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2Funny Loki: Got No Shawarma
[on a scale from wit to whimsy: Funny]
Loki lovers will appreciate the drama of Mozart’s Requiem paired with Loki’s absence at the shawarma table.
2Sports Humor: Dwight Howard and the Center for Centers
[on a scale from wit to whimsy: Parody]
I never played basketball, though I’m the sort of person often asked not if I played but where. Of course, I’m also the sort of person nabbed by diminutive redheads with AARP cards and a bit too much perfume so early in the day, taken by the hand to the granola section of the cereal aisle in the supermarket where that one little box of cranberry almond is pushed way to the back on the very top shelf, and couldn’t I just be a sweetheart and reach up there to get it and put it in her cart.
I’ve raised two Centers, though. I feel for them, the big men left out in the cold in the NBA All-Star balloting. After I grab a tissue from the sidebar because of this moving video from Dwight Howard, I’m going to see about making a contribution to Dwight’s fund to save the Center.
2Business Humor: Conference Call in Real Life
[on a scale from wit to whimsy: Parody]
How can you write funny? (Or, film funny.)
Sometimes it’s as simple as taking something routine and standing it on its head.
What if your next business conference call took place in physical space, instead of over the airwaves?
Try your own hand at business humor, and let us know how it goes 🙂
HT: Fast Company
4Sarcasm Primer from Carol Burnett and Stephen Colbert
[On a scale from wit to whimsy: Snark]
The Colbert Report
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Sometimes, it’s hard to tell when someone is being funny. Carol Burnett gives Stephen Colbert a lesson in sarcasm. “Stephen, I don’t think you got my letter at all.”
You’ll find a bit of satire and hyperbole in this clip, along with snark from Carol and even a dash of Colbert’s own brand of self-deprecating humor in the opening (which includes one sort of naughty word that could also be a man’s name).
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