Franchises move, owners are no longer amusing, players are cranky.
The moment that I am no longer amusing to people, they leave me... " Finally, Marguerite's protracted death scene seemed to relate directly to Ludlam's obsession with mortality.
Rape, coercion, harassment, the man who edits his sexual history and thinks safe sex kills passion, the obscene phone call that is no longer amusing because you're not in the dorm anymore but living by yourself in a not so safe neighborhood and it's three in the morning: it's not very hard to understand why women sometimes sound rather grim about relations between the sexes.
As New York faces enormous financial pressures in the post-credit crash recession, it's no longer amusing to watch the clown act anymore.
That this is a modern-dress take isn't disturbing, although watching the Bard's well-played characters manipulate iPhones, which they do here, is no longer amusing.
Suddenly, it was no longer amusing to listen to two old women who are stuck in a time warp somewhere between Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson.
When a joke becomes material is it no longer funny?) The most accidentally amusing president?
On the other hand, Ed Ricketts of Amiga Format called Curse of Enchantia "light years behind" Monkey Island with "no comparison" to Monkey Island 2, as "the textless interface just doesn't work - despite the designers' belief, you do need words" and there is "no humour to speak of, no genuinely amusing humour, anyway".
Cicadas are harmless to humans, and the sensational "Swarmageddon" headlines may be no more than amusing to most people.
