Crucially, they also made me feel better about being a rather humorless person, seeing how the protagonist is even more humorless and sensitive.
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Yeah, you have Degrassi, it was honest but so humorless.
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She's erudite, with catholic interests, and earnest but not humorless.
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Generally, "Cop Out" was called "slow" and "humorless" by critics.
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This humorless book whispers when you wish it would scream.
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Despite this, many people believe people with autism are humorless.
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He was stiff, humorless and obsessively guarded at news conferences.
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K., so those sentences are themselves strikingly earnest and humorless.
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Both of us are political, but not humorless or extreme.
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To haters trolls and humorless people-you really shouldn't follow me.
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It is not flippant, as humorless New York liberals tell me.
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Oh you humorless wretch, your name is synonymous w failure. YEEEEEEHAAAAWWWWWW!!!
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"Super Capers" (2009) was given bad reviews for its humorless script.
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But what follows in "The Turning" is humorless — and scare-free.
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But Voyage is a slog—humorless, dense with cliché, and very long.
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" The one for UX researchers describes them as "dry, dour, humorless beasts.
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This is all just harmless fun, you humorless dipshit, one might say.
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Inevitably, the orange-haired bloviator responded with a humorless tirade on Twitter.
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A warning for the easily offended or humorless: Do not scroll down.
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Diana Trilling told him that the book was "crudely boastful" and humorless.
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Both Gabes are dogged by a humorless administrator who targets their students.
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Bless a man who can find humor in an otherwise humorless situation.
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He is competent but humorless, a party functionary, not a political visionary.
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" The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described him as "embittered, humorless, ever more isolated.
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Even the sweetly inoffensive Ellen Degeneres recently felt the heat of the humorless.
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Rubio came across as humorless and earnest to the point of being insufferable.
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Make no bones about it—this is as utterly humorless as music gets.
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Critics panned the film for being humorless and for having a thin premise.
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The star-filled comedy was dragged by critics for being overstuffed and humorless.
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She is predictably partisan, shallow and humorless; completely devoid of charm or style.
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Critics felt that "All I Want for Christmas" (1991) was a humorless ride.
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Arthur: The most terrible part of this election is how humorless it has become.
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All the soldiers were stone-faced and humorless, even when showered with local hospitality.
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The proper way to respond to your visitors' rudeness is with a humorless silence.
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Actually good, if, for nothing else, exposing the party-poopers and humorless among us.
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But the State of Alabama is humorless when it comes to write-in votes.
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He looks like he's having fun, while his opponents appear humorless in their indignation.
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This is just for a laugh, it's just a joke, stop being so humorless.
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I'm imagining a humorless Korean security chief berating her charges for their lapse in vigilance.
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This was a compelling text that turned into more than an hour of humorless shouting.
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I think that both sides of the political spectrum have some humorless elements to them.
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By the early Eighties, punk had morphed into either floofy new wave or humorless hardcore.
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Now it's those humorless people who may start to take their star charts Extremely Seriously.
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It is obvious that responding with such po-faced opprobrium is humorless in the extreme.
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On Monday morning, Mr. Rubio was unusually listless and humorless during a town-hall-style meeting.
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Photo: Gizmodo, Illustration: GizmodoCongratulations, you made it through the humorless hellscape that is April Fool's Day.
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And you thought Captain America: Civil War was going to be the first humorless Marvel movie.
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If there's one accusation it's impossible to level against Drake, it's that he's a humorless guy.
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Interestingly, there is an academic literature hypothesizing that conservatives are humorless stiffs while liberals are superfun.
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But I think as far as criticizing them, it seems rather pointless, because it's very humorless.
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Trump, meanwhile, simply died onstage, and even got booed when his jibes turned into humorless insults.
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They try to shake Obama's humorless secret service agent, wear ridiculous disguises and bicker like siblings.
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The shift in tone between episodes is slightly jarring; Getty's Sutton Place was humorless and formal.
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Despite Mr. Yen's impressive physical virtuosity, his stoic, often humorless presence tends to neutralize the emotional temperature.
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"The sanctimonious and humorless finger-wagging of nanny state progressivism in one tweet," wrote conservative Bill Kristol.
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Give credit to British actress/comedian Sally Phillips, with her clipped, deadpan line readings: so humorously humorless.
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Italo Calvino tried it and, caught jaywalking and lacking a passport, was hassled by a humorless cop.
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It is not too late to undo the damage our humorless president is causing to American democracy.
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In any case, the humorless simplifications of "Tiburones" are at odds with the rest of Ballet Hispánico's program.
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Rex Tillerson's State Department is a cold and humorless vacuum, in which laughter suffocates, and smiles are forbidden.
