The drunken Nick Adams's hilarious attempts to be "practical" in The Three Day Blow.
The film is based on Jon Ronson's non-fiction bestseller of the same name, which offered an amusing insight into hilarious attempts by the US government to exploit paranormal abilities to combat enemies.
There are hilarious attempts at landscape, but the fountains and parterres of Versailles are grabbed by the camera and pasted into the action, as if the whole thing were being shot on a cell phone and sent to friends.
(She reports, for example, the hilarious attempts of the American Life Application Study Bible to subvert Christ's manifest socialism: "This way of living is different from communism because 1) the sharing was voluntary; 2) it didn't involve all private property; 3) it was not a membership requirement in order to be a part of the church").
There was his hilarious attempt to get close to Pope John Paul II when he celebrated a special mass in the Irish village of Knock in 1979.
It was such a hilarious attempt that it was the most memorable play in a game that included a Mike Wallace 95-yard touchdown reception.
Aside from the hilarious attempt to imply that the Confederacy started the civil war to repudiate slavery (it was, in fact, to defend it), this is a chilling passage.
Alternating sing-songy raps with squawks and impenetrable ad-libs, he is, at times, extremely difficult to understand (Blackish star Tracee Ellis Ross made a hilarious attempt to decipher his hit Lifestyle).
It was a Sunday morning sailing, not a midnight one, and although a fair-sized crowd was on hand by the ten-o'clock embarkation deadline, only passengers were allowed aboard and there was no opportunity for any of those frenzied bon-voyage parties that frequently ended in somebody's hilarious attempt to go along as a stowaway.
For inspiration, he cited the teamwork of the Detroit Pistons in upsetting the Los Angeles Lakers this year for the N.B.A. championship; for laughs, he played a 19-year-old video showing David Letterman, then at NBC, breaking into the General Electric building in a vain but hilarious attempt to meet his new boss, John F. Welch Jr., the chief executive of G.E. who had just bought NBC.
There is even a hilarious attempt, near the end, to argue that the good old days of pornography used to brim with Ambrosian innocence, after which, Erica Jong says, "a very cynical pornographic industry came in on the heels of the First Amendment, and began coining money, hand over fist".
