The simple act of getting pregnant, portrayed by the media as an effortless feat that, at times, is hard to prevent is joked about and spoofed, making light of the situation.
Same-sex friendship — male in "The Hangover" and a hundred others like it; female pretty much only in "Bridesmaids" and the "Sex and the City" pictures — now provides both the machinery of humor and the scaffolding of sentiment that prevents the jokes from becoming too mean.
On the other hand, both Rickard and Baynton suggest this enforced spontaneity may have ultimately worked to enhance the comedy, not least by preventing the jokes from becoming over-rehearsed.
BRIAN CAZENEUVE: I don't recall athletes having as many handlers as they do now (insert Tiger joke) that prevent us from seeing humanity with acceptable flaws.
There were seven such pie-shaped rooms, all locked, around a circular corridor where loud Hawaiian music played, presumably, the astronomers joked, to prevent eavesdropping on what was occurring in the rooms.
It added: "This does not mean preventing comedy or jokes about people in the public eye, but simply that such comments and their tone are proportionate to their target".
They are attacked by a black car, whose occupants fire guns at them to prevent them from learning the joke's origin.
"So…the question of the hipster is more frequently answered with tongue-in-cheek jokes or irony which also prevent a useful conversation from emerging".
On Wednesday, Freeman said Alexander treated Arias "very well," but recalled an incident during one of the trips, when Arias got out of the car to take pictures and Alexander drove forward as a joke, preventing her from getting back into the car.
How can you prevent people from making the same good joke as you?
