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John Krasinski responds to Amy Schumer's joke that his marriage to Emily Blunt is for publicity - CNN

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  1. John Krasinski responds to Amy Schumer's joke that his marriage to Emily Blunt is for publicity  CNN
  2. John Krasinski Responds to Amy Schumer's Joke That He and Emily Blunt’s Marriage Is for Publicity  PEOPLE
  3. John Krasinski Reacts After Amy Schumer Jokes He and Emily Blunt Have a "Marriage for Publicity"  E! Online
  4. John Krasinski reacts to Amy Schumer's joke on his marriage  ANI News
  5. John Krasinski has THIS to say on Amy Schumer's joke about his 'pretend marriage' with Emily Blunt  PINKVILLA
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Conservative Brazilians don’t see humor in Pope Francis’s joke about country - Crux Now

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SÃO PAULO – A joke made by Pope Francis concerning the Brazilians spurred outrage among some groups in the South American country.

On May 26, Brazilian Father João Paulo Victor asked the pontiff to send a blessing to the Brazilians after the general audience in the Vatican. A video shows how Pope Francis jokingly told the priest in Italian: “There’s no salvation for you. Too much cachaça [a Brazilian sugarcane spirit] and no praying.” The pope then blessed Victor and another person.

Victor’s cheerful reaction to the comment was not different from its initial effect on most Brazilians. But after the video began to circulate in social media, a wave of criticism began to grow, mostly from backers of conservative President Jair Bolsonaro.

In a public letter on the pro-Bolsonaro website Jornal da Cidade Online, lawyer Jorge Béja asked Pope Francis to “apologize to Brazil and to Brazilians” after his “tough, untrue, cruel, and hurtful words” uttered during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“In a moment like that, of so much pain, you imply that not even the pope’s prayers will work because there’s no solution for us, Brazilians; we’re not worthy of the pope’s prayers, because we drink too much cachaça and pray too little,” he wrote.

Béja demanded an immediate apology from Pope Francis, stating that Brazilians are “a Christian people” and that Pope Francis was able to witness this fact during his visit to Brazil in the World Youth Day of 2013.

“Pope Francis, not even smiling, not even kidding, not even in a hilarious way, on no account and by no means you could say what you said,” the letter said.

The Facebook post of the letter on Jornal da Cidade Online’s page was shared more than 8,000 times and at least 18,000 people reacted to it.

In their comments, some connected Pope Francis to the former left-wing Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. They met in February of 2020 in the Vatican. Others called Pope Francis a “communist,” a frequent accusation from Bolsonaro’s supporters against the ones they identify as political opponents.

Some people said they missed the “Polish Pope”, in a reference to Pope Saint John Paul II, seen by the Brazilian right-wing as a more conservative pontiff.

The current political polarization in the country has often engulfed the Catholic Church, including the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference.

In fact, most of the criticism seems to be not directed to Pope Francis’s joke itself, but to his own figure, which Bolsonaro’s supporters connect to progressive politics.

That’s the case of the traditionalist Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Institute (IPCO), which was formerly part of the Brazilian Society in Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property.

According to spokesperson Frederico Viotti, IPCO has known of people who have been “effectively offended by such an unfortunate comment of Pope Francis.”

“Many [sick] Catholics are not having access to the sacraments. Even when they ask for a priest, they cannot get one. They end up having to face a possible death without even getting religious assistance. Those people surely were waiting for other kind of commentary [from the pope],” he told Crux.

Viotti pointed to the Brazilian “devotion and praying spirit” and said that any foreigner who visits the country can identify it. That’s why, he added, abortion could never be legalized in Brazil, while it’s now legal in Argentina, the pope’s homeland.

“For Catholics like us, it causes strangeness and bewilderment the fact that Pope Francis frequently has rough words to address countries governed by conservatives which, to a certain extent, fight the society’s dechristianization, while only rarely he shows criticism towards leftist governments,” Viotti said.

Bishop Devair Araújo da Fonseca of Piracicaba, in São Paulo State, knows Pope Francis’s sense of humor. One of his office’s pictures show him on a visit to the Pope in 2015. Both of them are laughing. “I said something, and he instantly made a joke,” he remembered.

In da Fonseca’s opinion, most of the people who have been criticizing the pope for his comment are not “dissatisfied with what he said, they only use anything that happens as an excuse” to criticize him.

“Pope Francis can be naturally spirited. It’s a positive thing. I think we’re losing our sense of humor,” he told Crux.

Da Fonseca stressed that the pope didn’t fail to bless the Brazilian priest after the joke, so there have been two different moments in that brief encounter. “At first he was kidding, then he blessed the man,” the bishop said.

