Humor

Humor

ARMY Twitter was aflutter with accusations that the warm-up comic for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon made a racist joke. He said, 'Anybody here from the North? No? Nobody?' Fans interpreted that as being directed at the band, implying that one of them was from North Korea.

The president and his pals in the MAGA media are not happy with me right now. Trump even called in to Fox to complain about me tonight.

Markwayne Mullin, the new Homeland Security Secretary, demonstrated how to clean a garbage disposal in a vintage commercial, showcasing his plumbing expertise. Cain remarked that this background makes Mullin a great DHS secretary.

It's time for 2026 California to wake up to the fact that Sib, Joe Sib, is a contender for the Best of Us Award. It's wildly rare to have an artist like Sib who crosses over from being in the early punk rock scene to co-founding SideOneDummy Records and discovering talent like Flogging Molly.

Asking obvious questions can seem odd, especially to a clueless teenager. However, the value of talking about small things can have big benefits.

Reacher, in Reacher, is generally righteous, but the code that he follows serves mostly to offer him one shortcut after another to outlandishly brutal violence.

Dario Fo's genius lay in his ability to merge political and popular theatre, bringing satire to the masses through his multifaceted roles in the arts. His works, particularly Accidental Death of an Anarchist, achieved global acclaim and earned him the Nobel Prize for literature in 1997.

In the end, a comedy show leaves you with a feeling that tells you whether it worked or not. The general feeling... will be that the inaugural episode of Saturday Night Live UK did work.

"Because if people ask you, 'Do you have a beer?' you say, 'Yeah, yeah. It's next to the truffle in the refrigerator.'"

Robertson explained that language can have certain cues, often termed 'micro-cultures,' where meanings differ in specific locations. For example, a community might refer to a restaurant as 'the corner spot' instead of its actual name.

Content creators on platforms like TikTok and YouTube often resort to euphemisms to avoid censorship, such as using terms like 'sewer slide' instead of directly mentioning suicide. This self-censorship seems pointless when the audience understands the meaning behind these phrases.

Church allegedly joked about poisoning Fowler, saying, 'Oh yeah, that's one of our jokes: I joke about poisoning him.' This remark is central to the prosecution's case.

Two-thirds of the attempts at humour during these talks fell flat, drawing either polite chuckles or no laughter at all. Almost one-quarter of attempted jokes were judged as a "moderate success", eliciting audible laughter from around half the audience. Only 9% prompted most or all of the attendees to laugh enthusiastically.

I chose my words poorly, and I understand why it upset people. I'm sorry to anyone who was offended. That's not how I want to represent myself. I have some close friends in the LGBTQ+ community who I would never want to feel less of themselves because of what I said, and that's exactly why I should hold myself to a higher standard.

No offence to the actor but the way he played that part was a cartoon. He was two-dimensional. And the thing that bothered me most... we were so afraid to create a gay character on a kid's television show.

So, I was very pleased that Oscars host Conan O'Brien didn't follow up last year's "wasting time" musical sequence with an equally useless bit to open the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday night. Instead, the 76-year-old stuck to his strengths as one of the funniest comedians alive.

Come early and make a night of it with happy hour from 5-7 pm before the show. Then settle in for an 70+ minute standup show featuring comics who've appeared at clubs and festivals including Cobb's, Punch Line, San Jose Improv, Rooster T. Feathers, Tommy T's, and more.

Officer Scott was sort of born by accident. He was a character in a sketch I wrote, written for a male actor, but I always would direct to give more Chris Farley energy to the character. Unfortunately, the actor that was supposed to play Officer Scott became sick the day before the show, but as showrunner and writer of the sketch, I figured I'd buy a costume and perform Scott myself.

I haven't lost those apprehensions...I mean, I used to get into fights when I was a kid in the locker room. They'd kid me about that. I'd say, 'Don't call me that!' and I'd fight them. It was a sore spot as a child. And then adults stopped doing it. But it lurks, and for them [the Kellogg commercial creative crew] to find it was, in itself, a kind of discovery.

Before the idea was announced, one of my coworkers, a PR guy, shared the idea-my idea-with the CEO and CMO. While he didn't exactly say he'd done the work himself, how he talked about it made it seem like it was all his.