The least amusing time of the year.
Perhaps the least amusing aspect of Farage is the impact he will have on parties other than his own.
And actually it's probably about the least amusing thing in ToL, which just gets funnier and funnier as it goes along.
On the whole, the sun is shining down on Updike's America, and almost everything can be seen in a way that's positive or at least amusing.
(We have, one hopes, now heard the last titters of "Come on, Tim" as Murray prepares to serve, perhaps the snootiest and least amusing joke in sports, and emphatically absent from the Olympics).
The rest of "Tuxedo," which opens nationwide today, is about stopping a plot by the mad bottled-water magnate Diedrich Banning Ritchie Costerr, whose childish hostile boredom is at least amusing because it suggests he has read the script).
It was this that he gradually began to draw on in a run of serious and even abrasive parts which made the latter stages of his career arguably the most interesting (if the least amusing).
All of this may be old hat to fans of "Sex and the City," but the statistics and interviews Kamen has chosen to highlight are at times startling, and at the very least amusing.
Schoenberg wrote a one-act atonal comic opera, Von Heute auf Morgen, just to show it could be done; along with the comic operas of Richard Strauss, it must be one of the least amusing operas ever written.
But most people found her humility sincere or at least amusing, and it was, in any case, hard to resist a woman whom your own children liked so much and who remembered not only their birthdays but yours, too, and came to your back door with a plate of cookies or a card or some lilies of the valley in a little thrift-store vase that she told you not to bother returning.
What was surprising, or at least amusing, was the extent to which Apple executives, most notably Craig Federighi, were willing to take onstage digs at past skeuomorphic design elements.
