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New York Harbor Journal: If It Floats Near the City, They Want It 25 Apr 08, 23:46 ET From a Good Humor truck to a human torso, the Army Corps of Engineers hauls thousands of cubic tons of peculiar debris from the waterways around New York. more Scott Lucas’ poetry book full of humor 25 Apr 08, 23:39 ET Scott Lucas is serious about his writing but admits that he doesn’t take too seriously the subjects that prompt his writing. The end result has become a book of humorous poetry. “Anything is fair game for humor,” says Lucas. He cites as examples a centipede in the shower, changing a grandbaby’s diaper and losing his hair. more THE WEIRD HUMOR OF JACK VAUGHAN 25 Apr 08, 23:34 ET News from Mother introduces the exciting recent enhancements to our Web sites; Mother Earth Living ... NEWS FROM MOTHER July/August 1978 MOTHER HAS HER LAND ... more Wilkerson on top in Funny Car qualifying at Atlanta 25 Apr 08, 21:35 ET Tim Wilkerson topped Funny Car qualifying Friday in the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway. more Tim Wilkerson tops Funny Car qualifying 25 Apr 08, 21:11 ET AP April 25, 2008 COMMERCE, GA. - Tim Wilkerson topped Funny Car qualifying on Friday in the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals at Atlanta ... more Wilkerson tops Funny Car qualifying at Atlanta Dragway 25 Apr 08, 21:08 ET COMMERCE, Ga. -- Tim Wilkerson topped Funny Car qualifying Friday in the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway. ... more Funny Games (2008) on DVD 25 Apr 08, 20:44 ET By Roger Yip Warner Home Video will release "Funny Games (2008)" on DVD this June 10th. The film, written/directed by Michael Haneke, stars Naomi Watts, ... more Wilkerson tops Funny Car qualifying 25 Apr 08, 20:38 ET AP COMMERCE, Ga.: Tim Wilkerson topped Funny Car qualifying Friday in the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals at Atlanta Dragway. ... more Buddy's Humor is ready but rusty 25 Apr 08, 18:38 ET By DAVID GRENING OZONE PARK, NY - Coming off wildly successful winter and spring meets, trainer Bruce Levine may be one of the few who shed a tear when ... more Mike Pound: Weather has sick sense of humor 25 Apr 08, 17:58 ET By Mike Pound I walked the block and a half from the parking lot to the Globe on Friday morning carrying an umbrella even though it wasn’t raining. ... more John Cho's Party-Boy Humor Starts Conversations On Race 25 Apr 08, 17:43 ET By ROGER MOORE | Orlando Sentinel April 27, 2008 'I've always felt like I've had to please the 12-year-old me," says actor John Cho, the Korean-American ... more Looking ahead: Competition and humor in 'Hail to the Chimp' 25 Apr 08, 17:27 ET By Brian Bowers, Stars and Stripes If you’re looking for a mix of cutthroat competition and goofball humor, the obvious place to turn is the American ... more Humor: Gorak, meet Stephen—He’s smart 25 Apr 08, 16:21 ET By SCOTT HOLLIFIELD Stephen Hawking has always been among my favorite astrophysicists. I’ve got his rookie card and planned to paint a large “K” on my bare ... more 'Naked Brothers' to be spotted around town! 'CSI' gets funny! 25 Apr 08, 15:33 ET Avert your eyes!. Those "Naked Brothers" -- Nat and Alex Wolff -- are stopping off in Sevierville and Knoxville on May 3-4 to promote their new CD, ... more Infantile humor: "Baby Mama" - The Grand Rapids Press 25 Apr 08, 14:57 ET Courtesy PhotoYuppie meets dopey: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are an odd couple in "Baby Mama." I know, I know, that's not fair - "Baby Mama" isn't that bad a ... more Infantile humor: "Baby Mama" 25 Apr 08, 14:47 ET by mholland Courtesy PhotoYuppie meets dopey: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are an odd couple in "Baby Mama." I know, I know, that's not fair - "Baby Mama" isn't ... more Movie review: ‘Leatherheads’ scores with Clooney’s humor 25 Apr 08, 14:32 ET By David Phillips/Special to the Record Welcome to 1925, a booming age filled with the aftermath of the Great War — men returning to tedious trades and also ... more Friday Funny: Mickey Mouse is golden 25 Apr 08, 13:13 ET By Jon Nones According to an article found on CommodityOnline.com, a gold statute of Mickey Mouse has been unveiled in Tokyo ahead of an online "treasure ... more A Funny for Friday 1 Hour, 31 Minutes ago 25 Apr 08, 12:45 ET My hubby has decided he wants to participate in this weeks weekly thought on www.shelovesracing.com. So I guess I will let him ask me questions and answer ... more A Funny for Friday 29 Minutes ago 25 Apr 08, 11:43 ET My hubby has decided he wants to participate in this weeks weekly thought on www.shelovesracing.com. So I guess I will let him ask me questions and answer ... more Mayoral radio debate swings from fierce to funny 25 Apr 08, 11:21 ET This morning's debate on Vanessa Feltz's BBC London radio show was much better than last night's Question Time. At times, it was very funny; at others, ... more Student writers, directors, producers use bi-annual event to ... 