And when Mr. Lack, 62, a former head of NBC News, hears his guests wonder if something funny is in his company's coffee — a special sauce that keeps all Bloombergians marching so efficiently and effectively to the same tune — he looks a tad chagrined.
And when Mr. Lack, 62, a former head of NBC News, hears his guests wonder if something funny is in his company's coffee -- a special sauce that keeps all Bloombergians marching so efficiently and effectively to the same tune -- he looks a tad chagrined.
The three friends met Steve Loglisci for dinner in Little Italy, where they discussed the idea of a movie about the Italian neighborhood in Corona, Queens — something funny, something that did not involve the mob.
French people love bread, the Swiss are born dull, Americans don't understand humour and so go round telling jokes in which something funny they did is the punchline, etc, etc, etc, until the whole globe is just a sphere of tired cliches spinning around in space.
By John Cassidy The New Yorker, December 11 , 2000P. 42 Talk story about Madonna mania in London... Something funny is going on between Madonna and the inhabitants of the United Kingdom.
Come to think of it Mr. Brand did host a few "Big Brother" specials in Britain, but something funny waylaid him on the way to a sad future on "Celebrity Rehab" with a bunch of D-listers.
This is all told in a flood of Oprah-ready sunny aphorisms ("Miracles are out there somewhere. You just got to find them"), and most grandly emotional scenes end with the participants collapsing in laughter at something funny the reader's missed.
In both cases, something funny happened when they made the decision to stop the suffering and end the marriage.
If you pass him in the halls and end up walking together, make casual conversation about what he did in gym class, something funny your history teacher said, or about what you're doing that weekend.
Sometimes I intend to write something funny, in an email or in a song or something, and I'll sort of think: "Oh, I'm very clever, look how funny I just was", and I'll laugh, and it'll come back to me the next day and I'll go on laughing... It's a good thing to be able to amuse yourself.
