Cell phones are allowed to ring, and the audience snickers when the defense attorney, Dennis Wixted, who slightly resembles Harrison Ford, gets off a question that is funny and vicious at the same time.
The big question is, "Is it funny?" On that front, it's a definitive yes.
Above all, it speaks in the way his essays open themselves up to the reader; although his sentences can appear to have the settled polish of examination questions ('What is funny and forlorn in the following sentence?' one essay begins), they continually invite discussion, debate, dissent.
Triple Creek Ranch: "So, what wine do you drink with elk?" l This is the kind of question friends think is funny when you're off to a wine tasting on a Montana dude ranch.
"Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie" is not that funny, but the more discomforting question is: How funny does it really want to be?
"Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie" is not that funny, but the more discomforting question is: How funny does it really want to be? Anthony Lane has been a film critic for The New Yorker since 1993.
Mr. Jacobson, who won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for "The Finkler Question," is shockingly funny.
The gentleman in question is courteous, funny, polite, kind to animals and lets people out at junctions.
"And if a question is very funny," Ms. Shalat said, "you have to put the person on hold, before you start laughing".