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I actually find it's very important because I'm actually amazed at how humorless most people are in this business.
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Initially, I was impressed by how little sommeliers resembled the stereotype of a humorless man in a pinstripe suit.
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Quest gatekeeper Lord Saladin is over-earnest, humorless, and stiffed with lines that even hermit-living superhumans wouldn't say.
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But why am I so humorless, when the father's ridiculous behavior inspired in my child unbridled expressions of delight?
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"It was a test to see if liberals are really as slow and humorless as people claim," Carlson said.
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Modern Love the show is an anthology—discrete stories united by an overarching sensibility of rigorous, almost humorless, sincerity.
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Avoid smoking, drugs, Bensonhurst, the Gaza Strip, bungee jumping, humorless people, bad music, fashion, weight training and hair care products.
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My problem with the Catacombs fight, and several of the other group combats, was that they feel humorless and identical.
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The rulers of hell are grotesque, petty, and humorless, unable to grasp Crowley's achievements, because they don't understand modern technology.
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That fight comes late in the game, and it's so grim, humorless, and vicious, it stops being thrilling early on.
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Bald and stocky, Mr. Dagan was regarded by reporters as humorless, though always eager to court them, and readily outspoken.
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Arthur: One thing we would probably agree on is that people on the extremes of both sides are pretty humorless.
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Advice from the Enlightenment: In the face of crude bullying and humorless lies, try wit and a passion for justice.
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For most of their history they had a reputation, at least among their gentile neighbors, for being humorless and glum.
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Though she's hardly humorless, it seems to irk her just a little that she's not going ten-for-ten every time.
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Jamison is close to humorless as a writer, and she rubs and rubs our noses in her bad-girl bona fides.
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"I love the notion of a humorless feminist because the women I know laugh about the absolutely darkest shit," Belsky says.
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Maybe the trick to enjoying South Park as I get older, and become a soft, humorless grown-up, is to compartmentalize.
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Halfway through our session, a humorless employee, unlit cigarette in his mouth, dumps a new basket of shrimp into the pool.
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Always it was with slightly humorless-looking women who appeared to be in a condition of vague disbelief about the world.
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By the 1970s, Germans flush with marks became figures of fun, on British TV at least, for their humorless, entitled demeanor.
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Late in an early episode of Castle Rock, the show chooses a humorless moment to poke a little fun at the audience.
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Bernie, a rather humorless 75, ultimately lacked the organizational chops, speechmaking ability, resources, name recognition, or breadth of vision to upset Hillary.
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Typically a comedic actor, McBride himself was surprised that Ridley Scott approached him for a role in this humorless sci-fi film.
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They are so humorless and becoming so boring and predictable that at some point the body politic will just shrug them off.
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As hypnotic and well directed as "American Crime" was, it was also nearly humorless, requiring you to submit yourself to its methods.
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During his CNN days, Carlson described O'Reilly as a "thin-skinned blowhard" and a "humorless phony," but now the two must coexist.
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Here, Korath is a high-ranking member of Starforce, but just as humorless and "machine-like," as Hounsou puts it, as you remember.
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One reviewer praised Hobsbawm's memoir for its reticence about his personal life, a reticence that Evans, for all his humorless manner, doesn't emulate.
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Had the artist formerly known as Posh Spice, routinely caricatured by British tabloids as a humorless mannequin, just made a self-aware joke?
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Compare him with Hitler, the dank, sexless, humorless, milk-drinking vegetarian invert, nursing dreams, in his Viennese flophouse, of Judaeocide and world domination.
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Replacing their childhood comedy idols with women was a kind of narrative murder, committed by a cabal of Hollywood moguls and humorless feminists.
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While there, he occasionally played Officer Judy, a no-nonsense, humorless cop who once rode a motorcycle onstage to give Liberace a ticket.
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His Boston accent, bizarre earnestness, and staccato mannerisms are same ones Andy Samberg ridiculed on Saturday Night Live to a humorless reception from Wahlberg.
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But the rest of Rock's material largely amounted to mocking actors like Sean Penn (for being humorless) and Jude Law (for being a nobody).
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It had me mooing in no time at all, and I'm the sort of humorless grump that isn't easily induced into making animal noises.
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Iron Fist, at its center, The Defenders ends up sidelining its most charismatic characters in favor of the humorless, the corny, and the dull.
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It's his characters that tend to be a little flat and somewhat humorless, a criticism that "Justice League" labors to address, with mixed results.
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Adler was lawyerly, certainly, running down Kael's every repeated trope and overused word, but her attack was as humorless as Kael's reviews are pleasurable.
