AS the owner of a fitness studio in Brooklyn, Elizabeth Pongo recognizes the humor and humiliation inherent in shaping up: the ill-fitting shorts, the mystifying gym contraptions, the tiny sacks of cookies portioned to deliver just 100 sad calories.
Don't worry, Summer is completely fine and recognizes the humor in the situation.
Liotta recognizes the humor in this dynamic, and jokes about the way it may work to his advantage as an overprotective dad.
I am always pleasantly surprised when other people say they recognize the humor in my written stories.
"It wasn't that he pursued me for so long, it was that it took me a little longer to recognize his humor, intelligence and thoughtfulness," the bride said.
In "Aerogrammes," her first story collection, she treats her eclectic band of characters — several children, a chimpanzee, an obsessive analyzer of handwriting, two Indian wrestlers in Edwardian London, a former grocer, an aging dance teacher, a widower, a writer and a ghost — gently, almost parentally, pitying them while recognizing the humor in their predicaments.
In her first story collection, "she treats her eclectic band of characters — several children, a chimpanzee, an obsessive analyzer of handwriting, two Indian wrestlers in Edwardian London, a former grocer, an aging dance teacher, a widower, a writer and a ghost — gently, almost parentally, pitying them while recognizing the humor in their predicaments," Ms. Cooke writes.
Yet the members of the committee that awarded the Peace Prize weren't the only ones who failed to recognize the humor in their decision.
Now in its fourth year, the awards show recognizes visual creativity, humor, drama -- and brevity -- in the year's movie trailers.
Recognize that great humor, especially humor that is relevant to the product, is very hard to achieve.
