| 单词 | pun |
| 例句 | In October, he wrote a funny letter, full of puns and one-liners, to Barbara, at college in Minnesota. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I made you promise no corny puns. I made no such promise.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “Whatever, girl, listen: I need you to suppress the urge to make a corny pun about what I’m about to say.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Both loved dancing, motorcycles, Bob Dylan, bad puns, liberal politics, and National Public Radio. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z After a second, he mumbles to himself, "Credit, people, consumerism. . . . There's a pun in there somewhere." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “Hue do you do?” would have been the pun. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “As I tried to say earlier,” Luke remarked, “living in a haunted house plays hell with a sense of humor; I really did not intend to make a forbidden pun,” he told Theodora. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z It was kind of a weak pun—not nearly as good as many of the cards that came later. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I'm sure plenty of men in New York care about climate change—which makes them hot to me, pun intended—but none of them are at my school. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Our extraordinarily clever pun on Ambrose’s surname was as close as we came to mentioning him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “So long as no one makes any puns about spirits and spirits,” Theodora said, holding out her glass to Luke to be filled. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a pun on free for all, ” I tell him, although I know he knows this. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s Baba’s favorite joke in Spanish, a pun. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point, and the pun is very much intended. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z The name of the gallery is Sub-Versions, one of those puns that used to delight me before they became so fashionable. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “The third riddle is a pun. The second riddle is a jumble. And the first riddle is for kindergartners.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “I’m going to put this out there, to be transparent: I can’t have a friendship based solely on puns.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Yes! Every day is like a treasure hunt. It’s too good. God only knows what else we’ll find, no pun intended.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I felt like I was in the hot seat, no pun intended. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I accuse him, “You told us you were gone on a postcard with a peach pun.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Okay, so I was having a hard time, no pun intended, when she was on top of me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “In orbit around Uranus,” I tell him, which makes everyone laugh, and it starts a whole round of rude puns that all sound Cirque-ish, because I’ve already checked out again. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “I just can’t believe his first note to us in a year is on a pun postcard.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Once he had conceived his visual pun, he could never be sure that it would really work unless he put it into effect. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the other young Fellows were dyed-in-the-tweed intellectuals who liked to pun in Greek. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It was not just sexism—but the innuendo of sexism that was exhausting: the energy spent parsing perceived slights or deciphering unintended puns. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “You made terrible puns, cheated at dice, and criticized the meter of my excellent poems, but you were once a phenomenal healer.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z There were heraldic devices worked or stamped on the sides—enormous Mack eagles with two heads perhaps, or wyverns, or lances, or oak trees, or punning signs which referred to the names of the owners. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only athletic ability, but also star power, no pun intended. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But he wrote it because he had also thought of a pun that he could not resist making. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That’s right, Big Mama Bear is always showing the whole world how to, no pun intended, find its bearings. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z They laughed then at the suitableness of the unintended pun, and it was in the sound of this laughter that Guitar picked up his brown leather jacket and started out the door. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He could always unsettle her face with a stem admonition or an old joke or pun in Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z An endless number of painfully dull classes have been rescued by a perfectly timed Cooley pun. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z I glance behind me to see a stone footbridge, turning back to grin at Stella’s pun. