One might characterise this as black humour, maybe even gallows humour.
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There are weak attempts at humour in the form of an indignant judge and his rather unruly audience, but the real (unintended) humour comes from Esha Gupta, who plays Makhija's sister.
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I don't see the humour in that," replied one. "Wow.
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"It's using humour to make your point," she told me.
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It was about two parts humour, one part sheer bravura.
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FOR THE MUM WHO HAS A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOUR
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"I see the humour in it," Acyapan told the Star.
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In diluted form, the technique still persists in everyday humour.
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Makes me smile at our shared goofy sense of humour.
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And, a good sense of humour, too, it would seem.
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Q: Can you talk about the humour in your film?
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"Veere Di Wedding" has the humour and pizzazz down pat.
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The humour is earthy, often to the point of bitterness.
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"Michael has his unique sense of humour," Mr. Bronfman wrote.
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He was a kindly man with a good sense of humour.
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THE Liberal Democrats have a sense of humour, which is lucky.
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ON ONE online forum, the sysadmins were enjoying some gallows humour.
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It's a style of warped humour he can't seem to resist.
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Putting humour into the miserable weather is what we all need!
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But this joking oscillates between dark humour and straight up harassment.
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This off-beat humour pervades the first half of the film.
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His humour captured the experience of life in NZ and Australia.
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Still, the humour is not always lost on the MCs themselves.
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So pleased our new Prime Minister has a sense of humour.
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So humour is a good way to get a ideas across.
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There's a distinct pathos and campy humour to the Uber ebook.
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Enthusiasm, resilience and good humour were deemed to be more important.
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This exhibition is vintage Dean Blunt in its humour and disingenuousness.
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Humour is a great repair technique that fosters goodwill, says Gottman.
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Humour and horror made sense because that was how I felt.
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Bhat, who was also trolled on Twitter, responded with more humour.
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The 109-minute film is replete with deadpan humour and clever dialogue.
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No humour or intellectual exploration is any longer possible in that environment.
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Young writers are finding humour in struggle, and joy in the everyday.
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Now the city must face Brexit with the same black good humour. ■
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The off-beat humour coupled with broad slapstick appealed to all ages.
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Mr McDonagh chronicles the various reactions to her provocation with acerbic humour.
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Its brand of humour influenced a generation of American comics and writers.
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It was once the only place to find satirical humour and subversion.
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Luckily, Quamer also had a sense of humour about the whole thing.
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With his gentle humour, Heaney might have found that event slightly pretentious.
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The Bighdaddy show is not the first to fight IS with humour.
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Il a fait goûter son humour caustique entre autres au Midwest américain.
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Plenty of European leaders, after all, humour Mr Trump on the phone.
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At the end of the day, it is just harmless visual humour.
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Theft is never fun, but thankfully some people see some humour in it.
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With an amazing sense of humour and gets my British sarcasm (also rare).
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Luckily, Bloom seems to have a sense of humour about the whole thing.
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The National Health Service is mighty, beautiful, essential—but it isn't without humour.
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But the exhibition points out the drawings' impressive depth, technical skill and humour.
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There's a bit of toilet humour going down on Internet at the moment.
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Sardonic humour and gothic plot-twists add a layer of macabre rustic comedy.
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"Cruelty and Humour" never loses sight of the art's brutality, nor its wryness.
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Follow Hogarth in spiking your polemic with humour, however, and views might soften.
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Still, at least Mohammad had a sense of humour about the whole thing.
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But it is a good way for a young person to discover humour.
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The thing that has always kept me going is my sense of humour.
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Still, the supermarket had a good sense of humour about the whole thing.
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There is not quite enough original humour, proper female friendship or feminist reinvention.
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But on every page, the serious stuff is spiced with his distinctive humour.
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Kabir brings in genuine humour and is the best thing about the film.
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The gore and death is leavened by humour and well-observed family dynamics.
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Through it all, he says, his sense of humour has been his saviour.
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It's a bit sweary and has a niche to it with some humour.
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You come for the Dip Dip, and stay for the self-reflexive humour.
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You'll get seriously inspired by the sense of humour she's maintained through difficult times.
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His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humour inspired people across the world.
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It is a good thing that its 15m residents have a sense of humour.
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Green, for her part, sees the humour in it, but also the entrepreneurial savvy.
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"From that moment on the Jim Crow school of humour was dead," Newsweek wrote.
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"Hogarth: Cruelty and Humour" continues at the Morgan Library and Museum until September 22nd
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What's essentially schoolboy humour somehow doesn't come across as crude or stupid—it's hilarious.
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Freud, for instance, found that the humour of the Jews was especially self-denigrating.
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For all the horror and uncertainty, there is tenderness and humour in "Milkman", too.
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Mr Wheatley, who was also the screenwriter, brings his signature warped humour to proceedings.
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But this is Britain, where the politics is unpredictable and the humour is absurd.
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You're basically saying you have no sense of humour but you think I'm funny.
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And even though it's a serious story, we've added lots of humour to it.
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"It was written just in humour to brighten up a shady day," Sophie said.
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Except it does all that with humour and punch, over a thumping Redinho beat.
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I've got quite a simple sense of humour and I can be quite immature.
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But these women all share one rather brilliant trait — their sharp sense of humour.
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They were also assessed (objectively) on their logical reasoning, grammar and sense of humour.
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Not just the plot points, but even the humour in the film is contrived.
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" Another replied, "Good to see The Earl of Wessex putting some humour into things!
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"I hope the humour in Jojo Rabbit helps engage a new generation," he wrote.
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If you don't have a sense of humour in political life, you die. Seriously.
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With over 20 thousand followers and several viral tweets, the humour seems to be working.
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But while Williams stuck with the mournful, Mr Berry's hits become fast friends through humour.
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With his sharp humour and gift for character, Mr Shteyngart makes the implausible seem credible.
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No experience is necessary, but good writing, original thinking and a sense of humour are.
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Mr Farhadi is a master of blending humour into this tension, which drives his plots.
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" BA responded on Twitter: "We very much doubt that Laurence, however, we enjoy the humour!
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She has bags of charisma, and shows all the humour, bravery, intelligence and eccentricity required.
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He was such a wonderful person – full of grace, good humour, kindness … and so knowledgeable.
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But no sculptor has incorporated the fourth dimension with Calder's intelligence, dedication and sly humour.
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His wit and humour (qualities of his that are too seldom recognised) are as sharp.
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As to be expected, many of them were infused with typically British wit and humour.
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"She's so kind and very self-deprecating, with a great sense of humour," Moore said.
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It was the Beatles' humour as much as their musical talent that won him over.
