It's the punchline-free poignancy of the strangely zen Pet Shop Boys pastiche "Inner City Pressure" that suits them best... although the pure laugh-power of Prince mickey-take "The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room" and the Shabba/Shaggy-styled "Boom" cannot be disputed.
The Good. "28 Reasons" (Pharoah, Zamata, Thompson, Moynihan, McKinnon, Wells) The biggest pure laugh of the night was when Pharoah, in one word, listed reasons 2 through 28 on "why to hug a black guy today".
In the course of a few minutes, the weight on Bill's shoulders is lifted, and he's laughing that kind of pure laugh that maybe only comes out of you when you're about 14 and feeling alone.
He looked as if he were laughing — a laugh of pure animal joy, as if his whole being was so overwhelmed by the rapture of being alive that he wanted to share his elation.
As Laverne in "Laverne & Shirley," she got laughs with pure Bronx exasperation; later, as the director of… Cristo Rey New York is a Catholic high school whose motto — "The School That Works" — is more literal than you might think.
As Laverne in "Laverne & Shirley," she got laughs with pure Bronx exasperation; later, as the director of such films as "Big" and "A League of Their Own," she preferred having Tom Hanks nibble an ear of baby corn.
As Laverne in "Laverne & Shirley," she got laughs with pure Bronx exasperation; later, as the director of… The sights of sleepy Frenchtown, New Jersey, include several horse farms, three steepled churches, and, in front of one yellow Victorian house, a large supine… Children starting ballet lessons, especially when they begin late, are typically churning with desire and also with fear.
Some of the encounters are clichéed, some of the laughs are pure slapstick, some of the shots seem to come from old horror movies: See the whites of their eyes as Max comes storming by with an ax to get the attention of the fouines (stone martens) he hears in the walls.
[big laughs of pure understanding].