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “If you keep stooping over like that, people are going to think you really are an old man,” he said, turning my name into a pun. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I met him once for thirty minutes, and he made six puns and said “oh, fudge” twice. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “Whatever floats your boat. Ha! I made a pun. Get it? Boat? Pirates?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z A huge effort went into a Sesame Street character called the Man from Alphabet, whose specialty was puns. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I’m groaning too, because puns are the absolute worst. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Linguists term this decisive innovation, which also underlies puns today, the rebus principle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "I give people credit for buying into consumerism!" he says excitedly, having found his pun. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “You don’t look like an old man,” he teased, turning my name into a pun. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It took me a moment to grasp the pun—if you recognized a man's coat of arms, then you knew his family name—but the player laughed appreciatively at once. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Over all, though, the show keeps a light touch when it comes to pointed references, preferring to deliver a message of inclusion and generosity — along with copious helpings of delectably terrible puns, of course. Review: ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ Is a Holiday Treat Worth Savoring 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z The second assumes that puns are endlessly funny. ‘Eternity: The Movie’ Spoofs the Rockumentary 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z He also captures the essential sweetness of Brooks’ vision in spite -- or maybe because -- of the relentless sophomoric puns. All puns intended at DOMA's 'Young Frankenstein' 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The parallelogram of the title, therefore, isn’t the shape you remember from geometry; it’s more of a pun, suggesting a message, like a telegram, from a parallel reality. Review: Self, Meet Your Future, in ‘A Parallelogram’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z His current poster is a masterpiece of anti-selling, from the terrible punning show title and accompanying Photoshop-Nightmare image to the carefully chosen negative quote from the Sun, comparing Lee to bubonic plague. Paste masters: the art of the Edinburgh fringe poster 2010-08-26T15:27:00Z This fun little pun about breakfast will make both French and English speakers chuckle: 7 puns that make sense in more than one language 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z This restaurant, whose name is an obvious pun, looks like a mock fancy antiques store, and everything can be bought, at a price. Choice Tables: In London, Great Indian Food Without the Fuss 2012-02-10T18:08:46Z It depicts the history of Queensland, Australia, using puns and wordplay. Two Artists, Continents Apart, and a Shared Language of Struggle 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z The plot is — no pun intended — another story. Review | The charms of Harry Potter work on Broadway — but read the books first 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z There was also a surfeit of rock puns: Someone was even playing "We Will Rock You" as the truck passed La Brea Tar Pits. 340-ton boulder gets celebrity status in L.A. 2012-03-11T01:27:04Z Dense, challenging, aphoristic and swarming with recondite allusions and puns, these novels display an authoritative grasp of a breathtaking range of subjects. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Despite her television persona, Ms. Dickson Wright was not all puns and off-color jokes. Clarissa Dickson Wright, Rebel TV Chef, Dies at 66 2014-03-18T00:52:49Z That has happened to me -- sometimes the lyric I like the most gets singled out, "This is a terrible pun!" Stephen Malkmus stares into the "Mirror" 2011-08-22T23:01:00Z The Times published on Twitter a pea-laden guacamole recipe on Wednesday that enraged the Internet, generated countless pea puns and drew the criticism of a sitting president. Defenders of ‘Peacamole’ Step Up 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Caldwell Stone said other libraries are in a gray area - no pun intended. 