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Italians used art to cope with the chaos, and early attempts were streaked with humour.
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The humour wasn't in the songs so much as in the interaction between the performers.
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As well as being outrageously chiselled, Ryan Reynolds also has a great sense of humour.
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For all their puerile humour, the Meow Wars engendered a manic creativity that was admirable.
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And British people, with their deadpan humour, know how to make the best of it.
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Prank calls may be a low form of humour, but there's no doubt they're entertaining.
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If the humour of Mr Trump's campaign is WrestleMania burlesque, Mr Sanders's is college rag.
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When it comes to toilet humour, Orlando explained, content like this makes sense to children.
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The result is a population that largely views the corrections industry with tolerance and humour.
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Deo's skill lies in not stretching the humour or the farcical aspects of the film.
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IN RECENT DAYS the only thing darker than South Africans' homes has been their humour.
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While both Pratchett and Gaiman's humour is often sarcastic, the book is anything but cynical.
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For instance, the line between satire and humour and inappropriate content is sometimes very gray.
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Fiction writers and graphic novelists can reinvent and reimagine using humour, words, and visual puns.
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Star Trek also has a good sense of humour; that can spark a little love.
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" She blamed the ill-judged spoof on scientific visitors who "let their humour go too far.
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Mix that with a killer sense of humour and you've got the Courteney/Coco double act!
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His output was bawdy and "populaire", executed in a graphic style rife with subversive noir humour.
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Sam Garrett's splendid translation does justice both to the deadpan humour and the half-buried pain.
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In 2006 Mr Beatty went on to bring out "Hokum", an anthology of African-American humour.
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"Using humour at the appropriate time is a great way of reaching more people," Kelly said.
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Her unique blend of humour and horror has proved challenging to capture without resorting to camp.
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Middle sister is numb; yet still, despite the horror, there is tenderness and humour in "Milkman".
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Humour was no more going to solve the country's race problems than it could cure cancer.
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Many social circles and extended families form WhatsApp groups, to share gossip, humour and everything else.
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Saglio said she was "very happy to present [her] vision of French humour" on the platform.
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LONDON — When you're fighting crime all day, it pays to have a good sense of humour.
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We not going to get the best weather this time of year - humour is a must!
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Pret A Manger, a British food chain, specialises in bubbly good humour as well as sandwiches.
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One, in a rare stab at humour, is called ORDEAL: Orbital Rate Display, Earth and Lunar.
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Dan Walker just pushed on regardless, and indulged in a bit of deprecating humour on Twitter.
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A similar sense of humour would fuel Mr Sidibe's own shop for almost half a century.
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THOSE who have spent years travelling in Africa have learned to do so with good humour.
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Besides, its assorted people "have the same sense of humour", Lady Scotland said earlier this month.
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"You need to have a good sense of humour to be a correctional caseworker," Etitiq says.
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Obama is no stranger to mixing messages of hope and change with a twist of humour.
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Not for the first time, Mr Cameron's perky humour got him out of a tight spot.
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This race of super nerds are famous for their unnatural party stamina and witty Vappu humour.
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"Humour is in me but I still approach each role with fear and suspicion," she said.
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He boasted a zany sense of humour, both in our interview and on stage at FutureWorld.
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In order to "get" /r/muacirclejerk's humour, you must already be steeped in online beauty culture.
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"Britney Spears: Piece of Me", therefore, has it all: humour, suspense, weird sadness, and inexplicably, dominatrixes.
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Klopp's antics, his humour and his disarming honesty have been crucial in buoying the supporters' spirits.
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We're seeing Linux users in their element, sharing their habits and talents and weird hokey humour.
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It often surprised my companions when I explained that I found no humour in the statements.
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Humanity may be irreparably doomed, but at least we have a sense of humour about it.
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At the end of the day, you've got to find humour in dark situations in jail.
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"Sultan" works because director Ali Abbas Zafar injects enough wry humour into the proceedings and eschews melodrama.
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Others have similarly used humour and creativity to expose the faulty checks and balances of academic publishing.
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Still, the humour and eccentricity of Mr Lynch's own reminiscences and observations are the book's main pleasure.
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Last year Israel won with chicken moves, a wacky outfit, a feminist message and typical Israeli humour.
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For example: 2018 Emmy Nominees, IMDb's Top 250 Movies, Original Picks, Dark Comedies, British Humour, and more.
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For Henson, there was no distinction between corporate clients or viewers in terms of humour and sensibility.
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We also have a knack producing comedians with a mix of observational, sarcastic and plain dirty humour.
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She is horribly miscast and unable to pull off neither the humour nor any chemistry with Rao.
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Later, Reynolds was able to look back on the incident with humour and at times, brutal honesty.
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Joan-Luc Lagrave, a businessman and Occitan fan, uses humour to jostle his language into the mainstream.
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Back then he was a little less funny but his sense of humour has definitely come through.
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And the good news is Jon clearly had a sense of humour about the whole thing too.
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We're hoping it's temporary and the natural good humour and openness of London will reassert itself quickly.
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It is easy to understand why when every yarn manages to combine wisdom, humour and gentle absurdity.
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With equal parts humour and awe, animals trundle across the space, musing on the universality of things.
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"He has a great sense of humour that he doesn't get credit for," explains a White House official.
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It's been described as a "training error," and at least the U.S. Embassy saw the humour in it.
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Astonishingly, he appeared to invite Russia to raid his opponent's e-mails ("dry humour", says Major-General Mizusawa).
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Cinema-goers will leave "Toni Erdmann" with a feeling that love and wacky humour do not conquer all.
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Instead, some took refuge in gallows humour: think of the jobs Mr Trump's wall will create, they joked.
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Lear's rage comes naturally to her, but there is a moving softness and humour in her mad scenes.
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The film provides important insight into the spirituality of Aboriginal Australian people, as well as plenty of humour.
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And, of course, plenty of Jewish humour has been about unfunny topics such as pogroms and the Holocaust.
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There wasn't much humour in Mr Trump's Twitter response; he described Mr Comey as a "slimeball" and "slippery".
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Charlie Chaplin used physical humour to undermine the mythology of the Third Reich in "The Great Dictator" (1940).
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It drips with humour and politics, railing against the British Empire, airport security, Hare Krishnas, and Donald Trump.
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Josef: We have some humour hidden away and a lot of bright colours, at least in the beginning.
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It's this truthfulness that lets the video's strong sense of humour sit so comfortably with the song's sadness.
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You really need a sense of humour, creativity, and some patience to get the most out of it.
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Mr Travolta's bullish Shapiro punctuates the drama with humour, and throws Mr Schwimmer's perennially-forlorn Kardashian into relief.