Another important element to remember, da Fonseca added, is that the Latin American sense of humor is not the same as the European or the North American.

“Brazilians are able to laugh even during funerals. Why wouldn’t they laugh now? If we can’t find a moment to relax in a time like that, things will get even heavier than now,” he said.

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Graduation is a solemn event – so why funny hats? - Christian Science Monitor

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It’s that time of year when students dress up in gowns, don odd-looking hats that blow off in the slightest breeze, and listen to long speeches in uncomfortable chairs. Yes, it’s graduation season, and many of the words that come up around this time have intriguing backstories.  

The idea of graduation itself is interesting. It derives from the Latin noun gradus (a “step” or “stage”). Graduate also means “to mark with degrees of measurement,” per Merriam-Webster. Students use graduated cylinders – glass or plastic tubes with scales printed on the side – to measure the volumes of liquids in chemistry class. Likewise, graduation is a way of measuring students’ progress.

More frequently, graduation connotes the completion of a stage of education, or of life more generally. For example, parents might relate that their toddler has “graduated” from wearing diapers. When you graduate college (or graduate from college or were graduated from college – all are arguably correct, though the last is British), you move on to another phase of life, whether that’s the working world or more school. Many traditions have grown up around this transition, including one that mandates the wearing of a flat, square hat: the mortarboard

Graduates have been wearing these hats for centuries, long before they were referred to this way. They seem to have evolved in the Middle Ages from the biretta, a stiff three- or four-cornered hat worn by Roman Catholic clergy, which looks something like a lunchbox. In the past, they were required for nearly all college occasions, from lectures to dinners. Along with long academic robes, these hats distinguished “town” from “gown.” 

In the 16th century they were simply square caps or catercaps, cater being a spelling of quatre (the numeral “four” in French). They became mortarboards in the 19th century, because they really do resemble the thin square boards, like painters’ palettes, that bricklayers use to hold mortar when they move around.

This term first appeared in an 1854 novel in which a decidedly “town” fellow with a thick cockney accent ends up wearing such a cap and declares, “I don’t mind this ’ere mortar-board.” The university students think this is a great lark, but object to what they call the “offensive” name he gives their headgear – mortarboard is vulgar, in their opinion. The term probably spread, then, as a bit of a joke, self-depreciatory or otherwise. It punctures the balloon of academic gravitas and the ranking and distinguishing implied in graduation.

Don’t take yourself too seriously, mortarboard suggests. You’ve got a tool on your head, and it’s upside down. 

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Sunday, May 30, 2021

Local teens think six funny old people on HBO should do a whole sitcom together - Inquisitor Nashville

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Nashville, TN - Nashville teens Cassidy and Brianna were browsing HBO Max on Saturday when they came across a low-budget pilot featuring six old people just talking on a couch.

Initially, they were going to change it, but minutes into it, the BFFs agreed that they were not bad and ended up watching the whole pilot.

"They're pretty funny for old people," Cassidy told reporters. "I think they should do a whole show together."

"Old people are so cute. I would definitely watch another episode if they pick up the pilot," added Brianna.

The two girls agreed that if they made a sitcom where they were all friends living in the same apartment building, and a couple of them were vampires, it could be a huge hit on the CW.

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Puzzled by Dogecoin? The ABCs of a $90 Billion Joke: QuickTake - Bloomberg

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OTR: Does Speaker Mariano's bad joke during endorsement of Jon Santiago have legs? - WCVB Boston

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OTR: Does Speaker Mariano's bad joke during endorsement of Jon Santiago have legs?

>> THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER, FOR COMING ALL THE WAY TO THE SOUTH END. IT IS GREAT TO BE HERE WITH SO MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES. JANE GETTING HOUSE SPEAKER RON MARIANO’S ENDORSEMENT IS A BIG DEAL WHEN YOU’RE RUNNING FOR MAYOR OF BOSTON, BUT NOT WHEN IT WAS THAT BIT OF SOUND. DOES THIS MOMENT HAVE LEGS? >> STICK TO THE SCRIPT. RIGHT? THIS WAS A TOUGH ONE. IT WAS TOUGH PERCENT? -- IT WAS TOUGH FOR SANTIAGO. BASICALLY, THE EVENT BACKFIRED. I QUESTION HAVING THE EVENT IN THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE I’M NOT SURE HAVING THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE ENDORSE YOU AND I THE BOSTON DOES YOU VERY GOOD. >> IS A LONGTIME RESIDENT OF THAT NEIGHBORHOOD BEFORE IT IS THE COOL PLACE IT IS TODAY, DID NOT GO OVER WELL WITH ANYONE. SANTIAGO HAS GOTTEN PRECIOUS LITTLE COVERAGE. MMARIANO STEPPED ALL OVER IT. WALSH USED THAT STRATEGY AND HE WAS MAYOR. ED

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'Give him an inhaler!': Pirates joke after Stallings hits first career triple - WPXI Pittsburgh

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PITTSBURGH — A running joke in the Pirates’ clubhouse this year is who would win in a foot race, Colin Moran or Jacob Stallings.