'Fifty Shades' too steamy for some library shelves 2012-05-09T19:41:42Z Slight shifts in tone bolster the wit, while smart timing makes the puns far funnier. | 'The Comedy of Errors': A Farce With Two of a Kind 2011-04-12T21:30:50Z It's like hearing a pun in another language. Rory Bremner sees the funny side of Scottish independence 2013-04-03T14:16:43Z Which convinced the Empress that there are still original puns out there. Style Invitational Week 1100: Pun & ink — tell us a mini-story that ends in a groaner Park ends most chapters with groan-worthy puns and quirkily practical guidance for parents and comedians alike. Staring Down the Stigma of Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Create books made of food and inspired by a book or pun on a book title that are exhibited and then consumed, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-03-19T16:30:03Z But, unlike her parents, Ms. Smith wasn’t interested in dating a fellow actor — in general, she said, “there’s a lot of drama, no pun intended.” An Onstage Wedding Brings a Broadway Happy Ending to Life 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z One of the most famously difficult works of 20th-century prose, the novel is a linguistic mash-up of slang, pun, poetry and nonsense. Joycean Character Comes Alive in ‘riverrun’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The answers often rely on puns and double meanings, and a deep knowledge of pop culture is required. IBM computer squares off against 'Jeopardy!' champs 2011-02-07T02:59:06Z Harrison alludes here to self-presentation in her sculptures incorporating selfie sticks, but her wink to Sander is little more than an easy pun, signaling false affinity. At Regen Projects, Rachel Harrison showcases the art of self-importance 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z But the production still provided an embarrassment of puns. 'Spamalot' a summer treat at Hollywood Bowl 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z The author proceeds meanderingly, via assertion, association and obsessive punning, which sometimes leads him to skate over possibly important points. Steve Poole's non-fiction choice 2010-05-07T23:14:00Z She wrote an entire letter on toilet paper and covered it in playful puns. "Love, Linda": Reading my late mother's love letters to a man who is not my father 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Janessa Slater is the kind of media coach who swings her hair playfully and likes to lighten things with a pun, but also knows when to get serious. Funny, Kooky and Short on the Net 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z In a rare interview, Riley, 81, spoke about the use of colour in her work, which was dubbed "op art", a pun on the pop art movement, in the 1960s. Bridget Riley presented with Sikkens prize for her work in colour 2012-10-29T21:28:17Z But Lautner's leading-man debut was last year's "Abduction," a title that naturally inspired plenty of puns about his famously toned frame. Where do the `Twilight' stars go from here? 2012-11-17T17:15:14Z Every show is packed to the gunnels with beautifully crafted, immaculately delivered punning one-liners. This week's new live comedy 2013-01-19T06:00:02Z With their mutual love of spreadsheets and accounting puns, Ben and Barney are an accounting dream team. These Are the 25 Best Minor Characters on 'Parks and Recreation' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Wilson found Nabokov’s proclivity for punning intolerable and told him so repeatedly. Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson: The end of a beautiful friendship 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Bad puns aside, Nice’s people did not get high marks for kindness. These Are the Unfriendliest Cities in the World 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z But sometimes the awfulness of the situation just becomes the bitter remnant of a joke or an acrid pun like Hell Broke Luce. Readers recommend: songs about the army – results 2012-12-13T14:00:00Z The pun book harks back to a time before Ellie's time and an experience she never lived through: the school book fair. "The Last of Us" book club: Puns at the end of the world 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z But while parents may be tired of the pun, those under 10 don’t seem to tire of the entertainment. Spare Times: For Children, March 23-29 2012-03-22T22:00:09Z She says: “I’m a well-rounded pun enthusiast who’s always up for something new.” Date Lab: She asked him to show her Pokémon Go 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z The song, with a techno beat, was full of puns in Korean and contained the lines "I am a party mafia!" and the refrain, "I am a mother father gentleman". Korean rapper Psy releases single to follow "Gangnam" hit 2013-04-11T12:54:40Z He was refused and mocked; one of the judges even piled on with a bad pun, calling it “a hairbrained idea.” A Truce in Hand-to-Hair Combat 2013-08-01T01:06:54Z I don’t mean to sound facetious or come off as condescending, nor am I trying to pun off the group’s second album. REVIEW: Reissue of Definitely Maybe Is (Definitely) a Reminder of Oasis' Greatness 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z “Viewed in the light most favorable to defendants, this evidence suggests that consumers are understanding the pun, rather than confusing the brands.” No injunction for Beyoncé over 'Feyoncé' knockoffs: U.S. judge 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Though Schloss reminisces about many friends she lost, and moments when she was overlooked, “The Loft Generation,” as the sly pun of its title suggests, is not dragged down by sorrow or regret. New York’s Midcentury Art Scene Springs to Life in ‘The Loft Generation’ 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z He's going for "easily digestible, pardon the pun." ABC hopes `The Chew' can win over daytime viewers 2011-08-30T18:46:04Z A case of nail the cute geographical pun and then cast your net for the fame-hungry. Do TV's 'scripted reality' shows fuel regional prejudice? 