He hired a slew of talented journalists and rethought the news and feature pages, including creating the Post's much-copied Style section, which replaced the traditional "soft" women's section with one that had humor, flash and bite.
Clifford: We have a similar sense of humor that has evolved since the days of Hot Nuts — very dry, sarcastic humor — and love to pull off little tricks and surprises with one another.
I am always hesitant about films that have zero humor in them because I've found, in the most dark places, whether it's gallows humor or something else, that humor still exists.
Iman has a "worldly, glamorous voice that has a sense of humor," Mr. Kors said.
"It's so bad that there's a gallows humor that has sort of emerged out of this," Mr. Meyer said.
He still exhibits the sharp sense of humor that has made his work, like the well-known "How to Write About Africa," so resonant.
In addition to cable they point to the crude humor that has made the movies of Judd Apatow, Todd Phillips and other filmmakers staples of contemporary comedy.
That is a function of humor that has always interested me, and that's why comedy actually belongs in the realm of redemption.
"Maybe I need to learn how to point better," Mr. Rauschenberg said, smiling and showing the humor that has helped him adapt to his disability.
That pretty much describes the comic market that Mr. Simon had cornered for decades, with a type of fast-quipping, point-scoring humor that has since been taken over mostly by television.
