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30 Jun 2025

In Defence of the Red-Haired Girl in the Freshpet Commercial

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She's right ... and he's a schmuck     I.    One of the ads on TV that I always like to watch - even though it increasingly irritate...
29 Feb 2024

The Funniest and Sweetest Person: In Memory of Richard Lewis (1947-2024)

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Curbing their enthusiasm: Richard Lewis and Larry David (Photo credit: HBO)     I.    Some people think Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were th...
9 Feb 2019

On Learning to Laugh at Everything with Larry David, Georges Bataille and D. H. Lawrence

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Credit: durantelallera/Shutterstock I. Everything's Funny As I said in a recent post, one of the things that the phrase torpe...
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14 Nov 2017

Torpedo the Ark Means: Everything's Funny (5th Anniversary Reflections on the Death of a Parakeet)

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Sorry about your bird ... The phrase torpedo the ark - borrowed from Ibsen - is polysemic. That is to say, it has multiple me...
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