maybe that would be a funny ending, just to have this guy running into a park scared.
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A lot of other stuff happened, but trying to make that funny ended up being no fun".
But the funnies ended there, as the Scottish Labour MP, who recently stepped back from frontline politics after some 25 years, began by making it personal.
Women are funny: end of debate.
As "Friends" and "Seinfeld" would later, in its afterlife "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" became a reassuring, unfailingly funny end to the day, as much a social phenomenon as a sitcom.
Anybody who makes a living being funny for money — and, as a professional cartoonist, I would count myself among that cohort, which you could consider either blessed or cursed, depending on, among other things, how much of the funny ends up as money — is often asked if you can learn to be a professional, i.e., a money-making, cartoonist.
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