All this was amusing for several reasons.
"I think it's amusing for the fans to see.
Wacky names and deep-woods dialect (subtitles are occasionally used in "Porter Ridge") are all over reality television, and they're amusing for about 15 minutes.
You can share a witty meme of a politician looking like a different incarnation of a plonker, and that's amusing for 10 seconds.
On Saturday, the public screening of "Fidel," the likable documentary by Estela Bravo, an American-born director living in Cuba, was amusing for several reasons.
Mr. Adrien can be amusing ("For rock music, France is a land of vermin," he sniffs) as he recalls the 1970s and '80s, dropping names like Iggy Pop and extolling the seminal techno of Kraftwerk.
But when Sean Savoye, as Bottom, was transformed into a donkey, Ms. Kowroski was amusing for the way her infatuation with him threatened to turn her into a giggling schoolgirl.
It may be amusing for some people but you learn nothing about the work, just a lot about Grayson, his motorcycle and his teddy bear David Measles, or whatever it's called [it's Alan Measles].
Since an essential element of the American idea is its variety, I have tried always to celebrate things that are amusing for their own sake, or ridiculous but revealing, or simply of intrinsic interest.