On Saturday, Stallings became the first of the duo to triple this season, doing so in the sixth inning of the Pirates’ 4-0 win over the Rockies in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader at PNC Park.

Stallings barreled a fly ball to center, and after center fielder Yonathan Daza failed to catch up with it, his momentum carried him into left-center and out of the play. By the time the Rockies got the ball back into the infield, Stallings was close to third and was able to slide in safely:

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A funny thing happened on the way to the stadium -- Chelsea fan - Yahoo Sports

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Chelsea fan Jack Ambler will recall the Champions League win over Manchester City in more ways than one as his £450 ($638) ticket went to waste and he watched it with a Portuguese couple.

The 27-year-old travelled to Porto for the final with three friends.

However, while they made it to the stadium and witnessed Kai Havertz's first-half goal secure the 1-0 win over City he did not.

"Well, I had a ticket, £450, and I didn't make it into the stadium," he told BBC Sport.

Instead he somehow found himself watching the final -- which only 6000 Chelsea fans were able to attend due to coronavirus restrictions -- with a local couple.

"So I watched it round some Portuguese people's house, they were very nice," he said.

"I can remember being with Paulo and Nadina, they let me into their flat, and yeah I watched the game on their tablet."

One of his friends said they had no idea what happened to their errant companion.

"We had four tickets," he said.

"Us three made it and we just don't know what happened to him."

Ambler admitted he was non-plussed as to how the events had unfolded.

"It hasn't had a chance to sink in yet, but I'm happy nevertheless," he said.

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Help! I Overheard My Fiancée Make an Awful Joke About My Dead Parents. - Slate

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Our advice columnists have heard it all over the years. Each Sunday, we dive into the Dear Prudie archives and share a selection of classic letters with our readers. Join Slate Plus for even more advice columns—your first month is only $1.

Dear Prudence,

I accidentally overheard my fiancée telling a friend on the phone, “John might not have a lot of money, but at least he doesn’t have any parents to annoy me.” My parents both died in a car accident in my early 20s. Shocked by this comment, we took a short break afterward. My fiancée said that it was something stupid she said as a joke and that she was sincerely sorry and didn’t mean it. She and I have much history together, and I love her. Yet, even after getting back together, I can’t forget or totally forgive her for what she said. I may have been an adult when I lost my parents, but they were my whole world. Is it crazy to throw away a whole relationship based on this one comment?

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It’s not crazy. I have a fair amount of sympathy for your fiancée, who I don’t think is necessarily a secretly callous monster for making a grim joke about not having to deal with in-laws to a friend of hers, but I can also understand why this would haunt you. If you have a long history together and she has always treated you kindly and well, you must know on some level that she does care about you and is not secretly rejoicing at the death of your parents—that moment of gallows humor was not necessarily a reveal of her true, callous character but a way of acknowledging the painful reality of your situation to a friend.

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But if you don’t think you can forget it, tell her so. You can’t take her back only to secretly resent and suspect her for the rest of your lives. Tell her that what she said hit you very hard and that it hurt you to see her make light of the most painful experience of your life, even if she did not say it directly to you. You’re not crazy for entertaining doubts about your relationship, but I do think it would be a mistake not to at least try to move past this together. You would likely get a great deal out of a few weeks or months of couples counseling around this particular fight. Make it clear how much this has hurt you—don’t try to act like you’ve moved past it when you haven’t—and if her response is compassionate and apologetic, then I think you can trust her. Your parents may have been your whole world, but if she’s going to be a part of that world, you’re going to have to be able to fight and hurt one another and apologize and forgive. —Danny M. Lavery

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From: “Help! My Fiancée Made a Joke About My Dead Parents. Should I End Our Engagement?(Mar. 21, 2016)

Dear Prudence,

My wife and I met 16 years ago when she was 19 years old, we married three years later, and I have been faithful and happy with her. I know she had two boyfriends before me and that she had oral sex with one and intercourse with the other. Somehow I got the idea that she had been forced into the oral sex and didn’t enjoy it. So when she would attempt to do that to me I made her stop. She felt rejected and that has impeded both the frequency and her enjoyment of any form of sex with me. She recently clarified that she was the one who initiated the first oral encounter and that she liked it. As a result, we have enjoyed this activity more in the past few weeks than we had in the last several years. Every other element of our sexual relationship has also improved. But I’m incredibly jealous at the amount of sex she had before she met me, far more than I had before I met her. I’m nearly going insane that she performed oral sex five times more in three years on them than she has with me in 16. How do I move on so that I am not constantly thinking about these guys and the relative number of sexual encounters every time I have sex with my wife?