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As I labored away at humorless story lines about love triangles, I kept joking that I would someday write a book called The Babysitters Coven.
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" Bret Stephens, foreign affairs columnist for the conservative Wall Street Journal, said Trump's speech was "a relentless, unyielding, humorless, hectoring appeal to fear and loathing.
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Spall's version of Paisley is a humorless, unmoving, angry Protestant minister with a scriptural rejoinder for every one of McGuinness's statements, no matter how innocuous.
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Kris Lemche and David Alpay play the veteran cameramen, Mia Faith is the young newbie on their crew, and Carrie Genzel plays the humorless boss.
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Others pointed to its fearmongering, like Wall Street Journal reporter Bret Stephens: This speech is a relentless, unyielding, humorless, hectoring appeal to fear and loathing.
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Millenials are coming of age in an broadly humorless and litigious corporate atmosphere, where the smallest offense can get you fired suddenly and without warning.
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More than a dozen years later, at a magazine-sponsored gathering of sixties radicals, Lenny is the most self-important and humorless of the lot.
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Their replacement is a humorless but handsome apparatchik, Gleb (Ramin Karimloo, a veteran of grand operas, looking embarrassed), who finds himself strangely drawn to Anya.
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"Humorless is better than being senseless about Dane County providing 73% of new jobs in WI. Perhaps a $175K salary distorts your views," Pocan tweeted.
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The movie, filled with rainbows — and tension over some of the more poisonous and humorless elements of adult life — is a bit like that explosion.
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Despite its potential, Another Life just feels like a generic, humorless space adventure that's likely to crash and burn long before it unravels its big mysteries.
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In my experience, protesting these notes carries with it the risk that teachers won't support you, and that your peers will think of you as humorless.
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In another thoroughly unsurprising development, it brought out some humorless dipshits who seemed to accuse her of bad parenting for apparently only feeding her kids pasta.
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This album cemented Wayne's reputation for rapping about his money, bowel movements, and cunnilingus like the topics were an endless game of increasingly humorless Mad Libs.
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The Philadelphia choreographer and performer returns to this Brooklyn space with "At Home With the Humorless Bastard," which uses audience participation to explore grief and intimacy.
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For the past decade, the humorless people of the world were the ones most likely to spoil the fun by pointing out that astrology isn't real.
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But even then, you might find yourself guessing everything that happens before it does, and the ultra-glum, humorless tone would probably be a turn-off.
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This battle, which male candidates don't face, is nearly impossible to win; too much or too little smiling and she could be perceived as glib or humorless.
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Though a devoted husband and stepfather—he married a wealthy woman when he was 45—he was known for being humorless and uncompromising, with a nervous temperament.
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Archer's best friend, John Anderson, is a humorless "apprentice bike-frame builder" with a concentration in math whom we see neither building bikes nor concentrating on numbers.
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They went north, became lecturers, and there was something about their earnest, sweet, humorless determination that allowed them to get away with the political equivalent of murder.
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Bloomberg ran for president on his reputation as a technocratic CEO who ran New York with the same kind of humorless efficiency that made him his fortune.
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"Rogan's transphobia harm a community whose rights are actively under attack right now," added Alexis Goldstein, a writer, organizer and co-host of the "Humorless Queers" podcast.
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He is not humorless, but he does often wear an expression of some asperity, which I took as his signature combination of German restraint and Japanese restraint.
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Because a surrogate could meet the basic requirements but still be an asshole, or a narcissist, or boring, or racist, or homophobic, or humorless, or a Trump supporter.
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Man's Country wore its history on its walls, with portraits of famous patrons, nude men, and other artwork throughout reminding visitors that this wasn't some staid, humorless bathhouse.
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You are filled with wisdom, and although people might think this would make you humorless, your wit, humor and creativity is just another side to your sharp mind.
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Not that I'm necessarily rooting for this humorless little dude with a knit mask and a dumb logo to grow big muscles, acquire sidekicks and all the rest.
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Even grimmer, darker superhero pictures like Avengers: Infinity War and Venom pride themselves on their moments of levity; superhero movies without substantial jokes are usually derided as oppressively humorless.
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His beady eyes and humorless jowls should be etched into the Mount Rushmore of 1980s/early 1990s martial arts action heroes alongside Chuck Norris, Van Damme, and Sasha Mitchell.
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The Netflix flagship's fourth season—which was released all at once last Friday—still offers up its pretty-but-humorless world of ruthless realpolitik, scheming politicians, and intermittent dalliances.
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He's the determined, humorless center around which a swirl of black comedy is deployed, topped off by a final flourish that ends this grim story on a ghoulish smile.