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Shinohara Ushio, a Japanese artist, responded to the flood tide of American products with more humour than outrage.
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While his videos are executed with humour and a grubby, idiosyncratic style, what Leafy does is essentially trolling.
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The bishop might rarely smile, but that did not mean he entirely lacked a certain sense of humour.
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It's simple, fun, easy to play in short bursts, and marked by a distinctive and surreal deadpan humour.
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Yet Mr Navalny, in particular, has demonstrated an ability to use humour to turn the attacks to his advantage.
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Long-serving dark humour webcomic Cyanide and Happiness is releasing its very first video game, successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter.
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Its title, "Memento Mori", nicely captures the strain of dark and self-deprecating humour which runs through his work.
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This, combined with the clipped tones, casual sexism and dry war humour, lend the book authenticity and sharp poignancy.
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Humour is used to comment, to observe and to probe, parodying modern dating and sex dramas in memorable songs.
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Still, many Saudis see this as a hopeful moment—a time not for dark humour but for thoughtful drama.
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Their dialogue is full of misunderstandings, bickering, affection and humour, while the comforts of religion and sentimentality are resisted.
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A rulebook which states that deliberately misspelled words and misused grammar can convey tone, nuance, humour, and even annoyance.
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If meticulously-executed dad jokes and observational humour get you up in the morning, Gadsby will brighten your life.
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There's only one thing in this world sharper than Ryan Reynolds' cheekbones, and that's Ryan Reynolds' sense of humour.
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Juncker has reprimanded him in the past over attempts at humour that involved slights on gays and the Chinese.
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"We may not be a conventional family but we have love and humour and respect and care," Beckinsale wrote.
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Hariri, sitting beside the crown prince, commonly known as MbS, took part in the humour as the audience laughed.
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" Some protesters saw humour in Algeria's crisis: "Any country interested in toppling its system, we are ready to help.
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Which proves the point that the people championing racist humour are pretty lousy at picking up on a joke.
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Every inch the sharp-suited Goldman Sachs alumnus, Westerman enjoys flashes of dry, self-aware humour about his image.
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You make black humour jokes as well because sometimes you just need to laugh or it'll get to you.
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The former chancellor is tall, grey and with a sense of humour that matches his fiscal policy: extra-dry.
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The game aims for family-friendly humour, starting with players becoming certified FARTs, or Furniture Arrangement and Relocation Technicians.
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" He later recommended "edgy humour and memes" and appealing "to the anger and black comedic nature of the present.
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If you have to define humour in a single phrase, you might define it as dignity sitting on a tintack.
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We are grateful to our contributors, who have agreed with grace and good humour to step onto this contested ground.
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I think humour is one of the most incredible tools for breaking down barriers, relaxing people and connecting an audience.
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He set up a foundation to promote "humour and happiness" and has published a book called "The World's Best Jokes".
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Though Mr Handler's stories are funny, the humour is black and usually in the voice of the narrator, not slapstick.
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His works are safe spaces in which people are good, conflicts are resolved, love is sweet and humour is everywhere.
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In an age when humour tends to be more nuanced and ironic, Mr Simon's polished punchlines can feel somewhat dated.
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Midwesterners like their politics unthreatening, realistic and with a touch of humour to smooth over areas of disagreement, she believes.
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Mr Limbaugh shook up the ossified talk-show format by dispensing with the tedious call-ins and adding anarchic humour.
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My father tells me this kind of humour was "a vaccine against the miseries" of a generation marred with terrorism.
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A remake of the 2014 Tamil film "Pisaasu", this comedy is unable to generate a single moment of genuine humour.
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Like "Groundhog Day" or "Bruce Almighty", "Yesterday" gets most of its humour from the supernatural conceit, rather than its characters.
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A concession: Knock Knock: Humour in Contemporary Art at South London Gallery is, by-and-large, a well-rounded show.
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Knock Knock: Humour in Contemporary Art continues at South London Gallery (65-67 Peckham Road, London, UK) through November 18.
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The exhibition lays bare Cannon's technical skill, his humour and his ability to distill emotion in both word and colour.
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The biggest fans of Bytedance's now-defunct humour app, for example, were men without great prospects living in smaller cities.
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Plus, how gumbo tells the story of the American South and why a good astronaut needs a sense of humour.
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Nadia Almada won in 2004—the fact she was born male irrelevant in the face of her charm and humour.
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He went on to spend a year travelling round America, attending pun-parties and interviewing humour experts and comedy writers.
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Finding other people with the same outfit can be annoying, but at least these guys found the humour in it.
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Shows that Beto's got a sense of humour...and insists on listening to people even while getting his plaque removed.
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One of the final displays, a digitised version of Don Celender's 1982 "Reincarnation Study", punctuates a gloomy subject with humour.
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It becomes clear over the course of the interview that Manson has a sense of humour about his rock persona.
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Kovelamudi stuffs his scenes with absurdist elements and dark humour, but the script is too shallow to support these devices.
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Q: The trailer of "Arjun Patiala" bears some self-deprecating humour, especially in the way it makes fun of Bollywood.
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I'm really big on pop culture, internetting, memes and other dorky humour, and that's definitely a core of my audience.
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From the dancers to the guy hanging out in the background, there is a lot of humour in the video.
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Entitled "Red, White, Blue,"— after North Korea's flag colours—the exhibition shows artwork critical of the regime punctuated with humour.
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Arshad's powerful and self-deprecating humour has been breaking down stereotypes and countering harmful and racist discourse from the start.
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Warning: this post contains high levels of sarcasm and a variety of humour designed specifically for the consumption of women.
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Though the film, well-crafted by cinematographer Robbie Ryan, is bleak, Loach adds touches of humour to often Kafkaesque situations.
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It shows how Facebook's attempts to limit harmful and spammy content can miss the mark and fail to appreciate humour.
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The skits give the piece a distinctive feel, not just offering the documentation of great skating, but also add humour.
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The glorious semi-fictional biography 20,000 Days On Earth, released in 2014, was suffused with self-knowing and playful humour.
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"[Dalí's] work contains surprise and humour, it upsets our expectations of a useful object and tickles the imagination," Boag explained.
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Throughout, though, her writing is bracing, as full of humour and whimsy, sex and creepiness as in her offbeat stories.
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When Kavakalan approached and teased M.O. with the yellow fruit, the trucker did not see any humour in the joke.
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With their compromising bonhomie Cavaliers are useful consolidators, lubricators of relations between social groups, guardians of good humour and thus perspective.
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When she tried to get free, the men told her that she had no sense of humour and was being rude.
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The walls are adorned with portraits painted by fans of Griffin, an actor and comedian with a line in raunchy humour.