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I think you have solved the national crisis in math education. We might improve our high school graduation rates if math problems read like more like this: “Melissa performed five times more oral sex on her two boyfriends for the three years prior to meeting her husband Eric than she has performed on him in the subsequent 16 years. So how many blowjobs …” (I realize it’s more likely we simply would increase our high-school oral sex rate.) Your situation is an excellent demonstration of why the words that come out of your mouth can be as important as the organs that you put in it. To stop brooding over what your wife was doing in the backseat of the car more than a decade and a half ago, start blowing your horn to celebrate the end of your semicelibate marriage. You two were set to go through life feeling frustrated and rejected because of a silly misunderstanding. That your wife likes to give oral sex, that she’s crazy about sex generally, is a dramatic turnaround in your sexual fortunes, one that should enhance the quality of your marriage. So lighten up and embrace this new connection, instead of undermining it by focusing on the quantitive pleasing she once did. If you forced her to tally her extra curriculars, then shame on you. Since you’re clearly a numbers guy, turn the math to your advantage. Calculate how long it will take the two of you to surpass your wife’s previous record, and start humping toward that goal line. —Emily Yoffe

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From: “Help! My Wife Had More Sex Before Our Marriage Than I Did.” (Oct. 4, 2012)

Dear Prudence,

My husband and I have been married for 28 years, but our relationship has been at a brick wall for more than half of the marriage. For the past four years, we have lived under the same roof but completely separately, essentially as housemates. Up until now, I have made the decision to stay in the marriage because A) we have two daughters, both in their early 20s, and B) my husband is a pastor and I was once concerned about his image in the church community if we were to separate.

Aggression and worrisome behavior have now entered the equation, and we have both accepted that our union is no longer salvageable. I am ready to start dating and move on with my life, as my husband has been doing for more than half of our marriage, but he still isn’t ready to upset the church community with the news of our formal separation. Personally, I am done putting up a façade. I am ready to move on from not only the marriage, but also the church community, but ultimately I do want to be the bigger person and respect my husband’s image. How do I move on from the church in a respectful manner?

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He doesn’t have to do anything he doesn’t want to, and I think it’s very big of you not to want to tarnish his image, but that doesn’t mean you have to keep his secrets or lie for him anymore. You’re getting divorced, you’re moving on, and you’re ready to start dating. You can be honest without spreading the news in a salacious or punishing way; if anyone asks, tell the truth, but don’t go into detail. If the truth reflects badly on him, too bad for him.

It sounds like you’re interested in leaving this particular church for good; you’re not required to make an announcement or shake the dust of this unhappy marriage from your sandals at the church door. You can just leave. If there are particular friendships you plan on maintaining, or if you’re directly asked, you can keep your conversations about the end of your marriage honest without being unkind—“We’ve been separated for a long time, and have been housemates for the last four years. I’m ready to move on and start seeing other people, but I wish him the best.” Your husband’s image is no longer your problem. Just don’t go out of your way to discredit or smear him, and you’ll have more than achieved your goal of being the bigger person. —DL

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From: “Help! I Want Out of My Marriage and My Church—but My Husband’s the Pastor.” (Mar. 22, 2016)

Dear Prudence,

Recently, my partner’s lifelong best friend and his wife were killed in a car accident, leaving us with custody of both of their children. They are two wonderful girls ages 4 and 2 and we love them dearly and are happy to have them. Both of them are comfortable with us since we spent a great deal of time together before their parents passed away, but we did not have any children of our own and we are taking a crash course in parenting. At this moment, I have two main concerns. One of them is that we are not sure how to help them understand what has happened. My partner and I are confirmed atheists, and although our friends were not seriously religious, they did have some spiritual beliefs and we are not sure whether they would want us to teach their daughters that they’ve gone to heaven or follow our own instincts to say that even though mom and dad loved them more than anything, they’re simply not coming back. Another concern is that before this happened, my partner and I were trying to conceive a child of our own. We’ve decided it’s best to hold off on this for a while because we believe it would be too much for the girls (and us at this moment) to handle after such a loss. How much time does it take for a child to adjust to such a thing? Should we give up on the idea at present?