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He also turns the title song into a wordless dance solo for Ms. Charisse in which she touchingly evokes her character's transformation from humorless ideologue to willing sexual object.
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But if, as an actual sheepdog might, you see the world in black and white, its humorless piety, self-righteous rectitude and complete absence of subtlety would seem appealing.
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McCann's is that, even in his best novels, such as the National Book Award-winning "Let the Great World Spin" (2009), his work can be humorless and self-important.
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After playing through dour open worlds like the humorless zombie game Days Gone and the disappointingly serious Far Cry: New Dawn, Rage 2 feels like a breath of fresh air.
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In a now-infamous event, the public voted for Boaty McBoatface, but the humorless British government deemed it unsuitable, choosing the much more boring name of Sir David Attenborough instead.
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Long assigned the thankless role of the humorless shrew to her doofy male counterpart, Heigl slyly subverts her own onscreen persona by taking it to a chilling extreme in Unforgettable.
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You can have him be the asshole millionaire playboy; the grim, humorless Bruce focused only on justice; the stand up citizen that Gotham loves; or you can be some combination.
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Night Out House Greyjoy is a clan of oceangoing raiders in "Game of Thrones," a storm-soaked, humorless bunch even by the grim standards of the hit HBO fantasy series.
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The league's signal failure, whether with its priggish policing of player behavior or its metastatic rulebook or its humorless and retrograde institutional preferences more generally, is a failure of imagination.
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Once an escape haven for cats haz-ing cheezburgers and dramatic chipmunks, the internet has devolved into nothing more than a humorless reflection of our IRL cesspool of a world.
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Rollins, the former Black Flag singer turned actor who plays a military strongman or cop in every movie, lets his guard down and throws away the humorless air about himself.
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The Pathetic Millennial was kind enough to approach the protestors and offer them a hot dog, but he scurried away when one especially humorless activist threatened to call the cops.
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But there it is, nonetheless standing its ground, dumb and defiant, utterly humorless (despite being topped with an immense light saber) and oblivious to anything we might say about it.
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That the term doesn't exist says less about mothers' senses of humor, which are just as corny as fathers', than about restrictive gender roles that cast women as humorless disciplinarians.
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Lest it seem too humorless, one of the collection's signature and durable details is a heavy metal buckle that he discovered and then sourced after a trip to Six Flags.
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That sure differentiates it from Snow White and the Huntsman, a dreary, humorless slog from 2012 that starred Kristen Stewart as the first title character and Chris Hemsworth as the second.
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Affleck pulls from 1,000 shades of grief, each spliced with a counter emotion, bringing precision to a film that could have thudded along as a humorless, repetitive barrage of self-pity.
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They weren't humorless, as Funk claimed that he and Costello started Dillinger Four because they wanted to do "a band that was fun," and their live shows were proof of that.
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To speak out when we feel that men in comedy have crossed a line is to be a humorless downer — to say nothing is to be accused of betraying the sisterhood.
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But as women from time immemorial in both social situations and audiences can attest, it's usually easier to laugh something off than to be singled out as humorless or a buzzkill.
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Mikael, then, is not particularly sympathetic, and Chris is a humorless newshound; so when the jackboots tramp and the killing begins, their fates are of less concern than they should be.
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He never subscribed to the full objectivist program — Ms. Rand's views on art and sex were too narrow for his taste — and he found most of the objectivist true believers humorless.
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Our addiction to fossil fuels has pushed the planet into a "no-analog" state that's "likely to result in widespread future extinctions," an exceedingly humorless study published today in Nature Geoscience concludes.
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When you quoted a line from the HBO movie Gia with such precision and expertise, it made me laugh and realize that the conversation about art can often be humorless and dry.
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It's hard to believe that people are going to be content, year after year, to distort their own personalities in service to a platform, making themselves humorless, semi-blind, joyless and grim.
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"For Leon, women fell on a spectrum ranging from Humorless Prig to Game Girl, based on how much of his sexual banter, innuendo, and advances she would put up with," writes Cottle.
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His public reputation suffered after the 85033 film "The Social Network" portrayed him as a neurotic, humorless genius who created Facebook largely because he didn't fit in with his Harvard University classmates.
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Some of Miike's crime dramas can be humorless, dour, or overwhelmingly gory — he's an extremely prolific director, sometimes averaging four films per year, and he's worked in a lot of different modes.
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The Republican front-runner is running as standup-in-chief this year, convulsing stadiums with his borscht-belt timing; meanwhile, Hillary gets dinged as humorless—and, when she does make jokes, unfunny.
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So go ahead and get nuts with your idiotic and humorless Crying Jordan iterations, Twitter, because here's the thing about that game: even the rampant overzealousness of social media couldn't possibly ruin it.
