It can often have a humorous element - it improves your day.
The Beaver's blend of darkly humorous drama - not to mention belief in a talking glove puppet - did not appeal to box office audiences in the States.
Surgeon Simulator 2013 is a darkly humorous over-the-top operation sim game where players become Nigel Burke, an ordinary guy taking life into his own shaky hands, performing life-saving surgical manoeuvres on passive patients.
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Regrettably those chosen were not too co-operative in giving answers quickly or on particularly humorous subject areas - badgers and frogs were two typical answers - so this section wasn't overly successful.
He wrote beautifully and, after overcoming a stammer, was a wonderful orator: humorous, self-deprecating, empathetic.
For the children, the show is a new experience: a humorous, high-energy piece of foolish theatre that transcends the boundaries of culture, language, age and race.
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Her voice as it comes through in her writing, so personal, so visionary, so humorous and crystal-clear in its purpose, has guided me as to how to write this book.
Dirksen gave oratory a humorous afterlife as self-parody, a touch of W. C.
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His personal tip was Homes' May We Be Forgiven, which he called "poignant, blackly humorous and a ground-breaking portrait of an America turning to nostalgia".
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It is a humorous, poignant bringing-together of Peckham old and new, a hitherto unloved working class urban district on the verge, perhaps, of achieving international prominence.
Traditionally, such speeches are humorous and relatively non-partisan.
Mr Heatherwick's future projects include the world's first all-glass bridge, and a public square in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which will take the dramatic and humorous appearance of a gigantic, electric-blue carpet landing, as it were, from outer space.
They don't like to hear excuses -- lame, humorous or otherwise.
At various points during the week, the statue is clad in one of hundreds of costumes that add an even more humorous bent to an already-funny statue.
Mrs Tellett-Davies said she hoped it would be a celebration of the life of a man she described as kind, big-hearted, humorous and consistently uncomplaining throughout his gruelling treatment.
And our meal at 21212 deserves every spike of its sparkler - it's a humorous and clever romp without losing sight of deliciousness: plates look like elaborate puzzles, ingredients deliver snort-making surprises like parchment made from mushrooms, or smoked salmon with fingernail-sized buttered crumpets, all in a room that looks like Shrek's pulling parlour.
In contrast, Apple's ads have neatly-wrapped cutting attacks on Windows Vista in a humorous schtick that depicts the PC user as a fumbling fuddy-duddy and the Mac user as worldy, wise and hip.
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world create and share online these feline-inspired, often humorous, artistic creations.
And after Gov. Christie gave a typically humorous, humble and dignified non-answer, I decided that that was a good moment to bring the evening to a successful end.
Mr Lilley was moving the Loyal Address to the Queen on behalf of MPs following the state opening of Parliament on 25 May 2010, a speech which is traditionally non-party political and humorous.
But similarly named correspondents have been composing slightly humorous letters of complaint since the mid-19th Century.
Perhaps, I missed the "and part humorous" section mentioned by Forbes editor-in-chief Steve Forbes...or, maybe it's a "guy" thing.
Humorous ads were popular in the go-go 1980s but dropped off the screen in the early 1990s as the economy sputtered.
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Released in 2004, the album was by turns smooth, humorous and sharp and largely avoided the cliched hip-hop preoccupation with guns, girls and jewellery.
You can see this (and his talent for humorous caricature) in his large painting of skinny-dipping children swimming in the East River, "Forty-two Kids" (1907).
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But it also mutated on social media into humorous new variants such as "Romneyshambles" - used to describe gaffes by US presidential candidate Mitt Romney during his visit to the UK - and omnivoreshambles, referring to the row about a planned badger cull in England and Wales.
An amiable Mr Estrada would respond with shoot-from-the-hip answers, or what he considered humorous quips.
Josie DeGuzman gives a warm performance as a helpful government hacker, and Joanna Gleason brings a humorous, knowing incisiveness to the role of a tough-talking prosecutor.
It will be interesting to see if the rowdy elements in the notorious West Stand heed his words - there is nothing wrong with some gentle and humorous "Aussie baiting" which, after all, is what we get whenever we go to Australia.
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