There's the seed of a funny, mean idea inside that portrait: that being a lawyer and being a grifter are not, in truth, different jobs.
Next to a photo of one of Mr. Crawford's crumpled, hand-addressed envelopes, an editor noted, "Shaggy has indeed been mailing us letters for at least a decade now, and they are always funny, mean, disturbing and good".
Originally, we thought that "funny" meant "what I laugh at when I hear it" or something like that, and "serious" meant "what gives me non-funny information" or something similar.
Eventually you'll finish saying something about your ex that you thought was funny— meant as funny and someone will lean over and whisper in your ear, "Hey I know it's been hard, but it's also been like… a year".
Tell her that compliments like being handsome, smart or funny mean nothing to you if it did not come from her; that hot dogs taste so much better than gourmet meals if you're eating them together; and that you'd be willing to look like a complete idiot in a woman's clothing if she asks you to.
What rankles him is talent wasted: the funniest, meanest joke in "Hope" is Ruby's claim that the guy Tasered by the cops deserved it, because he'd been selling copies of Lee's "Chi-Raq".
Culled from anecdotes collected on MyFirstTime.com, the stories, some meant to be funny, some meant to be poignant and sad, move back and forth among four actors (Bill Dawes, Josh Heine, Kathy Searle and Cydnee Welburn) like a game of pass the baton.
By funny she means a tiger-striped dirndl with an apron covered in rhinestones.