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Every vaguely political article on Fightland features a string of humorless, knuckle-dragger-with-fat-fingers-mashing-the-keyboard comments underneath, so I'll spare you the trouble: I am a biased liberal pantywaist.
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This is not a sport for the humorless—it is, after all, a bunch of amateurs diving around a field constantly getting interrupted by shit like a dizzy bat spin and Seinfeld trivia.
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There are substantive aspects of Amis's critique, but the gist — the "gravamen," as he might say — is that Corbyn, a humorless, teetotaling vegetarian wedded to an antiquated style of leftism, is woefully uncool.
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Your humorless depressive examinations of the pain one feels at being trapped in the conservative Hell of the Christian world is, well, super boring, and you can't dance to any of that shit.
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But the prevailing concept of old pictures as humorless relics seems on the mark (and is confirmed, in some ways, by the need to make a special Flickr group for pictures that aren't dour).
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Established to weed out gender and racial stereotypes and other social ills in advertising, the authority has set about its task with humorless zeal and recently banned commercials for Philadelphia Cream Cheese and Volkswagen.
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Bill Richardson is known for holding face-to-face negotiations with some of the world's most fearsome regimes, from Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic to humorless grey bureaucrats from the government of North Korea.
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For a humorless man who also runs his own church specializing in hardline evangelical nonsense, McGregor's jokes were too confusing to process, so Romero went before his congregation and asked God to play enforcer.
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The Imitation Game earns a high "False" rating in part because it characterizes Alan Turing as a humorless, unsociable, and friendless outsider who possibly had obsessive compulsive disorder and was on the autism spectrum.
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Still, in Eisa Davis's terrific performance, a character who might seem a humorless, civics-spouting Ms. Deeds instead comes across as one of those politicians, like Elizabeth Warren, who makes superiority feel almost glamorous.
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Lam may have a reputation as being humorless and not much of a crowd-pleaser, but her supporters liked to laud her for getting things done and not being afraid to crack the whip.
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As a German patriot he is conscious of his duty and troubled by the extremism of Hitler and the SS. He detests the local SS heavy (Mark Dexter), a sadistic and humorless true believer.
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They include a humorless working-class Communist painter (Emond); a one-eyed Trotskyite (Esper); a gay dilettante (Urie, in the show's most affecting performance) and a self-dramatizing analysand actress (a miscast Grace Gummer).
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This has been one of the most dismaying discoveries, for me, of a couple of decades in journalism: the direct relationship between mental fatigue, incoming deadlines and a kind of corrupted and humorless high style.
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For his part, Oliver is reduced to humorless smirking and anger, while his back story and career as a software developer are so approximate that one winces to learn that his business is called Generii.
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Where Trump comes across to his supporters as a hugely successful businessman who can and will tell anyone in the country (or the world!) exactly what he thinks of them, Bevin reads more humorless scold.
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Since they're not truly Yiddish — in fact, some of the words have the complete opposite meaning in Yiddish as they do in English — I consulted self-described "humorless Yiddishist" Rokhl Kafrissen to best break them down.
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The first is that creator John Ridley (who writes many episodes but has stepped back from the director's chair a bit this season) has made a series that is often a bit too bleak and humorless.
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Photos: Twitter/Zac CruegerAmidst a year widely recognized as a near-humorless slog, a Wisconsin uncle brought us a fleeting moment of joy this week, attaching a silly-ass skeleton to a quadcopter and buzzing passersby.
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He's pompous, humorless, ruthless, a toady and a bully both, unreasonably convinced of his own brilliance—one of those insufferable people who thrive in life because they don't know or care what others think of them.
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At this time in my life, the only person I knew who wore Gucci loafers was a humorless, 60-plus-year-old editor employed by the magazine I'd recently begun working at as an assistant editor.
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To hear Trump tell it, the humorless media doesn't understand that he is joking about all sorts of things and, as a result, treats his jokes like actual policy statements -- proof positive they are total rubes.
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To be sure, the season's final two episodes get to a point where the Big Thing appears to ruin everybody's lives, but everything on the way there is a humorless slog, albeit with generally good performances.
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Second Wave feminism's reputation, meanwhile, as a humorless group of mainstream white women is due partly to a deliberate attempt in the 1980s to disparage feminists, but also to the movement's race and class blind spots.
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The maker of such great photos as "Blind Woman" and "Wall Street," Strand comes across in Burke's account (which is based largely on recently available correspondence among the foursome) as a humorless, hapless, heavy-handed zero.
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Between the humorless scolds on Twitter and the omnivorousness of advertisers hoovering up every scrap of your personal data, it's hard to remember what the web used to look like and what its original purpose was.