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A product of his time, Monte promoted general health using the Humour theory of the Middle Ages to articulate his approach.
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Ultimately, these attempts at levity by the airlines say less about their sense of humour than about their sense of desperation.
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Earlier this year "The Sellout" was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize, a British award that rewards humour in fiction.
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If ever you needed proof that growing older doesn't mean you lose your sense of humour, just watch the video above.
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This being a Pokémon-themed game, it's not quite as dark, but the same streak of black humour runs through it.
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On a lighter note, he has written a book entitled "Between Heaven and Mirth" about the importance of humour in religion.
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Fans of "Arms Control Wonk", Mr Lewis's podcast, will expect notes of absurdist and scornful humour; they will not be disappointed.
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It is obvious that any analysis needs to be treated with caution in regards to sarcasm, humour and other possible variations.
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Q: When it comes to making comedy films in regional languages, much of the humour is tied to the said language.
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At least the Gardner Police Department saw the humour in it, thanking those costumed camera invaders it in its Facebook post.
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Tongues out in profile pictures, unsolicited nudes and toilet humour are a few ways to render yourself an online dating pariah.
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Kabir and Firdaus don't meet until the very end, but Kakkar infuses this love story with humour and some tender moments.
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With Christmas just a week away, others resorted to dark humour to help cope with the latest episode of toxic air.
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Irrfan Khan's pokerfaced manner even as his character goes through emotional upheaval is in perfect sync with the film's deadpan humour.
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Alex: I think it just appeals to our sense of humour—the show in general I mean, not just Super Hans.
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Liberal Tunisians, looking for humour in the situation, have dubbed the run-off a race between the Godfather and the Terminator.
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To avoid detection, Re:scam is able to assume multiple personas, while using humour and grammatical errors as a real human would.
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Plus, at the time I took the sugar coal trick as an absolute sign that Befana had a sense of humour.
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Mr Ellams juggles plenty of weighty topics but he brings a lightness of touch, peppering the play with humour, music and dance.
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I use it more like a personal account and try to make sure my posts reflect my personality and sense of humour.
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If you imagine humour as requiring a thought process, the whole point of shitposting was not having a thought process behind it.
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The dark comedy and social charge of his street scenes need a different noun: 'disquiet' tamps down Vallotton's humour and political anger.
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Even when the focus shifts away from the primary father-daughter relationship, Ade's astute gift of observation and farcical humour is unrelenting.
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And because the internet has a weird sense of humour, this ad has gone on to become a whole new, ridiculous meme.
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But, women all over the world are tweeting their experiences of street harassment using the #NoWomanEver hashtag, with one surprising addition: humour.
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As in life, the wily Russian leader is in "Trump in Europe" a complex character, the role inhabiting menace, drama and humour.
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But it is largely true that what constitutes humour, and therefore what defines the genre, is in the eye of the beholder.
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To touch on that more serious tone, the political side of Typical System augments the record just as much as the humour.
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Her black and white drawings are incredibly three dimensional and realistic, but are always rounded out with a definite sense of humour.
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Any Star Wars-loving dads will appreciate this Star Wars loungewear, which combines that classic dad humour with an OG trilogy reference.
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Managers who pay more attention to humour – a simple everyday response to conflict – can better understand these pressure points, and relieve them.
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They appeal to adults, not with the irony or adult humour of the "Shrek" franchise, but with a nuanced exploration of character.
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The mother of three is Australia's queen of clean, and she has tasked herself with bringing G-rated humour to the masses.
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Vivid characters people this bold, visionary novel as dark humour mixes with vengeance and violence and the "smoke-thickened" decades slide by.
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Speaking to Radio 5 Live, the actor and comedian talked of his friendship with Bowie and the Starman's great sense of humour.
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Those awards – he won another just last week – are recognition of his bravery and honesty as much as his sense of humour.
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But as we grew up, I watched his laughter fade to seriousness as 'real life' eroded his sense of humour and wonder.
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Another example of the Department's sense of bizarre, Microsoft Paint-derived rendering humour can be seen below, this one not featuring Drake.
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The overall effect is darkly funny, but as Berlin's real gardens wither in a historic heatwave, the apocalyptic gallows humour is unsettling.
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Tripathi is perfect with his deadpan humour, bringing a semblance of sense to what is otherwise a tepid script from the start.
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Your kindness, humour, and loyalty will live on in the hearts of those who knew you and your genius will live on forever.
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Smokey Robinson, the leading force of Motown, owes an obvious debt to Mr Berry's wordplay and his appropriation of highbrow culture and humour.
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AS ANYONE who has tried (and failed) to crack a joke in a foreign language knows, humour is the marker of linguistic mastery.
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You need both beauty and humour, Mr Quilty reckons, "if you want to tell stories about the darker side of the human condition".
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Outrage and humour are thus politically powerful; indeed, they played big roles in mobilisations such as that of Tahrir Square and the Euromaidan.
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At last he divulges a yearning for power but before his confession has had time to percolate, he distracts from it with humour.
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The romance in this romantic comedy is non-existent, but thankfully the wit and sparkle in the humour make it a fun watch.
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The setup lends itself to a particular style of British humour: guests can make newsy quips and puns, and quick thinking is rewarded.
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We wanted to make it look like the first one but a little different, and that was his sense of humour coming out.
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He's also pretty active on the social networking site, where he posts pictures, participates in Facebook Lives and even makes attempts at humour.
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His ill-starred reign was redeemed only by the "grace, patience, humour and dignity" which the doomed royal family showed in their captivity.
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But we were very aware while writing that if we don't inject humour into the proceedings, the story would have been too heavy.
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"What I remember most in this moment of painful leave-taking is his humour, intelligence, wisdom, and kindness," Thompson said in the statement.
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It really helps if you address your demographic, for example choose emotional music from the correct era... and add a bit of humour.
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When asked about Indian politician Atul Anjan's statement about Leone being "responsible for corrupting Indian minds and Indian morality", she reacted with humour.
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The Canada-based VPN is packed with features and has a sense of humour with a strong bear-theme running through its programs.
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Love, crime and cockeyed redemption meet on a hardscrabble housing estate in County Cork, Ireland, in a rare blend of heartbreak and humour.
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"By releasing these deepfakes, we aim to use shock and humour to inform the public and put pressure on our lawmakers," he said.
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His delightfully wry humour seems to coax Sinha into displaying some comic timing that is otherwise missing from the rest of her performance.
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Never mind that "zero-tolerance" needs a hyphen; Ms Truss's style—sometimes crisp humour, sometimes camped-up outrage—was the real selling-point.