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What a crushing loss for these tiny girls to absorb. Amid this tragedy, they are lucky that you and your partner are there to provide them with love and security. Making such guardianship arrangements is a responsibility of parenthood; let this be a spur to those who haven’t done so. As your case illustrates, the best guardians might not be family members, but dear and trusted friends. You now have a large task ahead in becoming an instant family and creating a good life for two confused and frightened little girls. For advice on what you should tell them, and what you should do about expanding your family, I turned to Dr. David Schonfeld, director of the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. He said there are four painful but essential truths that have to be conveyed age-appropriately to children who have suffered such a loss: Death is irreversible; all life functions end completely at death; everything alive eventually dies; there are physical reasons someone dies. Schonfeld is co-author of this pamphlet that gives instruction on how to explain these difficult concepts. While acknowledging people’s belief in heaven, he says conveying that to children, especially very young ones, can cause tremendous confusion. It’s difficult to grasp the idea that your parents no longer exist here, but are in some other realm out of reach. Since you and your partner are atheists, and your late friends didn’t have a strong religious tradition, I think you should follow your own instincts about keeping things simple and factual. The girls’ parents knew of your lack of religious belief and still chose you. As the girls grow up, if they develop an interest in religion, you can decide the best way to respect and foster that.

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You do not mention that you are under the immediate pressure of a biological clock, so I agree with Schonfeld when he says now is the time to focus on making yourselves a family and seeing the girls through a traumatic transition. After you feel settled into being a unit, for which there isn’t a timetable, you and your partner can explore the question of whether you want to add another child and when. Bear in mind that the loss your girls have suffered is something they will deal with for the long term. It won’t always be the primary focus as it is now for everyone, but it will echo through the years. Schonfeld says that with the help of the strong, loving, committed family you will be, the loss the girls suffered will simply be a part of their understanding of themselves, and will not keep them from forging happy lives. —EY

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From: “Help! Our Friends Died in a Car Crash and Left Us Their Kids.” (Apr. 25, 2013)

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I have been mostly happily married for 13 years. My husband and I get along really well, and I love him very much. That being said, he is not the most affectionate person anymore. We used to cuddle a lot when we were first married and I have told him how much I miss it. He says he doesn’t enjoy it because it’s too hot. He’ll make an effort to snuggle while watching TV sometimes if I ask, but I can tell while we’re doing it that he is counting the minutes until he can stop. About a month ago, I was having a very bad day at work and a male co-worker/friend told me I looked like I could use a hug. Prudie, I did need a hug and he gave me one and I started crying because I couldn’t remember the last time I had received nonsexual affection from someone without begging. My co-worker asked why I was crying and when I told him he said he loved his wife very much, but she wasn’t affectionate either and he knew exactly how I was feeling. Since that day we’ve been meeting in his or my office after work a couple of times a week to hug each other. And that’s all we do—there is no groping or kissing or even talking going on, we just hold each other for five to 10 minutes and then we go home. I like having a hug buddy and I’ve found my relationship with my husband is actually getting stronger because I am not so needy for affection from him. Of course, I have not told him about hugging my co-worker and I’m sure if I did he’d be upset, but I don’t feel like what I’m doing is cheating. Is it?

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Sunday Reading: The Funny Parts - The New Yorker

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In the early years of The New Yorker, humor of all shapes and sizes filled the magazine—sketches, parodies, satirical Comments and Fiction, and more. Harold Ross, the editor, had stated in the magazine’s prospectus that, although The New Yorker might include wit and satire, it would be more than simply “a jester.” That prediction has proved accurate. In the decades since, even as the magazine has become known for its far-reaching investigations and features, it has retained a lively through line of playfulness and whimsy, in the form of Shouts & Murmurs and cartoons.

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This week, we’re bringing you a medley of humor pieces—including, we hope, some surprises. In “About (Almost Surely) New York, or Something,” Nora Ephron’s first contribution to The New Yorker, the writer lends her dry wit to a parody of a newspaper column about Manhattan neighborhoods. (“ ‘Nobody in this column ever has a name!’ she cried, waving her Times in the air. ‘None of the stories in this column ever has a point!’ ”) In “A Short Autobiography,” a young novelist named F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the stages of his life by cherished vintage. (“1928: The Pouilly with Bouillabaisse at Prunier’s in a time of discouragement.”) In “LGA—ORD,” Ian Frazier imagines how the playwright Samuel Beckett might have depicted air travel. In “Just a Little One,” Dorothy Parker describes a night on the town that begins swimmingly and quickly devolves. (“You know what I like about this place? It’s got atmosphere. That’s what it’s got. If you would ask the waiter to bring a fairly sharp knife, I could cut off a nice little block of the atmosphere, to take home with me.”) In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” James Thurber presents his classic tale of a man who perceives his journey through the world as much more wondrous than it actually is. In “Closure,” Steve Martin pursues an intense longing for a sense of completion. (“Too many loose ends. But she wanted closure. I explained that because so many people in my life weren’t taking responsibility, it became impossible for me to accept my own responsibility.”) Finally, in “How to Be Obscene,” Upton Sinclair offers an ingenious idea for authors looking to create a stir. (“If it were necessary to write really obscene books, I wouldn’t recommend this plan, because real obscenity is altogether foreign to my interests. But the beauty of the plan is that you don’t have to write anything really harmful; all you have to do is to follow the example of the great masters of the world’s literature, and deal with the facts of life frankly and honestly.”)