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The storytelling was a grab bag: niftily disorienting but also, at times, humorless or claustrophobic, as if it were less a show about human beings and more a staging ground for cathartic spectacles of economic justice.
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The NFL's reputation as humorless enforcer of bloodsport decorum isn't likely to change anytime soon, so let's not kid ourselves with a rant that it's time for the NFL to relax its rules on dancing and taunting.
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This is a story full of people being miserable, humorless and selfish, despite having been given a lot in life, and they're pretty much the same at the end of it as they were at the beginning.
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Guillam is forced to revisit the dubious setup and muddy justification for that operation, answering awkward questions from humorless young officials who have no patience for or understanding of how the agency operated in the old days.
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He's been criticized in the British press for drinking and receiving a lap dance at a strip club, but in situations like this, it's strange to think of Nawaz as having been anything like a humorless extremist.
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When Donald Trump said he wanted to make America great again, we did not realize this would mean a reunion of Will & Grace, NBC's beloved '90s show about a humorless gay man and his three much funnier friends.
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We see her at work when the team is summoned to a meeting with Scarlet's board of directors, a humorless bunch of elderly white men who flinch at words like "punani" and the concept of a reverse cowgirl.
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The mischaracterizations of feminists as man haters or humorless shrews are widely seen as just that, powerhouse celebrities are laying claim to the word, and the country may be on the brink of electing its first female president.
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But DeLillo has his own special place in American literature, the most European of our authors, and essentially a humorless one, which makes the very funny Ferris an intriguing choice to review "Zero K." DAN POPE WEST HARTFORD, CONN.
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The Americans is often (unfairly) derided as humorless, but one look at Baker, as this guy who has been drawn into this world he doesn't fit comfortably within, and you instantly sense the sly comedy of his entire presence.
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This anecdote of chortles and charges is stage dressing for Smack Mellon's newest show, Laugh Back, an exhibition that aims to convey the transgressive potentials of humor to briefly disrupt or destabilize power structures while undoing the myth of humorless feminism.
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A reboot of the 1975 series (which already gave us an underrated film), S.W.A.T. stars Shemar Moore, a fantastic and compelling actor who seems to unfortunately be stuck adding diversity to humorless CBS's procedurals (he was last seen on Criminal Minds).
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" Michelle Malkin offered this alternative headline for The Washington Post story: "After a gobsmackingly obvious conservative satire mocking leftist darling went viral, humorless journos (who love it when Stephen Colbert uses exact same method) strained bitterly to discredit the success.
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Bana has been stuck in grim, humorless roles for most of his career, but he excels here as the kind of merciless egotist Gervais loves to write: the pompous alpha male whose cruelty and self-interest are entertainingly pure and uncompromised.
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"Smoke" starts out (and "Rush Hour" stays) politically correct in sexual terms, like a humorless ad for a bisexual dating website: a judicious amount of same-sex partnering coexists with standard heterosexual behavior (and no one relationship counts for much).
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More than 123 years later in Battersea Park, Gaiman can still quote from memory Joe Queenan's review in The New York Times, which argued that "Good Omens" was more than unfunny — it was proof that the British are intrinsically humorless.
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Bean's mother died when she was young, and Zøg married a cold, humorless swamp creature with a vaguely European accent named Queen Ivank—er, I mean, Queen Oona (Tress MacNeille) to cement a political alliance with a hostile foreign nation.
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There's a really bad version of the movie where everybody wears the same haircut, has the same outfits, and is humorless, and that's not the world of any of these places in real life and not the one that I wanted to create.
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She's not a murderer, not a crazy person, not some humorless, castrating shrew—she's just a loudmouth Jewish broad who won't let her big nose or her gender or, sometimes, the fact that she's a prostitute keep her from getting what she deserves.
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The culture was humorless and oversensitive, it was contradictory and if you think about it even ironically enough discriminatory in the name of promoting tolerance, but also it didn't really matter and you didn't really get it and they didn't really care.
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For a decade he was an art critic for The New Statesman, where he made a name for himself by antagonizing nearly everyone in the art world in prose that was beautifully spare and precise but heavily moralizing and also frequently humorless.
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It's never been a personal favorite of mine: It's an oddly dark and didactic book, in which the characters who are endowed with that sparkling Austen charm all turn out to be wicked or amoral and the morally upright characters are pinched and humorless.
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"Because of the North Korean state media's portrayal of Kim often as an enigmatic creature, we are so used to seeing images of Kim being so serious and humorless," said Lim Jae-cheon, a professor of North Korean studies at Korea University in Seoul.
