"Some colleagues are getting these funny envoy offers, which quite a few seem to be taking up," said one.
Squirming a little as we discuss why penis jokes are so funny, he offers: "I think sex is just something that people can't talk about in public usually.
Instead, Smith's writing is ethereal and even funny; she offers riffs on Wisława Szymborska, Rilke's "Orpheus," and a host of others, as the narrator makes sense of what her dear departed left behind, and of the consonance that art brings to life.
Lyons' book is entertaining and funny, and offers a rare inside look at the kind of frat-house and cult-like cultures that populate parts of the tech world, as well as raising important questions about age bias and the social contract in the workplace today.
Tom Long of The Detroit News gave the film a B+, saying "It's touching, it's funny, it offers cautions about the modern pace of life, and it depends on a sense of rural Americana for its soul".
This wildly funny piece offered a caustic view of a vanished, class-bound England and contained hilarious parodies of everything from John Buchan to TE Lawrence.
Contra Christopher Hitchens and his 2007 assertion in Vanity Fair that women are not funny, they offer irrefutable proof that along with producing and starring in a hit TV series (thank you, Tina Fey), women can go aggressive laugh to aggressive-and-absurd laugh with men.
Lorne [Michaels] thought I was funny and offered me a job as a writer… But Greg said: 'I won't let you go because you have a job here, and you're an actress.' It was heartbreaking to fly there and fly back, and kinda know that I didn't get it, and shut that door".