2011-07-16T23:07:08Z I don't put in as much punning and wordplay as I used to. A life in writing: Jonathan Coe 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z There's a recurring vein of punning humor in the show. Seattle Erotic Art Festival marks its 10th anniversary 2012-06-21T20:30:06Z Then the Chinese government decided to ban puns, claiming that they breach “the law on standard spoken and written Chinese” and “make promoting cultural heritage harder.” They’ll come for “The Daily Show” next: Why satirists always threaten fundamentalists 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Apart from that pun, her collection was a solid hit, or rather, solid gold, given the multitude of ideas she packed into one show. A Crowded Calendar Causes Designers to Pull Out All the Stops to Get Noticed at NYFW 2014-02-10T20:07:59Z “Fake” is the name of Mr. Ai’s studio, a translinguistic pun playing with the ideas of authenticity and artificiality that inform much contemporary art. ‘Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case’ Follows a Scrutinized Artist 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Here — and the pun is implicit in Shakespeare’s choice of name — her scale is titanic, with wild jumps, catches, plunges and reversals. Review: New York City Ballet, With Heartfelt Pas de Deux, in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z More like a guy who would make a bad pun about eggs to be endearing. James Corden and the Dangers of Likability 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z So many 'Shake It Off' puns, so little time. Swift, Grande, Sheeran, Hozier booked for Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z We agree with the English writer Charles Lamb, who hoped that “the last breath I draw in this world will be through a pipe, and exhaled in a pun.” Review: ‘Nicotine,’ the Stuff of Burning Desire 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z In fact, the worst thing to come of the whole affair was the raft of hideous, sub-Saturday Kitchen egg-based puns that filled the papers the following day. The Britain's Got Talent final and five more classic live TV disasters 2013-06-10T09:58:37Z A: Both have an unhinged hatred of puns. A wonton abuse of power 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The play’s title is a pun on the Hart-Celler Act of 1965, which, by ending U.S. quotas on the number of immigrants from outside Western Europe, saw a dramatic rise in global newcomers — especially Asians. Lloyd Suh’s Plays About the Past Speak Directly to Our Present 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z In certain cases, the punning EPG-friendly title alone was probably the pitch. Is time up for scripted reality shows? 2012-02-08T15:20:11Z Filled with surprising facts and insights, “Built on Bones” is also burdened by Hassett’s constant pop culture riffing, puns and silly jokes. An archaeologist looks at our lives in cities, over millenniums 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z “I shotgun-blast puns and references and Easter eggs to them, and let them kind of just run amok,” he said. No Lion, the Skipper Is the Real King of the Jungle Cruise 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Perhaps the pun book is another example of this, or perhaps it's trauma-induced regression that causes her to cling to it, a relic from a life that was never even hers. "The Last of Us" book club: Puns at the end of the world 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z It’s enough, to linger here through the day, sipping “habib tea” — the name is a pun on the Arabic for darling — suffused with mint grown by Mr. Suliman and Mr. Sulaimani’s grandmother in Yemen. Where Avocado Toast Shares a Menu With Yemeni Favorites 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z He called my perspective “asinine,” which I hope was a pun, given the original context. “I don’t need to invade her private life to prove I’m cool”: How to talk to your daughter about sex 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Even though O. Henry revels in puns and wordplay, period slang and colorful rhetorical exaggeration, he keeps his narrative voice intimate and confiding. Review | Why O. Henry is so much more than those short stories you had to read in school 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Wheel Of Four Tunes is one of those puns. Clubs picks of the week 2010-05-07T23:12:00Z So, without further ado, here are 30 of "Puniana's" hilarious — or hilariously bad — conundrum puns that might make you the best-guessed guest at your next bash. 30 delightful puns from the Victorian Era 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Steinfeldt is a punster — “not stupid dad puns,” he assured me — who competed onstage at the Pun-Off World Championships in Austin. Creativity may be key to healthy aging. Here are ways to stay inspired. 