Humor is sometimes seen as a literary afterthought, though its pleasures are always in demand. We hope that these pieces offer you enjoyment, and a bit of relief, this holiday weekend.

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Welcome aboard the flight from nothingness to New York’s Laguardia non non non non non non nonstop to Chicago’s Ohare.

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“This matter is of such great importance to authors that I am sure they will want full particulars, seeing that I am here on the ground, and have got all the data.”

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‘Bo Burnham: Inside’ Review: A Brilliant Pandemic-Era Special About Trying to Be Funny in Sad Times - IndieWire

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How do you craft escapism when escape is no longer an option? Bo Burnham turned the camera on himself. The lanky comedian-turned-filmmaker has been delivering wry musical standup work since his teen years, but the pandemic forced him to reconsider his approach. While “Bo Burnham: Inside” has been billed as a surprise Netflix comedy special from a guy who has made a few them, it’s actually a far stranger and profound feature-length immersion into the anxieties of a year when the very idea of a “comedy special” sounded like a lost cause. The result is more Charlie than Andy Kaufman, as “Inside” becomes less about messing with the audience than plunging them into the contours of Burnham’s conflicted mind, mining brilliant and scathing observations in the process.

Burnham wrote, directed, edited, and starred in this minimalist musical fantasia, shot exclusively in his home in Los Angeles over the past year, and the result is an impressive one-man technical feat loaded with surreal twists and dense commentary under the veneer of sophomoric gags.

Burnham churns out cheeky vulgar tunes that sound like “Sesame Street” by way of George Carlin, but the overarching premise clarifies the young comic storyteller’s emerging worldview in striking terms. With his acclaimed feature debut “Eighth Grade” behind him, Burnham has essentially crafted a microbudget feature about the last man on Earth coming to terms with a reality that has already slipped beyond his grasp. Quarantined and disheveled from the first scene, he careens through oddball melodies and monologues about modern times, resulting in a hilarious crisis of consciousness gone wild.

From the moment he emerges at his keyboard, in a bland room illuminated brash white lights, Burnham’s frustrations with the nature of modern entertainment take hold. The same guy who became a YouTube phenomenon at 16 has grown weary of what it means to keep audiences hooked to distract them from life’s darker truths. “Open wide,” he sings, “Here comes some content. It’s a beautiful day to stay inside.” Before long, he’s shifted to a chorus that includes the lyrics “What the fuck is going on” as he repeatedly hits a laugh track button. Eventually, he addresses the camera to explain his intent to make a comedy show with the quarantine tools at his immediate disposal — or basically destroy himself in the process. Just above his charming grin lurks an eerie stare, and the ensuing ride lingers between those two extremes, as Burnham comes mighty close to amusing himself to death.

It’s not the subtlest conceit, but these aren’t subtle times, and Burnham’s barrage of visuals and inspired tunes amount to pitch-perfect gallows humor for an era that thrives on maximalism at every turn. With his overgrown beard and unkempt hair, this scrawny 6’5″ man (who’s set to play Larry Bird in an upcoming HBO special) cuts an obvious messianic figure and mocks that impression with fiery persistence. Announcing the absurdity of “a white like me healing the world through comedy,” Burnham goes on to show that laughter isn’t a balm; it’s a defense mechanism, and in his case, the darkness keeps seeping in.

Clocking in at just under 90 minutes, “Bo Burnham: Inside” sometimes adopts the listless quality of the quarantine routine at its center. However, whether or not you embrace the weird tonal shifts and abrupt transitions between vignettes, the experience is a constant audiovisual thrill. From shifting aspect ratios to split screens, gorgeous experiments with light and shadows and an array of musical effects, Burnham has built an intricate tapestry of cinematic devices to deepen the psychological intrigue in play. But in the midst of the chaotic display, complex ideas burst into the frame from unexpected directions. In one of his strongest bits, he gets into a seething argument with a Marxist hand puppet about the genocidal undertones of Western civilization; in another, a bebop tune about unpaid interns expands into a metaphysical hall-of-mirrors sequence, with Burnham watching himself onscreen, trying to make sense of what he’s doing here — only to tumble further down the rabbit hole.