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Watsa answers even the most outlandish questions with deadpan humour and in doing so, has found fans all over the city and beyond.
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Most of my heroes, or people that I really love, you do end up finding there's a lot of humour [in their work].
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Critics often point out that the humour of "Seinfeld" is more sophisticated in the way that it contorts everyday situations into hilarious episodes.
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We see CGI-enhanced tigers, Choocha's attempts at romancing Punjaban, but none of them contribute to genuine moments of humour in the film.
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Aside from a chiselled jawline, a high-flying career and a sparkling sense of humour, what does Ryan Reynolds have that I don't?
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But I was also curious to see how this thing could possibly assume my tone of voice and adopt my interests and humour.
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And toes crossed it includes everything we know and love about the tale that's brought hope and humour to generations of "pathetic" unpopular girls.
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Her dark sense of humour is starkly contrasted with the severity of the issues being discussed, but Beedham feels that this helps disarm viewers.
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They also paint a portrait of a predator who used humour, intimidation, and his reputation as a champion of women's rights to avoid accountability.
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"Good news, the owner is alive and well and has a similar sense of humour as myself (THANKFULLY)," Anderson writes in the video's caption.
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But, while some people are loving the fashion house's foray into internet humour, many of its Insta followers have been left scratching their heads.
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The comedy series is an altogether different production that Iflix said will bring "humour previously only heard in comedy clubs" to the streaming service.
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Nicolás Maduro and Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, presidents of Venezuela and Egypt, find their voice in absurdist humour and their material in economic hardship.
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A compilation reel from YouTube account Takkyuu Geinin comprises of entirely of wild ping pong tricks and quite a bit of slap stick humour.
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" The president, known for his flashes of dark humour, said: "There should be a specific person who can be hanged if it's not done.
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With a mixture of exhortation, mild provocation and humour, they urge people to think differently about religions, both their own and those of others.
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Admittedly it's probably not all that easy to squeeze humour into a forecast, but some presenters — particularly British ones, it seems — have nailed it.
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Its director, Adam McKay, used humour and celebrity cameos to illustrate some of the more arcane financial jargon that might otherwise have bewildered audiences.
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Here, as with "Gone Girl", we are presented with shifting, conflicting narratives and points of view, all veined through with violence and dark humour.
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"Key and Peele", which won a Peabody Award for its contributions to the public discourse, approached difficult arguments about race and gender with humour.
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ONE of the odder things about President Donald Trump is that, though he cheers supporters up greatly, he has no discernible sense of humour.
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I can love myself and I can love my body and my person and my sense of humour and my weird quirky personality traits.
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In terms of humour, "Veere Di Wedding" works well, but it stutters when it comes to the emotional conflicts, which feel unreal and contrived.
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LONDON — If you're going to be carting around people's waste all day, it's good to at least have a sense of humour about it.
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Rowan Atkinson argued, in his humour-dissecting documentary series "Funny Business", that one of the fundamental principles of visual comedy is appearances and disappearances.
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Scandal-dogged, distrusted and divisive, a workaday campaigner with a style and résumé at odds with her party's humour, Mrs Clinton is not ideal.
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"I believe she has seen it now and taken it lightly, which I expected as she fortunately did have a good sense of humour."
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There's a lot of aggression in our songs, but there's also a lot of humour, and the humor seems to go down really well.
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This humour lives on in Weird Twitter and its adjacent 'Dirtbag Left', but has also been very visibly co-opted by the alt-right.
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Posts combine camp humour with an eye for ludicrous self-parody—many of members are also a part in the same communities they criticise.
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You got the "Alternative Rock", you got the post punk aspect in there, the 80s pop, the sad acoustic songs, along with subtle humour.
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" Following a flurry of complaints, Christensen amended the caption to say: "You gotta ask yourself, do you have a sense of humour, greenie punks?
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It's a visual representation of the subtle skill wielded by Waititi in a film that wears its not-so-subtle humour on its sleeve.
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Reacting to the story on Twitter, Andrassy used it as an opportunity to talk about the UK and the EU's shared sense of humour.
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And the way he survives is by having a dry outlook on the world and humour as part of what gives him his charm.
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In the circumstances, Chuter Ede, the home secretary, thought it safe "to leave these people to the sense of humour of the British people".
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Though her humour is sardonic and self-deprecating, she appraises her home, which includes an infinity pool guarded by a ceramic Buddha, with uncomplicated pride.
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The New York Times got a massive dose of British humour when it posted a tweet asking for people's experiences of petty crime in London.
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GERMANS are not renowned for their sense of humour, but that has not prevented one of the country's biggest infrastructure projects from becoming a joke.
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You can use humour, exaggeration and irony in advertising, but there's a risk you reinforce the stereotypes you are seeking to mock, the ruling said.
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Sales were also hit by a sharp decline in demand for spoof humour titles in the books category — a popular Christmas gift a year earlier.
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That show had its own political allusions, lampooning the religious police and other aspects of Saudi society—humour that felt like a despairing rearguard action.
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The British sense of humour means these offices often acquire their own nicknames, regardless of the developer's intentions—the Cheesegrater or the Gherkin, for example.
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However, Mr Kurniawan offsets the carnage and lightens the mood with skew-whiff logic and humour that ranges from slapstick to ribald to pitch-black.
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When Mr Kosslick, known for his charm and good humour, welcomed film stars on the red carpet he looked more serious than in previous years.
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Their cheeky anti-establishment humour would do much to prepare Martin for his new charges from the north, and in turn, endear him to them.
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Brought up in a bustling Lutheran parsonage in a coastal corner of Denmark, she is known in Brussels for her straight manner and dry humour.
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It was dumb and apart from what you all think I'm not a racist, honestly did it just for some 'humour' enjoy your day guys.
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This chapter is replete with tragedy and suffering, but Mr Dauber recognises the multiplicity of Jewish humour and wisely resists any single characterisation of it.
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"This is such a special honour for me as the HFPA are always among the first to really appreciate my ever-evolving humour," he said.
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Zac Sutton: My favorite songs at the moment use a lot of humour without trying to make you feel bad for the singer or yourself.
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Humour appears too in the plays: Scorpius Malfoy, entirely unlike the drawling figure of his father on screen, delights with his awkwardness and self-deprecation.
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His end, as a cheeky old man playing golf and seducing girls in the back seat of his car in Florida, is described with humour.
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In fact, you'll probably absolutely love it—how could you, after all, resist its evocative lyrics and delicate musicianship, the wry humour of the thing?
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"I'm proud, honoured and happy to have been able to share so much of your time, talent, warmth, generosity and sense of humour," he wrote.
