People can't always tell if you're being lighthearted or voicing a serious belief". So, aim for clarity, he says, and explain what you meant.
Fortunately for the filmmakers, most of the comedians interviewed here — Jerry Stiller, Jackie Mason, Jerry Lewis and many other (mostly male) voices — provide lighthearted remembrances to elevate this poorly executed documentary.
From awful, lighthearted comedy films to voicing the token dead black guy in a video game, Ice Cube is really going up in the world.
Jill Sobule's 1995 hit, "I Kissed a Girl," showed her lighthearted side, but her girlish voice and folk-pop arrangements can be subterfuge as she ponders love, time and human nature.
Her smart, breezy, intricate songs are propelled by style-hopping grooves, lighthearted nonsense-syllable hooks and a voice that can be flirtatious or biting.
Lately he has taken a break from the baroque, applying his breathy yet urgent voice to a batch of lighthearted, stripped-down jazzy tunes.
There's a small note of apology in his voice, and yet I'm suddenly lighthearted.
Bis, from Scotland, recharges new-wave rock with youthful exuberance, lighthearted cynicism and an exchange between male and female voices and viewpoints that's never less than snappy.
IN THE "Wi(l der Europe" column at the Economist Group's Brussels-based weekly, European Voice, the columnist has been dishing out his lighthearted bouquets and brickbats for the past year.
Chicago natives in particular have voiced their disgust at what looked like a lighthearted trailer making a mockery of a painful issue.
If the singer's dry, almost apologetic voice and mild-mannered cocktail pianism conjure a mood of lighthearted merriment, they never go more than halfway to imparting the aggressive energy the material demands to come fully alive.
