Another point which has distanced these strips was the U. S ./ Canada-centric humor, with a few jokes being totally untranslatable to some languages, however by 1980, the strip became the universal family fare product that it's known for.

Sometimes, though, Infocom threw in puzzles just for the humor of it — if the user never ran into these, they could still finish the game just fine.

I say, where the insanity is absolute, and is duly proved: For if reason and humanity enforce the plea in these circumstances, it is no less necessary to observe a caution and reserve in applying the law, as shall hinder it from being understood, that there is any privilege in a case of mere weakness of intellect, or a strange and moody humor, or a crazy and capricious or irritable temper.

Beginning with a performance emceed by humor columnist Bugs Baer at Halloran Hospital on Staten Island, these shows were produced and directed by Mendez.

The humor Plautus offered, such as “ puns, word plays, distortions of meaning, or other forms of verbal humor he usually puts them in the mouths of characters belonging to the lower social ranks, to whose language and position these varieties of humorous technique are most suitable ,” matched well with the stable of characters.

While not soaps in the traditional sense, these shows managed to appeal to wide audiences with their high drama mixed with humor, and are soap operas by definition.

The tone of these second edition titles was noticeably one of more overt humor and silliness, peppering the text with puns ( and even calling on fans to mail in suggested puns of their own for future supplements ).

One of their primary goals was preparing very young children for school, especially children from low-income families, using modeling, repetition, and humor to fulfill these goals.

She had at most a ready command of broadly conceived melodrama, humor, and pathos, and of these popular sentiments she compounded her book.

The principal among these are: ( a ) it has to be possible to make ( i. e., it has to actually exist ), in spite of its absurdity ; ( b ) it has to remain in the public domain ( i. e., it cannot be given a patent ); and ( c ) it must not be exclusively a vehicle for humor, or the warped satirical worldview of the inventor.

The Jordans were experts at transforming the ethnic humor of vaudeville into more rounded comic characters, no doubt due in part to the affection felt for the famous supporting cast members who voiced these roles, including Bill Thompson ( as the Old Timer and Wimple ), Harold Peary ( as Gildersleeve ), Gale Gordon ( as LaTrivia ), Arthur Q. Bryan ( as Dr. Gamble ; Bryan also voiced Elmer Fudd for the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons, which also borrowed lines from Fibber McGee and Molly from time to time ), Isabel Randolph ( as Mrs. Uppington ), Marlin Hurt ( a white male who played in dialect the McGee's maid, Beulah ), and others.

His films often have a bizarre, neo-surrealistic sensibility and gallows humor, though these elements were absent in the straightforward Hoffa biopic.

The mixing of these two radically contrasting genres generates the sophisticated humor and ironic tone of Satyricon.

Some of these tactics include bullying, collaboration, complaining, criticizing, demanding, disengaging, evading, humor, inspiring, manipulating, negotiating, socializing, and supplicating.

Both of these tricks raise the ire of one heckler who demands their money back and doesn't see the humor the others see, but Snoopy quickly shuts him up both times.

The humor of these came from the inept black characters trying to perform some element of high white culture.

The humor of these exchanges came from the misunderstandings on the part of the endmen when talking to the interlocutor:

The humanity, humor and optimism of the figures suggest that Jan Steen knew these men well, and wanted to portray them positively.

In these novels Arenas ’ style ranges from a stark realist narrative and high modernist experimental prose to absurd, satiric humor.

The humor of Thoreau's remark comes from pretending that these three putting outs are the same, when they are entirely different.

While sitcoms would occasionally balance their humor with more dramatic and humanistic moments, these remained the exception to the rule as the 1960s progressed.

Drawing on their previous work, these artists were adept at things like mixing humor and horror, as with the Funny Monsters cards in 1959.

So far we had encountered in the history of the Gallican Church recriminations of malcontent bishops, or a violent gesture of some prince discomforted in his avaricious designs ; but these were only fits of resentment or ill humor, accidents with no attendant consequences ; this time the provisions made against exercise of the pontifical authority had a lasting effect.

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

PartiallyClips tends to use dark humor ; frequently, the picture used is rather idyllic, which is common in public-domain clip art, but the added dialogue or captions twist the scene.

Dynamo Joe ranged in tone from action-packed space opera to slapstick humor.

Subject matter and genres have ranged from adventure, detective and humor strips to dramatic strips with soap opera situations, such as Mary Worth.

Yet no detail was too small to receive attention from this master, and as a result the playing here has humor, delicacy, and radiant humanity.

`` If we cannot tell evil, horror, and insanity from nonsense, what is the future of humor and comedy ''??

For a serious young man who plays golf with a serious intensity, Palmer has such an inherent sense of humor that it relieves the strain and keeps his nerves from jangling like banjo strings.

Whether fan of the Pagnol films or stage show, whether partial to music or not, you can't help but derive joy from this picture if you have a sense of humor and a heart.

But if we still carry on our sifting humor, and ask, What is the foundation of all conclusions from experience?

Over its run, Beavis and Butt-Head drew a notable amount of both positive and negative reactions from the public with its combination of lewd humor and implied criticism of society.

With an increase in the number of college-educated readers, there was a shift away from slapstick comedy and towards more cerebral humor.

" Since my mind has been engaged in the service of the lotus feet of Lord Krsna, and I have been enjoying an ever new transcendental humor, whenever I think of sex life with a woman, my face at once turns from it, and I spit at the thought.

In Lois and Clark, Kent ( Dean Cain ) is a stereotypical wide-eyed farm kid from Kansas with the charm, grace and humor of George Reeves, but without the awkward geekiness of Christopher Reeve.

Discordians use subversive humor to spread their philosophy and to prevent their beliefs from becoming dogmatic.

And at one point, I realized it really doesn't have this kind of crazy humor that people from New York would expect to see.

The film was very well received with critics, currently holding a 96 % " Certified Fresh " approval on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's consensus stating, " While frothy to a fault, Four Weddings and a Funeral features irresistibly breezy humor, and winsome performances from Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell.

Lyrical themes range from a primary focus on social and political concerns, to gory subject matter and black humor.

Maeda went on to create La Blue Girl, which departs somewhat from its predecessors by lightening the atmosphere with humor, lightly parodying the tentacle rape genre.

" Internet humor " is distinguishable from " Humor on the Internet " through the concept of ownership.

Internet forum humor somewhat differs from general Internet humor.

Varying from different communities, Internet forum humor often involves image macros, Internet memes, random objects and people, false news stories and sarcasm.

Shot from a script approved by H. G. Wells, the film was a blend of horror, humor and confounding visual effects.

The film extracted both pathos and cruel humor from the scenes of Zoolander's return home, when he entered the mines alongside his father and brothers and Voight's character expressed his unspoken disgust at his son's chosen profession.

Rabelais was by far Sterne's favourite author, and in his correspondence he made clear that he considered himself as Rabelais ' successor in humor writing, distancing himself from Jonathan Swift:

Basically everyone who was young between 1955 and 1975 read Mad, and that ’ s where your sense of humor came from.

The view presented in Seinfeld is arguably consistent with the philosophy of nihilism, the idea that life is pointless, and from which arises a feeling of the absurd that characterizes the show's ironic humor.

* University of Pennsylvania humor magazine the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl derived its name from this magazine.