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"Ever ready to solve rather than cause problems, I…" begins one sentence, without irony (using humour would "deepen the problem of me not being taken seriously").
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He is looking at the camera in some of the photos because I was looking at him and smiling, sharing in the humour of the moment.
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But it still maintains the tongue-in-cheek humour that's become Speelburg's calling card in the past couple of years, since he debuted in about 2014.
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He has a remarkable gift for loose, raw, figurative painting, often infused with macabre humour and arresting colour, which straightaway imprints itself upon the viewer's imagination.
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"He guided the career of The Beatles with such skill and good humour that he became a true friend to me and my family," he wrote.
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There is no winking humour to lighten the mood, no contemporary brand names or historical references to anchor the story in a recognisable time or place.
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He has found humour in everything from an embarrassing experience sitting mostly naked in a Parisian doctor's waiting room to the tragedy of his sisters suicide.
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"He came and worked hard every day and he had that quiet sense of humour about him," former Saints coach Jason McKee told the Edmonton Journal.
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" One Weibo user sarcastically commented: "I don't know why I feel disgusted, it's probably because I'm a straight woman who doesn't have a sense of humour.
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Ms Alneami's pictures also capture the pathos, humour and defiance of women riding bumper-cars at funfairs, the closest most could come to driving real cars.
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The therapist (Fiona Shaw) asks some preliminary questions—why she is here, is she close to her family, and so on—which Fleabag deflects with humour.
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As neighbours in the middle-class Mylapore district line up brightly coloured pots for the scheduled tanker to fill, there is more good humour than annoyance.
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Several Bollywood films have featured gay characters, but with a few exceptions, their portrayal has largely been caricatured and coloured by slapstick humour and shock value.
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There is a trait of self-deprecation, which Americans sometimes struggle to understand, and which masks a (probably unjustified) pride in our national sense of humour.
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There's an undercurrent of gallows humour—quite literally, as members make constant reference to investing in "$ROPE"'—with frank discussion of losses and their emotional fallout.
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Almost instantly, Harambe became the stuff of 4chan memes and "Harambro" humour, which simultaneously mocks and celebrates the fallen primate as a symbol of online outrage.
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The Snapchat video has been criticised by several Bollywood celebrities and politicians, even making it to national news television and started an online debate on humour.
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They bounce off each other well, too, and their squabbly dynamic adds an occasional, much-needed touch of humour to the show's otherwise near-constant bleakness.
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"Retired golden girl seeks two cosmopolitan, easy-going, positive people with a (wacky) sense of humour to share this lovely, charming property," starts an ad on goldengirlsnetwork.
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You'd be forgiven for missing the deeper meanings that underlie Adult Swim's hit Rick and Morty, thanks to the animation's incredibly surreal and bizarre sense of humour.
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She says the "tongue-in-cheek response" to criticism is "just too easy" for brands and positions people who complain as "supposedly without a sense of humour".
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AS AN artist, Roland Topor is hard to pin down: his work is best characterised by the specificity of his humour and the variety of his creations.
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Over the next month Qinni shared her experience of chemotherapy with brutal honesty and a dark sense of humour, cracking jokes while still continuing to create art.
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"Roald Dahl's bonkers imagination and British sense of humour are the perfect match for Mini Boden," Boden's Creative Director for Childrenswear, Laura Harvey, writes on their website.
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Premiering 25 years ago on September 16th 1993, the show's blend of dark humour and warmth made it one of the most successful sitcoms of all time.
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After the Byers family's terrifying ordeal in the last season, it makes sense for Joyce to want some stability with safe-bet-Bob and his dad humour.
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Loehnen is sharp with a wicked sense of humour, and I got the sense that her star-power is almost as bright as Gwyneth's in Goop world.
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"This dude noticed that my Grindr username had an immunology bent to it, so he started bantering with me using awful/fantastic science humour," he told Mashable.
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In the early hours of Monday morning â€" clearly in a desperate attempt inject humour into such a grim affair â€" someone kick-started the #debatesongs hashtag.
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The cruelness Ms Harding endures is fodder for both pain and humour, and the film-makers manage to skillfully navigate the pitfalls of this traumatic subject matter.
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Reflecting on this journey from cynicism to investment, I wondered if British people hide behind a cold, impenetrable wall of humour when confronted with romance and emotions.
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What feels like a boxing match with each throwing punches at each other, soon gets a lighter tone through the humour each actor brings to the role.
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Bob Ross is the newest innocent thing that Deadpool has wonderfully ruined, but fans have been looking beyond the weird humour to find clues for Deadpool 2.
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Like most of Propagandhi's music there's a good dose of sarcasm and humour riding alongside the message in "The Only Good Fascist Is A Very Dead Fascist".
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Victoria Beckham is an iconic in every sense of the word — in her style, in her music, and — as it turns out — in her sense of humour.
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Tiwari, a software engineer-turned-ad filmmaker-turned film director, spoke to Reuters about "Dangal", the crucial ingredient in a sports film, and the importance of humour.
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Sexism in the '70s and childhood anxiety are both pretty heavy topics for discussion, but Stone and Colbert manage to carry it off with humour and sensitivity.
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Mix the two together, and you've got the prime conditions for something like "Combine Harvester"—both knowing in its dumb humour and weirdly loving—to take off.
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The regulator disagreed, ruling that "the men were portrayed as somewhat hapless" and that the "humour in the ad derived from the use of the gender stereotype".
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The causes of this ill humour include economic stagnation or slowdown, the diminishing of opportunity and the fear of falling back into poverty amid persistently deep inequality.
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It's not a happy ending for many employees of soon-to-be closed Australian electronics chain Dick Smith, but at least one employee can still find some humour.
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"We have always tried to get our message across with a gentle sense of humour and up until now, our work has been extremely well-received," said Brown.
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With its distinguishable brand of mischievous humour, the Beano is as relevant and immediately entertaining as it was when gleeful readers took home that first issue in 1938.
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Kevin Porter, president of the St. Albert Raiders club, said Hunter had a "great sense of humour, always had a smile on his face," the Edmonton Journal reported.
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But to anyone who believes in equality between the genders, there is genuinely no humour to be found in jokes that make oppressing or hating women the punchline.
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Whoever wins, it looks as if Mr Xi's and Mr Kim's hostility will earn them the government they deserve in South Korea: one less inclined to humour them.
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He is swiftly earning a reputation for exploring discomforting ideas about race and sex with humour, intellectual rigour, nods to pop culture and an engaging sense of spectacle.
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LONDON, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth will pay tribute to her husband Prince Philip in her Christmas message, and praise his "support and unique sense of humour".
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The violence in William Hogarth's sketch, made in 1750, almost feels senseless, even as it is softened with humour (a well-dressed boy peddles pies amid the chaos).