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The film is largely humorless and airless, without any of the banter that has made so many of the recent Marvel-derived movies compelling, but when Martha Kent (Diana Lane) meets Batman, she manages one friendly wisecrack that serves as a much-needed catharsis.
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It's an obvious but understated point — the lack of charisma and expression that the protagonist's father possesses in English is not because he is a humorless and charmless man, but that the nuances of such expression are not, at that moment, available to him.
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In white letters on a black, washy ground in the painting, we read this statement by Stalin: "In Part One, for instance, it is unlikely that the Tsar would kiss his wife for so long…" Doesn't this small-minded, humorless comment strike a chord?
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As Victory was becoming the home for every band that was fusing hardcore with metal, the second release in the singles series would see the most humorless man in hardcore affiliating himself with the band that took aim at the industry he was building.
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After hijacking the first movie with his heavy, rock-tumbler whisper and bonkers throwaway gags, Will Arnett's hilariously humorless Batman turns out to be the fun-size star of what's basically a comic-book movie for kids who are too young to see comic-book movies.
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Kate Mara stars as Lee Weathers, a humorless tech-conglomerate rep checking in on her corp's latest unstable investment: a lab-created young woman named Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy) who recently rage-mutilated one of her keepers (Jennifer Jason Leigh, confined to a few brief scenes).
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In the piece, Smith refers to Willow and Jaden as the following:— "überentitled, brainless, self-adoring, twaddle-spewing little munchkins" — "nuclear narcissists"— "terrifying ego monsters"— "pretentious, vapid and humorless" — "the black Boy George, minus the talent" (Jaden) Lobbing a laundry list of insults at minors — really, dude?
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On the other side is the troubled American dirtbag psyche, seething with topics like drug use, mental illness, observational social commentary, and a vague sense of seething, uncontrollable rage that can be awakened at the first sign of disrespect--which is killer, but also pretty silly and humorless.
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It seems less surprising then that in stepping outside of their conventional hosting schtick, both Kimmel and Colbert, this time as himself on CBS's The Late Show, have struck a chord with Americans, emerging as genuine political firebrands with their raw, humorless commentary on healthcare and gun control.
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Plucky and precocious, young Diana learns the ways of the Amazons—muscular, humorless women in leather gladiator/cheerleader skirts, brass headbands, and eyebrows plucked into angles of gravitas, who spend their days practicing archery, swordplay, equestrian stunt-riding, and leggy, tanned-glute-revealing, anti-gravity Caipoera air-spins.
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And I think, although I can't know for sure, that most people that enjoy Cam Newton are able to enjoy him in this way—as an amazing and outsized performer, and as a joyous virtuoso in a sport that tends strongly towards a humorless and self-serious lite authoritarianism.
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When Silvio de Abreu, the Globo dramaturge, wrote telenovelas, he spent a lot of time in the 1970s and '80s trying to persuade humorless government censors in Brasília, the nation's capital, that they were missing a joke — which in some cases was not actually a joke at all.
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Sure, extreme metal purists will gripe that the riffs and subject matter of 2015's Repentless weren't nearly as hostile as those of 1985's Hell Awaits, but many of these naysayers have been desensitized by the anatomical gush of death metal and the humorless blasphemy of black metal.
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Such a conscientious and (it must be said) rather humorless sensibility works well with inherently dramatic material, and so is perhaps better suited for a redemptive fable about the colossal alcoholic Carver, who somehow kicked both booze and the worst predations of his machete-wielding editor, Gordon Lish.
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Again, without expressly spelling out her feelings, Bianca seems to resent that Finn is getting older and fixating on "mature" games — that is, the grim-n-gritty, humorless, dour stories that have been such a source of conflict in comics and films ever since Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns.
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Todd: William is my favorite new character to appear on this show in quite a while, and he's a vivid reminder that the "humorless" criticism that occasionally (and unfairly) gets pinned to The Americans, even though it no longer happens as often as it used to, doesn't really carry a lot of water.
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Huge overcompensation, I'm humorless, and you know, have one plate and one towel and, you know, and -- and fasting on Sundays, and you know, friends start noticing that I'm -- I'm begging off (ph) going out, you know, at night because I have to, you know, read, you know, Sartre (ph) or something.
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In the 1980s, the comfortable conservatism of the Reagan era managed to successfully position second-wave feminists as humorless, hairy-legged shrews who cared only about petty bullshit like bras instead of real problems, probably to distract themselves from the loneliness of their lives, since no man would ever want a (shudder) feminist.