25 Apr 08, 10:57 ET Simplicity, humor and substance combine to form this semester's rendition of the Playwrights Festival. Topics from strained friendships to climate change to ... more Satiric themes survive film’s sophomoric humor 25 Apr 08, 10:51 ET A lot has changed since Harold and Kumar last partied their way onto the big screen way back in 2004, White Castle burgers in hand and sex on their minds. ... more FRIDAY FUNNY: Understanding Engineers 25 Apr 08, 10:19 ET Two engineering students were walking across a university campus when one said: "Where did you get such a great bike?" The second engineer replied, "Well, ... more Lou and Peter Berryman bring self-effacing, Midwestern humor to ... 25 Apr 08, 10:16 ET by Jonas Beals It is generally believed that there is a “Midwestern” sensibility that permeates residents of the nation’s midsection. ... more Funny Family Face Address Labels 25 Apr 08, 10:02 ET Everyone in the family wants a good laugh every now and then; it makes the family more bonded and happy. There are many simple pleasures that give so much ... more Baby Mama: Super Funny, Super Cute 25 Apr 08, 09:39 ET As I left the screening for Baby Mama, I tried to equate the warm happy feelings I had to the after-feelings of another film in recent history and I came up ... more Harold and Kumar tackle race, politics, crude humor 25 Apr 08, 09:33 ET A lot has changed since Harold and Kumar last partied their way onto the big screen way back in `04, White Castle burgers in hand and sex on their minds. ... more Dark humor 25 Apr 08, 09:31 ET By MORTON I. TEICHER By Elisa Albert To coincide with the release of Elisa Albert's debut novel, The Book of Dahlia, the Free Press has issued a paperback ... more Nut funny: The mutant black squirrels that are terrorising ... 25 Apr 08, 08:24 ET Mutant 'testosterone-fuelled' Russian black squirrels in Cambridgeshire are giving their grey cousins a taste of their own medicine and driving them from ... more 'Mama' provides fertile ground for humor 25 Apr 08, 07:22 ET Amy Poehler and Tina Fey shine in this story of a surrogate mother and her boss, though the script is standard-issue humor. STARS: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, ... more Microsoft goes soft, Yahoo manages huge profit lift (funny that) 25 Apr 08, 07:20 ET No doubt the analysts will be sifting through both sets of figures to find the wrinkles. Microsoft yesterday posted a profit after tax of $4.39 billion ... more There's something funny about mission statements 25 Apr 08, 07:14 ET The authors of "Freakonomics," a quirky bestseller that applies economic theory to a broad set of subjects (which is actually more fun than it sounds), ... more Funny affair 25 Apr 08, 06:44 ET BY JEFF SIMON Arts Editor And think of what might have happened 10 years down the road if Benjamin Braddock of “The Graduate” hadn’t fooled around with Mrs. ... more Natal attraction; Baby Mama funny but film should have been edgier 25 Apr 08, 05:56 ET Tina Fey didn't write Baby Mama, though you'd be forgiven for walking into it and assuming she did. After all, her face appears prominently on the movie's ... more Murder is dead funny 25 Apr 08, 05:51 ET Peter Gordon's Murdered to Death is described as a comedy thriller. An apt description, as the joke on which it is built is an excellent one, ... more Author mixes murder with humor to cook up ‘Family Secret' 25 Apr 08, 05:37 ET BULLHEAD CITY - There's nothing funny about murder, but author Marja McGraw likes to keep a sense of humor when she writes about solving crimes in her murder mysteries. more Harold & Kumar vulgar, not funny 25 Apr 08, 05:05 ET When we last met Harold and Kumar, the dope-smoking screw-ups of what is threatening to become a franchise of films about marijuana-fuelled road trips, ... more Viewers complicit in Funny Games 25 Apr 08, 04:55 ET Funny Games is violent but it isn't a violent movie. It's a movie about violence in movies. Re-doing in English his 1977 film, Austrian director Michael ... more