comedy

Being funny, apparently, is not something that can be learned. You're either born with funny bones or not. That's what a leading psychologist and humour researcher says.

I don't think you ever can actually learn it. I think it is a natural ability.   -Richard Wiseman

 

Americans seem to enjoy British comics, but how do our comedians do over there? Not bad, according to Kurt Metzger, who just returned from a series of shows in the United Kingdom. "I had a great time there," he reports.

I had a great time there   -Kurt Metzger

 

The radio shows, soon to be available on the Web, are also the core of a two-hour WKFK Digital TV-7 documentary that premieres Friday. For three decades she and her husband, C.C. "Tex" Hamill, published Down South Magazine, a bi-monthly filled with stories of the people and places of the Coast. Marguerite Hamill had, the previous year, donated 43,000 Down South photographs and negatives to Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College archives.

At first I thought ‘Down South of the Air’ was the earliest radio documentary in Mississippi   -Charles L Sullivan

 

Fox News host Sean Hannity has a new book. HarperCollins says it it will issue Hannity's "Conservative Victory" on March 30. The paperback is billed as a call to defeat President Barack Obama's "radical agenda."

the seeds of humor got planted   -Marlo Thomas

 

You'd think after 10 years, comedians Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy would be tired of each other's jokes. They started Blue Collar Comedy in 2000 with comedian Ron White, hitting the road for what was supposed to be a four-month tour. The tour worked so well and there was such a demand to see it that four months turned into three and a half years, three movies, more touring and a TV show.

I don’t think we had any idea how successful it was going to be   -Bill Engvall

 

One in a series of occasional articles about how alternative comedy is fueling Hollywood. When asked what makes them laugh, comedy scouts will all give some version of the same answer: authenticity. The slick, one-two, punch-line act ripped from the day's headlines that might woo the two-drink minimum crowds in Cincinnati probably won't land you a spot on "The Office" or earn you a stand-up set at the prestigious Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal.

Fake funny can mean 1980s sitcom funny   -Allison Jones

 

Taste in humor is like that: highly individual. The crowd that turned out for Wednesday's performance of El Show Mas Funny , a bilingually spiced Second City show at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, laughed plenty. Maybe that's because a good deal of the material has been tailored for South Florida, and when bits involve the words "Hialeah" or "Pembroke Pines," the locals are going to giggle.  

FAMILY - she can tick that box. Career, tick. Friends, tick.

I had my adolescence after I had the kids   -Fiona O'Loughlin

 

U.S. actor Forest Whitaker said while "Repo Men" may feature gore and dark humor, he is happy he took a chance by appearing in the new film. Whitaker, who plays a man tasked with recovering artificial organs from clients behind on their payments, said the new film from director Miguel Sapochnik is similar to cult films like "A Clockwork Orange" or works from the comedy group Monty Python , Parade Magazine said Friday. "The guy I play is testosterone-driven and the movie is full of intensity, not to me

The guy I play is testosterone-driven and the movie is full of intensity, not to mention lots of gore   -Forest Whitaker