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They had also banned outright another of its products, a joke-sharing app called Neihan Duanzi, which specialised in bawdy humour and had more than 20m active users.
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This retro chewing gum machine is a dose of childhood nostalgia, and makes a great gift for that coworker with a sense of humour and a sweet tooth.
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Their humour did not improve after he announced that he would be keeping a daily tally of those who had signed on to support each of his priorities.
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The shows made under the #LaughterGames campaign vary in terms of the brand of humour, with satire, news comedy, sketches and goofy web series, as well as themes.
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It always has this kind of vicious humour attached to it, and that side of what we're doing is a bit more apparent now than on Typical System.
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Physicists aren't often reprimanded for using risqué humour in their academic writings, but in 1991 that is exactly what happened to the cosmologist Andrei Linde at Stanford University.
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Cabu, Wolinski and Honoré in particular, in their 80s, were not only true artists and humanists, they had shaped the political humour of three generations of French people.
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The monologue slips seamlessly between anger, bitterness, humour, and sadness — but it's this last emotion that comes through the strongest as BoJack brings his diatribe to a close.
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If you can say it with a tinge of humour, the message doesn't change, but it becomes more enjoyable and easier for people to take home the message.
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You've got to start broad in the observational humour game and then specialize, delving into narrower observational holes, getting really into the nitty gritty of your chosen area.
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His songwriting casually trespasses the blurry line between serious darkness and morbid humour, mixing feelings of death, delusion, and grandeur with an impending sense that nothing really matters.
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But all my friends spoke about this place with such a mixture of joy, humour, devotion and occasional disgust that it always felt like part of my London.
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When Firangi lands up in their midst, they don't know if they can trust him, but his sweet-talking ways and self-deprecating humour endears him to them.
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He built up a huge fan base over his decades-long career thanks to his inimitable voice and often subversive humour, and was awarded a knighthood in 22016.
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The focus of the camera becomes a funnel for each of them to cathartically vent through, whether they are spitting with anger, humour, passion or just pure hectic energy.
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Their name straddles the bridge between playgroud humour and a pub fight in Eastenders, and in that sense is a pretty good mission statement for them as a whole.
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In truth, Mr Xi can afford to humour Mr Trump, once a China hawk, in part because Mr Trump has not been very hawkish in his dealings with China.
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"We wanted to do it through humour, in a very populist way, not in way that was dry or just purely for a very refined small audience," he added.
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It featured a Pakistani cricket fan, known as the 'Mauka Man', and captured the intense excitement and fan frenzy surrounding cricket matches in india with a dash of humour.
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Or, of course, this type of thing is utter nonsense, not least because an AI is yet to understand my particularly British kind of self-deprecating and dry humour.
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I hope you can make rabbit ears and witty rhymes up there, because your loopy humour was your gift to us and now it is your gift to them.
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It would be something of an understatement to say we're living through politically divisive times where many turn to humour and satire as a means to cope and escape.
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I saw a man who had come through the other side and still had a good sense of humour, and I saw two options; to recover, or to die.
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Related: These Vanishing Resin Chairs Are Representative of Existential Crisis [Premiere] How a 'Scream' of Post-War Japanese Art Pioneered Modernism A Short History of Art World Potty Humour
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This thread of humour runs throughout the film and elevates the viewing experience, making it more than just a chronicle of Mahavir Singh Phogat's obsession with producing champion wrestlers.
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In his first interactions with the media this week, he joked about being too direct, with an "excessively spontaneous" sense of humour and as a "kitchen and basement" man.
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I was very comfortable on keyboard and decided it would be like playing on a hitbox [a controller that mimics a computer keyboard], except with the humour factor attached.
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Over the last months, its accounts have tweeted public service messages on issues such as cyber stalking, traffic safety and an anti-drugs campaign, but with a dose of humour.
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" Jewel Staite, who appeared in the 2002 film "Cheats" alongside the legend, said it was a "pleasure" working with the star and "seeing her grace, humour, and brilliance up close.
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Women, of course, know well what it is like to protest a line of humour and be asked to "lighten up" or "chill out" or "learn to take a joke".
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" She was aware of how strange that might sound to some: "If I'm beginning to sound like a bricklayer with a sense of humour, you're beginning to understand my work.
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"We decided the boys needed to be in the most sexualised positions, for both humour and to show how silly it would be to pose males like that," she said.
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"Furious Hours" is a well-told, ingeniously structured double mystery—one an unsolved serial killing, the other an elusive book—rich in droll humour and deep but lightly worn research.
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How to improve the argument of a history essay is not something edtech easily grasps, any more than it could advise on the use of humour in a drama class.
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" He went to say that he "completely regret[s] what was said in that private conversation with the journalist," and that she did not "appreciate [his] bad sense of humour.
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In some ways, life in Donald Trump's America is getting even more difficult for people such as the Interfaith Amigos who try to tackle religious difference with sophistication and humour.
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To try to get a better understanding of the divided sentiment, individual tweets were investigated and it soon became apparent that the sentiment analysis had difficulty identifying sarcasm and humour.
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Her new show is less concerned with sex, but happily retains the quirky humour and, remarkably, the sense of the absurd that made its predecessor so much fun to watch.
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He discusses how a year in space changes astronauts' bodies, why a good sense of humour is required for a successful mission to Mars, and whether machines can become scientists.
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The film is hilarious, and asks a question that recurs in Ms Maclean's work: why does technology seem to expose humanity's basest instincts in terms of humour, entertainment and power?
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As Mr Calvey once told interviewers: "International firms aren't equipped for Russia, and they usually have a low tolerance threshold for uncertainty and no sense of humour for Russian surprises."
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Rick and Morty garners lots of love because it manages to combine Family Guy-ish general gross-out humour with dark character arcs and the theoretical science of speculative fiction.
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At just over 5 feet 1 inch tall, Corbett initially played characters younger than his real age, and he joked about his size throughout his career with self-deprecating humour.
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The Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster said Stormzy was a "far, far better rapper than he is a political analyst" and quoted his lyrics in an attempt at humour.
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Here's their new page, in all its glory: We checked both Labour and the Conservative's 404 pages for any traces of humour in response, but they were both sadly lacking.
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Before he died in 2015, Pratchett asked that everything he had been working on be destroyed by steamroller, an act in keeping with the wry humour of his Discworld series.
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His Facebook page reveals a man with a sense of humour who described long days working in the Alberta oil patch while looking forward to seeing his family on off days.
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Chewing gum machine This retro chewing gum machine is a dose of childhood nostalgia, and makes a great gift for that coworker with a sense of humour and a sweet tooth.