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Freud called these images “screen memories”—no pun intended—and he thought that we used them to soften or obscure painful experiences. How Social Media Shapes Our Identity 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z On Jan. 21, David Cottrell, ordained a Universal Life Church minister, married the couple in a ceremony brimming with what Mr. Cottrell called “bad baseball puns.” For Them, It Was Love and Baseball 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The artist, who took great pleasure in elevating meanings afforded by lowly puns, assumed the role of "our Mutt." At satire's forefront, cartoons press against hard lines 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z “There has to be a time when stupid jokes and warmth and puns come back,” Bobin says. On the Set of the New Muppets Movie 2011-11-23T16:00:56Z They all liked to puncture fine-art balloons of pretense with jokes and puns. ‘3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1964-1980’ Review: A Celebration of the Weird 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Before the film began, its title made me think it might actually be about garbage men, and I even wondered nervously if the director would risk a pun on "humpers". Film review: Trash Humpers 2010-06-17T22:35:00Z First, we both enjoy bad puns, and there are plenty in the book that extend beyond the title. A cat book even a dog person can love: 'Close Encounters of the Furred Kind' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z “It got a bit hairy when, no pun intended, when I became the alpha male.” Malkovich, Cumberbatch make Comic-Con premieres 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z "There has to be a time when stupid jokes and warmth and puns come back," Bobin says. Comeback Kids 2011-06-09T11:20:00Z The fictional archipelago — detailed in a seven-page supplement in the Guardian newspaper, rife with droll typographical puns — tricked some gullible subscribers and convinced advertisers that the fool’s holiday could be lucrative. April Fools’ Day is a garbage holiday. Here is its terrible history. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Nancy Daly reworks familiar ones such as “Life” and “Risk,” and also offers a series of visual puns packed with retro pop-culture references. Review | In the galleries: These are not your usual travel pictures 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z The ones with the bad puns promoting “stoopendous bargains” and “crazy stoopid prices” typify the copywriters’ engagement, by default or with irony, with the spangled language of appeal. The Found Art of the Stoop-Sale Sign 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z In Herbert’s title, there was a sly pun: Herbert, the Pole, was the barbarian; Europe was the garden. A Traveler to Troubled Lands, Called to Bear Witness 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Since most of the initial foal names already contained puns, this week’s winners are poly-punsaturated. The Style Invitational: How do your captions Staake up? 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Best Win for Dad Rock: Beck won Best Rock Album for “Morning Phase,” and a couple of Patriots made some football puns. Grammy Awards 2015 Recap 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Yet he is acutely sensual in his longings as he dreams of resting in his lover's arms, or of being the prisoner of an armed knight – a pun on the name Cavalieri. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z Elizabethan sonnets are like fantastically complex little puzzle boxes made of words, crammed with extended conceits, puns, double meanings, shifting authorial personas and more. Shakespeare’s sonnets on an iPad 2012-07-24T16:12:00Z Charles Lamb, the English essayist, hoped his last breath would be inhaled through a pipe and exhaled in a pun. Recipes for a Tidy and Tasty Death 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Listening to Sibyl practicing monologues, Townes telling shaggy-dog anecdotes or Blaze punning and pontificating is like watching prospectors panning gold. Review: Ethan Hawke’s ‘Blaze’ Revisits a Country-Music Legend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z That song, “Love Shines,” was included on a recording titled “Long Player, Late Bloomer,” a pun on his two decades as songwriters’ songwriter. The Songwriters' Songwriter 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z But their weapons are jokes, cartoons, parodies and puns. They’ll come for “The Daily Show” next: Why satirists always threaten fundamentalists 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The pun, Dry for drei, emphasizes that this is not a sweet wine. How to Read a Wine Label, in 12 Easy Lessons 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Margaritas, 74, read the sad puns about last notes and final keys and looked at the photos of men sitting in their showrooms full of polished pianos that all must be sold, donated or dumped. For this piano man, the regular crowd no longer shuffles in 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Groth said that its dark humor and visual puns “really did influence a generation of comics.” Tomi Ungerer’s Books, for Adults, to Be Rereleased 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z She puns with gusto, potently and unabashedly, until one begins reading double meanings, allusions and ulterior motives into everything. A Comic Novel Asks Who Gets to Write