Leaning hard on the sensitive-brat charm of the eleven-year-old Macaulay Culkin, they duplicate and exaggerate every laugh-getting, tearjerking separation and reunion, every crowd-pleasing gibe and gambit.
But "The Nance" is far more than just a star vehicle: It's a snapshot of the way things used to be, and every laugh cuts to the quick.
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In such difficult times, we all need a good laugh every now and then, and you provide great comic fodder.
Unlike the first Santa, this guy was over-the-top jolly, joking and giving a hearty belly laugh after almost every comment.
An above-the-knee amputee, he can still be found in Central Park every Saturday morning, making people laugh -- and groan -- with his notoriously bad jokes.
Every time I sing it, I laugh, because it's about things everyone knows but doesn't talk about.
Every day 900 million people haggle, gossip, flirt, laugh, scream and cry on a Nokia.
They look like you, act like you and laugh like you -- for that we are able to see you each and every day through them.
"The absolute best thing about all the weight that I've lost is just waking up every day and realizing that I don't weigh 577 pounds anymore, " he said with a laugh.
Anyone who watched the frigid reception given Jeb Bush in response to his attempt to present serious issues for review and consideration would have every reason to throw away the speech prepared for the grown-ups and pull out the collection of laugh lines they had tucked into the briefcase on the way to the convention.
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