Cabrillo goes Wilde with spirited, funny 'Earnest" 25 Apr 08, 04:48 ET The Cabrillo College Theater Arts Department has opened its spring production, "The Importance of Being Earnest," a tongue-in-cheek look at manners and ... more Movie reviews: Return of 'Harold and Kumar' is raunchy, funny 25 Apr 08, 04:41 ET "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" is an uneven and too-long but occasionally hilarious sequel to 2004's "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. ... more All Hail Hurricane Gordo' derivative but funny - The Plain Dealer 25 Apr 08, 04:41 ET It belongs to Carly Mensch (apparently her real name), who's all of 24 -- and you can hear it, loud and clear, despite all the laughter going on in the ... more 'Harold & Kumar': Humor way too lame 25 Apr 08, 04:26 ET By David Germain AP The poster for "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" is the best thing about the movie, depicting the brainy potheads in orange ... more Stoner kings still provide funny Escape-ism 25 Apr 08, 03:54 ET By JIM SLOTEK, SUN MEDIA According to the law of sequels, the stoner comedy Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay should represent a steep quality ... more Harold and Kumar Take On Hugh and Ewan In Funny-ish Vs. Sexy-ish 25 Apr 08, 03:48 ET By Scott Gwin: 2008-04-25 01:57:11 When Harold and Kumar went to White Castle they did it on a $9 million budget and banked an unimpressive $5 million ... more Humor by Argus Hamilton 25 Apr 08, 03:25 ET John McCain was in Ohio where he assured steelworkers that he can make free trade work for them. That's actually true. If McCain becomes president, ... more It's sketchy humor, but Fey makes film work 25 Apr 08, 03:16 ET By Robert W. Butler, McClatchy Newspapers Universal Pictures Angie (Amy Poehler) attends a Lamaze class as surrogate mom for single businesswoman Kate (Tina ... more Jackie Chan is still fit and funny at 54 25 Apr 08, 03:13 ET Jackie Chan is 54, and as demonstrated in last weekend's No. 1 film, "The Forbidden Kingdom," he still has the comic timing and kick-'em-up moves that made ... more 'Harold' is funny, and surprisingly topical 25 Apr 08, 03:09 ET By Cary Darling | McClatchy Newspapers April 25, 2008 A lot has changed since Harold and Kumar last partied their way onto the big screen way back in '04, ... more No, it wasn't Dubya, but it was funny 25 Apr 08, 03:07 ET By Joanne Davidson Britta and Gregg Moss, left, are camera- ready at the Evening of Honors; meanwhile, Carl Williams adjusts a corsage for his wife, Lisa. ... more More MGLFF Reviews | Ex-gigolo's downbeat story is subtly funny 25 Apr 08, 03:04 ET ''I like being miserable,'' says Pierre (Jacques Nolot), the protagonist of Before I Forget (Avant que j'oublie), a 60-year-old, HIV-positive ex-gigolo ... more A bundle of laughs from two funny women 25 Apr 08, 02:33 ET I feel bad complaining about the current fertility trend in movies, since if I weren't watching women wrestle with pregnancy, I would barely be able to ... more Hax: Some things just are. Accept them with humor. 25 Apr 08, 02:13 ET By Carolyn Hax - The Washington Post Dear Carolyn: My husband is a bodybuilder with a really hot body. He is also good-looking, a nice dresser and quite ... more Art for the funny bone 25 Apr 08, 02:07 ET By S. Derrickson Moore/Sun-News reporter LAS CRUCES —Stephen Hansen's chubby businessmen, and unique personality-packed critters hang out in surprising ... more 'Saturday Night Live' alums find easy humor with 'Baby Mama' 25 Apr 08, 01:50 ET Former "SNL” scribe Michael McCullers wrote the screenplay and makes his directorial debut with the peppy comedy that offers some laughs but mostly feels ... more Recognizable cast, unforgettable film 25 Apr 08, 01:14 ET It's no easy task creating a genuinely funny comedy. Most of the time, movies will follow amongst the common footsteps of recycled jokes and overused humor conventions. The films that fall the hardest are the ones that compromise human interaction for meaningless humor. more Funny for Your Money 25 Apr 08, 00:21 ET Gas prices are up. Credit markets are down. You close your eyes when the ATM spits out a receipt with your pitiful balance. Except those don't always come ... more Review: Raunchy humor masks biting satire 25 Apr 08, 00:12 ET Of all the grim and somber films over the past year skewering America's mismanagement of the "War on Terror" - each of which has run aground at the box ... more

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