Is it even conceivable that a foreign-born immigrant with a funny foreign-sounding name and a heavy funny-sounding foreign accent could be elected Prime Minister of the most important German Land, North Rhine-Westphalia?
"I know if she had heard my voice it would have steadied her," Hitchens told the crowd at the Y. "Hitch-22" is a lot like its author: heavy, yellow, funny, smart, long-winded.
As in Seth Rogen's Knocked Up, there's some authorial wish-fulfilment in the heavy-set funny guy getting the beautiful girl.
It was very heavy, which is funny because I don't tend to make very heavy music myself.
The show is a messy, heavy, beautiful, surreal, funny, confusing, all-over-the-place and refreshingly honest piece of pop culture ― and the reviews reflect that.
Television Without Pity graded the episode with an A. In her review for Give Me My Remote, Kath Skerry wrote that the episode "left me satisfied and smiling," partly attributing this to Roy's attack as a "way to make a very heavy, not do funny moment hysterical".
I would really recommend this book as a funny but heavy read.
But a couple of adornments — one before the concert footage, one after — flesh out this funny, profanity-heavy movie nicely.
A sequence in which an American translator mangles an Arab speaker's words is funny, if heavy-handed.
Phil Baker in the Sunday Times held that "comedy and serious violence are a tricky combination for a writer … Too knockabout and buffoonish to be a serious study of violence to women in Pakistani culture, too ugly to be funny, this heavy-handed book might be well intended but it is a bloody mess".
