The performance was regularly interrupted by bursts of laughter, guffaws, squeaks and knowing humorous rumbles and moans.
Plus ca change department: in a letter in the Arts and Leisure section ["A Comedy?," Oct. 15], Peter Farley complained that a recent performance of Shakespeare's "Richard II" "was regularly interrupted by bursts of laughter, guffaws, squeaks and knowing humorous rumbles and moans" produced by an audience that would have preferred to be at an evening of "Cats".
"Thirtysomething," which began on ABC in 1987, also stood out right away: it was a knowing, humorous and realistic soap opera about yuppie angst at a time when network schedules were cluttered with over-the-top "Dallas" knockoffs, including "Knots Landing" and "Dynasty".
She understood, it seemed to me, that everything she said would have to be able to survive the listeners' intelligence and sense of irony; her own intelligence was high and refined, her sense of irony knowing and humorous.
His favourite title is Miffy at the Gallery, perhaps the most knowing and humorous of all his books, which shows a thoughtful Miffy contemplating works by his heroes Mondriaan, Calder and, of course, Matisse.
Dr. Robert J. Goldston, an astrophysics professor at Princeton and director of the Plasma Physics Laboratory, described the Benny anecdote as typical of Dr. Stix, who "just enjoyed the science and just enjoyed the insights in a very relaxed and humorous way, at the same time knowing it was of the utmost importance".
The Secret History of Costaguana (2007), published this month by Bloomsbury in McLean's translation, is a humorous, picaresque novel of adventure and a knowing take on a family saga.
You just hit with a hammer.' The guy says, 'That's $50 for hitting it with a hammer, and $200 for knowing where to hit it.' " That's a humorous way of saying that repairs may look simple, but they're often not.
It's a bracing, and humorous, flurry of effects, and the audience replies with knowing laughter.
And in this context arrived a book — humorous, humane — that all of a sudden gave the French the illusion of knowing a country".
Stranitzky's success rested in large part on his portrayal of Hanswurst, the sly, knowing, Viennese servant character he adopted and modified to provide opportunity for improvised comedy within vernacular, coarsely humorous plays called Haupt und Staatsaktionen ("chief and state plays").
