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Gov. Jeb Bush and Senator Mel Martinez should be ashamed for their ridiculous behavior.
But, even more than preachers, gospel singers have always been allowed a certain amount of "ridiculous" behavior; many have discovered that theatrical excess is, in fact, a job requirement.
Sanneh writes that "one of Ansari's greatest assets" is a counterintuitive ability to observe ridiculous behavior and react not with simple mockery or exasperation, as many comedians would, but with half-crazed wonder.
* This tweet from Shane Warne, Australian spinner and paparazzo-magnet, currently courting Liz Hurley in Melbourne: "Apologies to anyone driving on the rd & witnessing the ridiculous behavior [sic] by irresponsible photographers trying to get a pic!!!!!" Those irresponsible photographers can be a drag, can't they?
Every fuckin' movie but 'Slumdog Millionaire' and 'Boyz n the Hood' is us!" This is one of Ansari's greatest assets: a counterintuitive ability to observe ridiculous behavior and react not with simple mockery or exasperation, as many comedians would, but with half-crazed wonder.
"I feel like I have an obligation to my club, to my family, to not react to things like this and show the club stands for better than that and I was raised better than that to respond to such ridiculous behavior".
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No sport, age or skill level is immune from these ridiculous behaviors.
I was proud of myself when I finally learned to stop these ridiculous behaviors and interact with him on his level -- not mine.
As an activity, it dangerously toes a line of ridiculous social behavior.
"(Otto)," which premièred at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, is sweetly, darkly funny, in the team's signature mode; its characters, like us, are aesthetically charming and ridiculous, and their behavior is everything from loving to irrational, driven by sadness, loneliness, joy, the need to connect, and pain at the inability to do so.
How ridiculous was my behavior!
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