This is almost hilarious the first 11 or so times he does it, but by the time Guru Pitka (Mr. Myers) says "Mariska Hargitay" to Ms. Hargitay herself, it's somehow less amusing than it should be.
Make the main character a lobbyist for furry little baby seals and it's somehow less amusing.
One wishes that the strangeness of Paladino's candidacy somehow made it amusing.
Somehow this was hugely amusing to the Libyan passengers.
What she gets instead is both amusing and somehow dismaying.
The novel contains amusing (and somehow heartwarming) chapters from Peter's book, replete with nonsensical self-help aphorisms like "Good love is a quilt — light as feathers and strong as iron".
When Caldwell eventually manages to buy a house, it's both amusing and somehow inevitable that Knapp rushes up and hoists her "like a sack of grain" over the threshold.
("It would be easy to liken this show to Bill Cosby meets the Bible Belt: good clean comedy that somehow is still very amusing and fun to watch," one reviewer wrote of the touring production of "I Know I've Been Changed").
On the other hand, it is amusing and somehow appropriate to conceive of Octavius Caesar (the efficient Jeffrey Carlson, with unfortunate orange-blond hair) as an officious youngster, presumably just out of Oxford, taking over Daddy's business with an air of petulant entitlement.
My 20-minute errand to pay a simple fee has somehow turned into an amusing two-hour ordeal, bouncing between the clerk and the tax assessor, a pile of mysterious paperwork growing like a divine comedy in my hands.