the History of the Colonial Philippines 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Oh man, the only thing I love more than fashion is horrific, painfully stupid puns! Oscar dresses reviewed by a man who knows nothing about fashion 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z His pen name is a pun on the name Edgar Allan Poe. Readers' favorite international mysteries, Part II ? all around the globe 2010-12-29T22:49:04Z To that end, the Lonely Island’s songs aren’t punning parodies, but keen dissections of a genre’s cliches. This Ain?t Weird Al 2011-02-20T05:00:19Z And for those for whom the puns and jokes were just too much, a new line of classic purses completes the Charlotte Olympia collection. Paris Fash File 2014-03-02T20:06:52Z Gypsies cavort in old Mercedes, a visual pun on the name of one of them. A 'Carmen' in San Francisco breaks down barriers 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z The pun built into the title gets that doubleness just right: “Hymn” is a songful celebration yet also an accusation. Making Black Lives, Not Just Black Deaths, Matter Onstage 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Take “Red Wine & Blue,” a broke-up ballad with a titular refrain that requires Whitters to defuse a bad pun like a bomb. Review | Hailey Whitters made the year’s deepest country album. Just look beneath the surface. 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Drury’s analysis of “The Collar” — its title a triple pun on collar, choler and caller — reveals both the strength and weakness of his book. Book review: ‘Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert,’ by John Drury Pardon the pun, but that show crept up on me in such a way that I am crying laughing practically every single episode. Colin Hanks Finds Perfection in ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ and Tacos at Every Meal 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z While Emily is thrilled to get some one-on-one time with Ben, forcing that pun on the world is almost unforgivable. The Bachelor Watch: Do You Belize in Love? 2012-02-14T14:15:36Z But I really do wonder whether readers find puns as amusing as the subs. Memo to the editor of the Currant Bun: give the puns a rest 2010-10-04T08:10:00Z One part of the answer is that the gun control movement, in a very bad pun, shot itself in the foot over and over again. America’s favorite handgun 2012-09-23T15:00:00Z “The story is fishy indeed, no pun intended,” he said. ‘Wagatha Christie’ Trial, a British Spectacle, Ends: There Was No Libel, Judge Finds 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z This means the reader encounters, in an improvisatory manner, folk sermons, raps, puns, riddles, political slogans, advertisements, headlines, etc. Claudia Rankine Wishes More Writers Thought About Whiteness 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Treating Shakespeare similarly means that jokes and puns become more apparent. Shakespeare the Way It Was Meant to Be Spoken 2013-09-20T14:29:04Z And, perhaps not surprising at a conference populated primarily by superfans, there were the knowing nods and snickers at each lyrical pun — there were many — or mention of the most obscure factoids about his songs. Billy Joel-Loving Academics Get in a Piano Man State of Mind 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z He has mentioned the difficulties of the smaller-scale Canadian standup circuit, but surely it's his style – ingeniously appalling puns buttered liberally with smarm – that was the bigger problem. Comedy gold: Stewart Francis's Tour de Francis 2012-10-04T15:01:15Z He’s got a big job and plenty of silly puns and jokes—including from a Lego version of Abraham Lincoln!—to keep him moving along his quest. Trailer for The Lego Movie Is Funniest of 2013 2013-11-04T14:00:47Z Encourage lots of Only Fools and Horses puns. New band of the day ? No 824: DELS 2010-07-13T16:40:00Z Many of Schmidt’s visual or acoustic puns defy English translation. A Great Translator Takes on One Final and Nearly Impossible Project 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Sadly, it will take more than a rubbish film with bad puns to bring those groups together. Sex and the City 2: What happened to good old Sex?| Victoria Coren 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote that it delivers “a message of inclusion and generosity — along with copious helpings of delectably terrible puns, of course.” What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z She puns and rhymes and turns words inside out. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 2013-05-03T17:41:01Z The problem is, the point of a campaign ad isn’t to riff on pop culture from decades past or work clever puns, but to win votes. Jeb’s absurd #Bootgate grab: This cutesy dancing Marco Rubio ad reveals a campaign desperately out of touch 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z He's just a really smart box, one who even gets puns. "Jeopardy" confirms our darkest technology fears 2011-02-15T16:29:00Z The first section – what depression looks like on a dark night – inevitably involves plenty of low puns and needy stuff. Sane New World: Taming the Mind by Ruby Wax – review 2013-07-14T10:00:00Z The book includes his simpler constructions that use blunt visual puns to show, for example, “Reading Is Dangerous” and that speed by quickly. Cartoonists Tackle the Big Stuff: O.C.D., Motherhood and Too Many Books 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Best Line of the Night: Once again Jaclyn won the rose of our heart by announcing, “Shawntel just flaunts in on her high hearse, no pun intended.” The Bachelor Watch: That's My Man! 2012-01-17T14:20:36Z The Omicron Family Restaurant in West Bend, Wis., is taking the double puns of Omicron and Corona one step further. What’s in a Name? If It’s Omicron, a Minor Marketing Challenge. 