This mordantly funny novel examines the life of Sir Edward Feathers, a desiccated barrister known to colleagues and friends as Old Filth (the nickname stands for "Failed in London Try Hong Kong").
The evening-length work, which had its New York premiere this week, was called an opera, but in fact it was a series of set pieces and skits -- some abstract and beautiful, some very funny -- examining different aspects of the term voice: the voices you hear in your head, the recorded voices of answering machines, the voices of musical instruments and so on.
The present study utilized an event-related fMRI design incorporating three conditions (unfunny, nonsensical and funny) to examine distinct brain regions associated with the detection and resolution of incongruities.
One of the most interesting things about Outlander, which is adapted by Ron Moore from Diana Gabaldon's best-selling novels, is the frank and frequently funny way it examines female desire.
So often anything posted online that is funny, personal, heartfelt, examines the minutiae of our existence, gets into the subtleties of our popular culture, tells us something about our humanity is met with a loud screaming "WHAT IS THIS?
Exploring terrain charted by Richard Ford and Raymond Carver, the stories in this first collection are confident and ruefully funny as they examine what might be called post-postmacho manhood.
Let's examine "funny" T-shirts that will guarantee you never get laid.
He didn't mean to be so funny (Globe and Mail): Examining Carl Hiaasen's crime-writing careerSave the last dance (Arts Desk): Two top choreographers, Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch, died last year.
While initially guarded, she warmed up to me and would tell funny stories whenever I examined her.
But before we lose ourselves down the tumblrs tags of cute JRM pics, we need to examine whether "funny" is really the light we want to cast him in.