Burnham’s previous stage work has included some insubstantial punchlines that rely on the shock value of edgy subject matter (hey, here’s a gay joke!), which often worked against the obvious multimedia talent on display. Here, as he turns 30 on camera and contemplates a dark future, he finds a happy medium between the silly-strange nature of his stage presence and the advanced storytelling instincts evident from “Eighth Grade.” As with that movie, he fixates on the dangerous allure of shutting the world out in an era of on-demand distractions. And in this case, he’s the distraction. “Apathy is a tragedy and boredom is a crime,” he sings. “Can I interest you in everything all the time?”

Burnham’s work here shares some DNA with Maria Bamford’s 2012 “The Special Special,” shot in her home with an audience exclusively composed of her parents. Yet “Bo Burnham: Inside” has no exact precedent since its entire tone emerges from an unprecedented moment in human history. His maniacal, passive-aggressive screen presence suggests he’s grown cynical about creating art in a world that reduces it to pure capitalist product. But he also excels at subverting those boundaries. Burnham is hardly the Jesus figure he looks like, but he’s certainly some kind of mad prophet for crazy times. He may be conflicted about the world these days, but there’s much to glean from watching him make sense of it.

Grade: A-

“Bo Burnham: Inside” is now streaming on Netflix.

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20 People Who Are Huge, Huge Liars (But Also Funny AF) - BuzzFeed

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Not using Doritos as a cheat sheet...

1. This mom, who lied to expose a thief:

So my mom saw that her eggs were missing at work so she posted this note. Later some white dude came to her stressed af for the antidote thinking he was going to die 😭😭😭 ngl this is genius

Twitter: @_kamoafo

3. These kids, who hacked their mom and sent messages to their dad:

my kids figured out the password to my wife's computer and have been sending me these texts as if they were from her

Twitter: @CruzKayne

4. This person, who was deceptive for a pretty good reason:

5. This dad pretended he was the prime minister of Morocco to get a reservation:

My dad wanted to make a reservation at a restaurant and they told him that they were completely booked, minutes later he called back claiming to be the prime minister of Morocco..... we got the best table in the place and the chef answer him to sign a plate and take a pic w him😭

6. This girl and her friends, who definitely had her back:

7. This best friend, who pretended to be a guy to make her friend's ex jealous:

8. This student, who had his friends' backs when they weren't in class:

9. This nurse, who played a prank:

Tell me why the drug test lady decided telling me I was positive for cocaine was an appropriate April Fool’s joke

10. These friends, who are deceptive geniuses:

11. And this person, who was deceptive but creative:

We moved into new offices, but this wall has been left open for a few weeks now. I knew what I had to do.

12. This guy was blatantly dishonest, but it's still pretty funny:

13. And then we have this hilariously deceptive second grader:

14. This granddaughter tricked security, but for the best reason:

15. This child, who tried to hide his thievery:

16. This student cheated in the most iconic way:

17. And this friendship was formed over cheating:

18. And this student defined deception by impersonating their professor postponing an exam:

19. This kid, who's an ice cream scammer:

I’m babysitting my 2 yr old nephew today and when I told him he couldn’t eat ice cream for breakfast he told me “you’re not my best friend anymore” so we compromised and now he’s on his second bowl of ice cream and I’ve gained the title “best friend in the whole wide world”

Twitter: @mic22ken

20. And finally, these two tried to sneak into the movie theater for the price of one:

We tried getting the two for one special at black panther. The manager was not having it.

In conclusion, deception can be bad but also sooo good:

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Avatar: The Last Airbender: 10 Funniest Quotes From The Series - Screen Rant

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A Funny Thing Happened When I Spoke to High School Students About My Career in Photography - Fstoppers