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z There are seven basic kinds of clues, which he went on to describe as anagrams, multiple meanings, reversals, charades, container and contents, puns, and hidden clues. ArtsBeat Blog: This Time It's Crosswords (Not Cross Words) That Surface From Sondheim 2011-09-16T17:37:55Z There is silence from Moorhouse's young compadres, who seconds ago had been laughing their toes off at an offering of You Can Ring My Bell – and that wasn't even a pun. A week listening to ? Key 103 and BBC Radio Manchester 2011-07-13T13:53:37Z And the play with puns, visual and verbal, as in the kinds of sea metaphors that are taken up in the blue text. After e-literature, there’s no going back 2012-10-29T11:30:00Z Sala's conceit turns upon a hopeless Ravel/Unravel pun; still the music soars undiminished. 55th Venice Biennale – review 2013-06-01T23:05:00Z Watson required more nuance, the ability to understand puns and word games that are often part of the "Jeopardy!" experience. `Jeopardy' champs take on IBM machine 2011-02-11T15:03:25Z At times Parker's work can be little more than dodgy puns. Cornelia Parker: A history of violence 2010-05-25T20:31:00Z It had everything going for it: animals, a stupid pun, toilets. Martin Rowson and Phill Jupitus: 'Cartoons are a kind of voodoo' 2013-01-28T17:15:26Z This show delights in groaning references to all things Hitchcock, with name-checking puns, verbal and visual, to his movies and general style. Review: ‘39 Steps,’ Frenetic Thriller Spoof, Rises Again 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Or wittily constructed puns about what a total waste of lungs and a heart you are. Lena Dunham: ‘Caroline Flack’s death hit me with a sickening power’ 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z And ultimately the paucity of substance is obscured by meaty acting becomes this drama's undoing, and no, that is not a pun. Bryan Cranston is breaking bad in familiar ways for Showtime's dark thriller "Your Honor" 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z Why it scratches the "Bake Off" itch: The competition that Rosaline takes part in is a very thinly veiled "Bake Off," complete with three bakes per episode and outrageous puns. Hungry for more "Great British Baking Show”? Sample these tasty reads 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Gurba is addicted to terrible puns, and they get worse and more numerous as the book goes on. An Account of Surviving Assault Mixes Horror and Humor 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z The synopsis in the program would also be helpful, were it not a poem by the director, Moses Pendleton, titled “Synapses,” and studded with awful puns like “Fro ZEN Awakening” and “the Avant Gardner.” Dance Review: Momix?s ?Botanica? Evokes Four Seasons at the Joyce - Review 2011-12-15T23:20:15Z The pun used in the headline for the fake story about White coloring her hair fooled nearly half a million people who thought the actress had died, The Washington Post reported. Betty White’s fans feared her death for years. But the ‘Golden Girls’ actress wasn’t afraid of dying 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z But the comic pacing grinds to a halt for Kunrad’s harangue, at over 100 lines a monologue of tedious length, with heavy-handed puns on Wagner’s and Strauss’s names only adding pomposity. Music Review: Strauss’s ‘Feuersnot’ via Leon Botstein at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-18T22:30:36Z This is a trip into the bowels — no pun intended — of hell. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z Heaton described the manuscripts as short pieces, some in verse and some in prose, that are comic and written in a strange language of puns and word play. John Lennon manuscripts, drawings to be sold at auction 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z A reader who loved Moore's linguistic inventiveness – "all your puns and similes and allusions" – seized on this example and said: "I wondered whether anyone has ever compared you to Gertrude Stein." Guardian book club: The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z The location was selected thanks to the pun: as Van Ness explains to the taciturn George: “‘Yas queen’ is a major slogan for the gays and the brunch-going ladies of the world.” Yass queens! Queer Eye’s Fab Five on how they are changing men – one makeover at a time 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z He called the project “a real career goose,” laughing at his pun. Willie Cole’s Ecological Interventions Turn Trash Into Art 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Super Bowl 420, the Weed Eater Bowl … insert your pot pun here. The gay guide to the Super Bowl 2014-02-01T15:30:00Z In any case, to employ a pun: hopefully the booze I will have ingested prior to that moment will make the boos I hear a little dimmer.” ‘Rigoletto,’ in Rat Pack-Style, at the Met 2013-01-23T13:00:00Z It’s also got a killer soundtrack, no pun intended. 