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The portrait of Fraser Robinson, her loving and stoical father, who died long before she became First Lady and retained his gentle good humour as his body failed, is particularly moving.
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"We have always tried to get our message across with a gentle sense of humour and up until now, our work has been extremely well-received," Brown said in a statement.
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Although he died in 1997, it is hard to shake the feeling that he would have been great friends with Terry Gilliam, sharing raunchy potty humour and delirious topsy-turvy visions.
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With disarming humour, he described his own spiritual path in a successful book with an almost self-explanatory title, "My Islam: How Fundamentalism Stole My Mind and Doubt Freed My Soul".
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"Lenny" (1974), which starred Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce, focused on his outspoken brand of humour as much as his self-absorption and the drug use which would eventually kill him.
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" She went on: "My father has made Meg 99 percent of what she is today, through education, career opportunities, love and nurturing, her great sense of humour, building her self-esteem.
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Even though there is enough slapstick comedy in the film, the real humour comes from writer Vinit Vyas' gentle observations of the motley group of characters that make up this film.
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But rather than losing her nerve when faced with a kicking, screaming child, Barrymore showed off her legendarily good sense of humour and used the opportunity to take a funny photo.
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Admittedly, it's now a song that has been sort of lost to wedding DJs the world over, but it's also cool and fun, and there's humour in its kitsch 1970s-ness.
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But that's not what should define the area, or be seen as its only facet, there is a lot more to it; I've witnessed kindness, a lot of humour and beauty.
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I decide to go and see another friend, Jack, who I know has a silly sense of humour; I once saw him fart on a basket of melons as a gag.
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Andrassy reacted to the FT's report by tweeting a picture of herself with the UK ambassador, saying: "One more thing we share with our British friends – a good sense of humour ..."
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The only thing you can count on is that you can&apost predict what&aposs coming next, but this zany unpredictability is what keeps the humour sharp and the surprises fresh.
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It has picked up the irony-tinged discourse of the darker corners of cyberspace to couch political views in a humour that never reveals whether the writer is serious or not.
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Villanelle butchers her way through various adversaries with such an impressive mixture of skill, dead-eyed determination and – yep – humour that you actually end up rooting for her in some scenes.
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This leads to a first-half that has some half-baked humour and warm moments between Bitti and Chirag and a hint of chemistry that adds some spark to the proceedings.
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This story is a good example of something Irenosen Okojie does very well in her writing, which is seamlessly weaving a kind of dark humour with something altogether more tragic and poignant.
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For years in the post-Soviet world, artists have been using humour and creativity to exercise their freedom of expression in the face of increasing government censorship and a brutal police state.
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That humour fortified him even during the most arduous talks of all, those that produced the Lancaster House agreement of 1979, which paved the way for black rule in an independent Zimbabwe.
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One of these was post-punk band Cabbage from Manchester, UK. "The band sing about everyday issues with a sense of humour and no subject is out of bound," reads the article.
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He reads as little as possible, gets most of his news from cable television, retweets with minimal thought, and his humour makes it very clear what in-group he is in with.
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Perhaps that's down to his beaming grin, boyish sense of humour, perceived dopiness and strange likeability, or perhaps it's down to his thumping left foot and eye for an abundantly memorable goal.
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Unsettling and uncanny, like any good gothic fable, "Phantom Thread"—nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture, director and costume design—is embellished with touches of humour amid dark, sibilant drama.
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He breaks out his full actor's arsenal of ticks and affectations, playing some personalities with a twitchy humour and others with a blank creepiness that produces laughs and tension in equal measure.
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The story revolves around Jones becoming pregnant, and the film looks set to feature the usual mish-mash of tangled love interests, slap-stick humour and a healthy dose of British awkwardness.
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Punctuated by moments of humanity, affection and even humour, there is a dreadful, cramped feel to this book, as if to reflect both the experience itself, and the author's recollections of it.
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Rather than have the fan bundled off stage by security, Dion takes some time to talk to the woman, showing compassion and humour — even when the woman appears to grind against Dion.
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Still, it must really sting to come across as so dry, so without humour, such a cavernous vacuum of banter, that you are upstaged by Fyfe Dangerfield and Madge Bishop off Neighbours.
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Her determination and good humour are well known and appreciated by all, and we at the UCI have no doubt she will make full use of these remarkable qualities in her rehabilitation.
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On matchday, all the grand Victorian public houses are spilling over with white-shirted Fulham supporters, drinking bitter, radiating warm humour and cheerful fatalism about the events of the next few hours.
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In the Croatian war in 1991, Mr Seselj said his men had used a rusty spoon to scoop out the eyes of their enemies, though he later claimed this was black humour.
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Set in a non-descript Russian town, the sinister story arc is punctuated with blips of ironic humour as the main character, a high school boy, sinks deeper into apocalyptic Christian beliefs.
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It could have been a sombre moment in the film, but lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya brilliantly turns it around by injecting wry, rustic humour that is sure to make the grumpiest audience chuckle.
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Shortly after posting her sharing those photos on Instagram, Teigen was on Twitter doing what she does best: using her often dark, always-excellent sense of humour to deal with the situation.
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Best-known for his video game walkthroughs, meme reviews and idiosyncratic humour – as well as his burgeoning bromance with Elon Musk – the 30-year-old&aposs actions have sometimes come under scrutiny.
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Armed with a picture from Wikipedia and an impish sense of humour, Terence Eden, a developer at Britain's Government Digital Service, convinced the firm that he had painted a work called "La Gioconda".
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But when I stumbled upon Channel 4 comedy Derry Girls, I found laughter in abundance and a reminder of my Northern Irish parents' unshakeable sense of humour in even the darkest of hours.
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She'd have been within her rights to get up and leave after approximately two minutes, but she's polite—if slightly confused—and does her job with humour and wit, because she's a pro.
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It spreads well; it also differentiates the in-group from the out-group; how you feel about the humour, especially if it is in questionable taste, binds you to one or the other.
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They are one of the first forms of humour that children understand and deploy, before they move on to more sophisticated jokes that use language semantically, Vinod Goel, a neuroscientist, tells Mr Berkowitz.
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If he was the nation's Zola, Mr Eka is shaping up to be its Murakami: approaching social concerns at an angle rather than head-on, with hefty doses of surrealism and wry humour.
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Leonard was outrageously funny whether he chose to flex it or not, and anybody who looks at life and sees the humour in it really connects with me, because that's how I am.
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As such, it's easy for what they do to be misconstrued, and for their credibility to be overshadowed by eccentricity, humour, the fact that they are full-blooded, whole hearted, sweat-pouring entertainers.
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