Coming on like a Saturday Night Live spin-off, Most Wanted works over everything from Eminem to buppie-love, and raises enough shallow laughs to justify about 63% of its ticket price.
"You look at your list and you think, 'Gosh, I'm so shallow!'" she laughs, "because it's 'good-looking, tall, handsome...'." In her memoir, Janmohamed focuses on the intersection between the cultural representations of love and the reality.
"Before I came, I had heard that people were shallow," she laughs.
"Someone said it was a deep look into shallow waters," he laughs, "which I liked".
The subtlety of the performances — Ms. DeWitt's in particular — is sacrificed for easy laughs, shallow tears and a coy trick ending.
A tasteful sense of humor: Not shallow and not laughing too often or too long at what may not be funny enough.
We walk along a shallow stream, the boys laughing as fish nibble our toes.
"Given what some of those guys are up to," he says with a laugh, "we were in the shallow end of the pool".
Celebrity Autobiography mines the shallow musings of the famous for big laughs by reading verbatim from their autobiographies.
Someone just came up from behind and told your deepest, darkest, and most shallow secret and now everyone is either laughing at you or badly gossiping about you.
We laugh at the rich — at the shallow consumerism, the obsession with absurd elements of status, at the whole glittering, ridiculous mess of it all.
