It's both those things – but it's also tied up with our terrified unease about real mental illness, and the comforting implication of Phoenix's just-for-laughs routine that it can be as easily cured as shaving off your beard.
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Onstage, despite a few scattered laughs, the routines just aren't that funny.
Daniel O'Reilly, who has been accused of condoning rape and sexual violence in his Dapper Laughs comedy routines, claimed that he had been "attempting to push the boundaries" but had got carried away.
It wasn't that he wasn't funny, but that he peeled the onion of comedy until audiences cried so hard they laughed; early routines like his incompetent ventriloquist and his exhaustion-of-ideas bit were closest in spirit to the deconstructed comedy that Andy Kaufman would popularize a few years later.
Billy Barnes, a composer and lyricist whose varied work included satirical Broadway revues, "Laugh-In" routines and poignant songs that became popular standards for artists like Barbra Streisand, died on Monday at his home in Los Angeles.
The pineapple juice and coconut didn't help, adding a sweetness that lulls you into a false sense of security, before a few seconds later you feel like a fire-breather who's laughed mid-routine and swallowed some lighter fluid.
The pineapple juice and coconut didn't help its cause, adding a sweetness that lulls you into a false sense of security, before a few seconds later you feel like a fire-breather who's laughed mid-routine and swallowed some lighter fluid.
Beatrice Terry, the Pearl director, pulls out most stops in an effort to squeeze laughs from a routine tale of misplaced love.
Padded with third-rate show music and the June Taylor Dancers, the hourlong "Color Honeymooners" was an aging trouper's rehash of earlier triumphs that traded on audience memories of better days and bigger laughs: an oldies routine, with the stars playing themselves playing their greatest hits.