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This is another brief story about the possibility of progress over the course of a photography career.Just last week, I found myself forced to abandon my rather comfortable perch behind the camera to take a rather less unexposed position in front of it. The reason I was suddenly the star of my own show was less out of a desire to feed my own marginal celebrity and more specifically due to a commitment I somehow found myself obliged to perform.My high school alma mater had asked me to create a message for the students about my career as a professional photographer and filmmaker as part of a profile they were doing on me, something for those students who might be considering a career in the field to look at to better understand what they would be getting themselves into. It could either be written or because I’m in a visual career, I could record it. Having just gotten in the new Aputure Nova P300C, I figured I might take the opportunity to combine this task with a little lighting practice and a chance to try out the various modes made possible by the new toy.I also knew that I already had the light set up on a stand for another project, so it wouldn’t require a great deal of effort to simply flip it on and get going, not that I was unwilling to put in the effort. But admittedly, the amount of effort I deemed necessary for this task was being governed by its relatively low position on my to-do list. So, rather than carefully crafting a script, I instead decided to just plop myself in front of the camera, get to rambling, and see what happened.In the end, it came out fine. Not perfect. But then again, I didn’t want it to be perfect. I wanted it to be honest. I wanted to share what I could of my story so that the students would get a real sense of what I’ve wanted to do and/or had to do so far. But the quality of the final video itself isn’t the funny part of the story that I wished to write about today. Instead, the ironic part didn’t happen until after I’d finished chopping down my ramblings into some semblance of cohesive thought.As with any project, I backed up the work in three places: two on site, one in the cloud. When I went to back up this particular project I gave it a working name of Origin Story, as that seemed to be the most accurate description of the final result. Then, I opened up my backup drive and commenced to drag the folder across to make a copy. At this point, I got the rather peculiar message that such a folder already existed on my backup drive and did I want to overwrite it. I say “peculiar” because despite being well acquainted with my own work, I had absolutely no recollection of having shot an Origin Story project before. So, I hit cancel and went looking for the original folder.I quickly realized that I did indeed already have a folder called Origin Story. I opened it up and found a video file in it from 2018. I clicked the file and was suddenly jolted by a rush of memory. I don’t remember exactly why I had done so at the time. But, as it turns out, three years ago, I had apparently attempted to make the exact same sort of video. What was so striking about that was not how little my stories have changed in the last three years, but rather how simply awful the video looked. And I mean it looked terrible, from lighting to composition to post-production.  Absolutely nothing was at a level that I would find acceptable today. Surely, this is why this video, for whatever reason I made it, never found its way to a permanent place on my website. But what made its shortcomings even more noticeable is that I had now inadvertently made the exact same video three years later with such superior production value that it’s hard to believe that it was created by the same hand.Now, I want to be clear. When I say superior production value, I am not saying that it would win an Academy Award. Even within my own standards, I put very little effort into the video. As I said, it was part rambling, part light test. I hardly emptied the grip truck. So, don’t get the impression I’m patting myself on the back too much. Sir Roger Deakins still has exactly zero to worry about. But this apples-to-apples comparison did give me enough confidence to say that if I, as Christopher Malcolm today, had to compete against the Christopher Malcolm of three years ago, I’m pretty sure I could whip his butt.More plainly put, the accidental comparison drove home the fact that I am making progress. It was a tangible reminder that hard work pays off. The improved appearance of the video in comparison to its predecessor wasn’t just by chance. It was the direct result of having put in the effort to practice, to study, and to consciously try to improve my skill set. Sure, the video itself is nothing more than a talking headpiece. And even when I really do set my mind to things, I still have more to learn and more room to grow. But, in a way, that’s the exciting part of what we get to do.Dr. Eric Thomas has a speech where he talks about how improvement is a continual process and it can’t be rushed. As an example, he points out that you can’t be 21 years old at age 18. In other words, things are going to take as long as they need to take. Milestones are going to occur on their schedule, not yours. All you can control is the amount of work you put in to make sure that you are reaching the goals that you set out to accomplish.So, while it’s not entirely impossible that three years from now, I will be making yet another Origin Story video having completely forgotten about both of the previous ones, the point of the journey is not so much to reach the final destination but to improve along the way. We can all improve and get better. So, whatever point you find yourself at in your creativity or your career today is but a prologue of what’s to come.In a world where we want everything and we want it right now, that can be an easy lesson to forget. But one thing that my adventure with nearly accidentally overwriting an old file last week taught me is that practice does pay off. And while we are better today than we were yesterday, with a little hard work, there is no telling how much better we can be tomorrow. 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The Warriors' season is over and the end-of-year media availability sessions have taken place.

The next big event on the calendar -- the draft lottery -- is not until June 22.

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First and foremost, you can't ask for a better ending from Klay Thompson. Perfectly on-brand.

Secondly, Nico Mannion eats blocks of cheese for snacks?

Third, Alen Smailagic is a smart man.

RELATED: Why Wiggins' defense didn't actually exceed Kerr's expectations

Fourth, we deserve to see James Wiseman face Klay in a game of chess.

And last but not least, Andrew Wiggins calling Eric Paschall his son is hilarious.

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