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Tim DeKay of "White Collar" plays Duval Pritchard, a humorless F.B.I. agent who goes strictly by the book because he's trying to escape the taint of his father, Jimmy (Philip Baker Hall), a sheriff whose career ended in scandal and whose life appears to end in what is made to look like suicide as the series opens.
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In hindsight, Stefani's rise functioned as a pivot in the history of feminist rock: the first of many moments in a backlash that would transform a movement fueled by anthems like Hole's "Doll Parts" and Bikini Kill's "I Like Fucking" into a sparkly mimeograph of itself, a retort to the stereotypical notion of humorless feminists who hated lipstick.
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There are also long sequences that mostly seem to exist to kill time — like a lot of footage of the cast riding around various Hawaiian locations on ATVs — and the film mostly wastes incredibly talented actors like Stephen Root (who plays the guys' dad and gets to be a humorless scold and... not a lot else).
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The department wrote that the rejection of the essay came out of concern that readers might not take kindly to a piece lauding Britain's food while rationing was still in place after World War II. "The organization in those days was somewhat po-faced and risk-averse," Mr. Donaldson said, using a phrase to describe a humorless stance.
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Fat Bear Week 2019: Choose the fattest brown bear in Katmai National Park, Alaska The past 48 hours in Trump impeachment inquiry news, explained Netflix's Timothée Chalamet vehicle The King is a humorless slog on the inhumanity of war Bernie Sanders takes aim at the DNC with his new anti-corruption plan The one where the Friends logo won't go away
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Which brings us to the irony-laced dilemma that only the women pursuing careers in comedy face: Even though comedy is supposed to be the art form where the outcasts and underdogs go to expose the lies inside of unfairness, women have been regularly expected to overlook the poor treatment we receive, lest we be called humorless and viewed as bad sports.
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The show's superheroic and science-fiction elements are restrained, sharing time with the mystery and the family dramas, but when they show up — that heavy-breathing alien, or Brittany Ishibashi, as a humorless tiger mom, wielding a magical staff that looks as if it were on sale at West Elm — they border on camp in a way that can't be intentional.
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"Indeed, many of the apparently rebarbative aspects of Sontag's personality are clarified in light of the alcoholic family system, as it was later understood," Moser writes, and he goes on: Her enemies, for example, accused her of taking herself too seriously, of being rigid and humorless, of possessing a baffling inability to relinquish control of even the most trivial matters. . . .
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If this multigenerational cast of characters has the reach of an epic novel, Delury's overarching interest lies in the more interior realms of identity and self-reinvention: the hardscrabble urban childhood fabricated by a country gentry, the counterfeit blood connection between a humorless government official and his schizophrenic fraternal twin brother, the reinvented persona of an expat educator in Madagascar, the split identities of Americans living in France.
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" Paulsen says the show and his characters within it are tools to both confront and comfort people in what is a rather humorless time: "Yakko's influence on me allows me to be accepted by people on both sides of the aisle, so we can talk about things that make us laugh and enjoy each other, and maybe even allow that to be the gateway so we can have a discussion and learn about each other.
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Restaurant Review 9 Photos View Slide Show ' The premodern look in restaurants and bars that has prevailed for the last decade or so is marked by salvaged wood; fireplaces that may or may not function; bare electric bulbs dimmed to mimic gaslight; warrens of small rooms hung with framed lithographs and, sometimes, taxidermy; servers in humorless aprons or lumberjack shirts or both; wine drunk from pickle jars; and short, historically minded cocktails stirred by men who trim their facial hair into antiquated contours.
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"The Name and the Number" shows us a single-minded, humorless young man who rebelled against his strict, civil-servant father, by vowing never to become a civil servant himself and never to pursue any career common to the petit bourgeoisie; who saw a higher destiny for himself as an artist, as a great painter or a great architect or even a great musician, but who had no patience for the effort and discipline such fields require; and who ultimately could not bear the vast gulf between his grandiose self-image and a world that continually rejected and humiliated him, to the point that he was living homeless on the streets of Vienna, selling shoddy paintings to bars and inns, too proud to return to his hometown in failure.
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In "23 22 21 1," which is more of a New York novel despite the predictable metafictional twist at the end, his sentences come tumbling out in multiple clauses, mimicking the breathless rumination of his earnest, callow, fairly humorless and slightly stuffy protagonists: The fundamental quest both before and after his new life began had always been a spiritual one, the dream of an enduring connection, a reciprocal love between compatible souls, souls endowed with bodies, of course, mercifully endowed with bodies, but the soul came first, would always come first, and in spite of his flirtations with Carol, Jane, Nancy, Susan, Mimi, Linda, and Connie, he soon learned that none of these girls possessed the soul he was looking for, and one by one he had lost interest in them and allowed them to disappear from his heart.
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