10 Films We See in the Grand Theft Auto Games 2013-09-24T22:17:56Z Mr. Newman, recognizable for his balding head and fierce dark eyebrows, was known to three decades of postwar television viewers for his erudition, droll wit and seemingly limitless penchant for puns. Edwin Newman, Journalist, Dies at 91 2010-09-16T15:17:00Z That’s a sly pun on the ancient and modern meanings of “mere,” denoting both “lake” and “insignificant.” Review | The most surprising novel this year is a modern-day ‘Beowulf’ minus the macho hero 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z “He likes puns and jokes and wordplays. I was impressed with how his brain works.” A Classical Duo ‘Nerding Out’ on the Cosmos 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z “One of the key things—no pun intended—of the installation was the notion of keys as a reference to places that are kind of lost,” he says. Nari Ward’s “So-Called” at the SCAD Museum of Art 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z This house, however, took the cake — if you'll forgive the pun. A tiny gingerbread house got listed on Zillow for 31 days, and the price felt all too real 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Both villains got a great visual pun in the finale: Limehouse with his "piggy bank" carcass stuffed with cash, and Quarles in his being "disarmed" by a cleaver. Justified's season finale showed why this series is criminally under-rated 2012-06-21T13:28:47Z I truly did not mean for that to be a pun. Ben Feldman goes from 'Mad Men' to 'A to Z' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Those tweets — strewn with emojis and bad puns and often lacking key information about what movie anybody was winning for — came in for even more ridicule on social media. Golden Globes 2022: ‘Succession’ and ‘Power of the Dog’ Take Top Honors 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z His incorporation of words, visual puns, serial images and semantic games opened up whole new fields of conceptual art. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: Blockbuster exhibition reveals a brilliant but bleak legacy 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z You'll also find lighter language play and even puns: "Extended Stay America." Introducing Janine Joseph, a talented poet who writes of being undocumented 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Don’t know what song some entry is punning on? Style Invitational: Make your own headline typo 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z “Love’s Labor’s Lost,” with or without the British “u,” is a very youthful, disjointed text, its thin thread of plot repeatedly cut by clowns, dullards, puns, pomposities and noodling that goes nowhere. Review: Young Bros and Maidens Harmonize in ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’ 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Megan: Our senses of humor were definitely very similar: We both used a lot of puns, silly humor, crude humor. Fox’s Tony Perkins fretted about Date Lab dead ends. So we matched his producer. 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z "Ess" tickles as a visual-verbal pun: the letter, on its side, in wood, forms a human-scaled doorway both upright and inverted, as well as a snake, issuer of that titular hiss. The sculptures of Cammie Staros contain beautiful wit 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Cronenberg's twisted Hollywood nightmare takes its punning title both from new age astrology and from the tourist maps handed out in Beverly Hills from the early days, pinpointing the homes of the most adored actors. Why no future Hollywood star could ever match Lauren Bacall's allure 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Ken Cheng won the coveted prize with his pun "I'm not a fan of the new pound coin, but then again, I hate all change" from his show "Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian". Currency gag wins best joke prize at Edinburgh Fringe 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Both attended what law school students called “bar review,” a punning excuse for socializing that takes place at a local watering hole. After a Few First ‘Dates’ the Relationship Turned Serious 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The pun is not accidental – language, for Fitzgerald, was always a release from imprisonment. F Scott Fitzgerald's 1936 piece finally appears in print 2012-08-10T21:54:00Z I imagine Scott will start building a pun graph or something soon. The Great British Bake Off 2021: episode four – live 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z This week’s contest was suggested by Reader but Not a Loser Rich Strimel, and it’s straightforward enough: Write a haiku that incorporates a pun, as in the examples above from earlier Style Invitational haiku contests. Style Invitational: Punku — 5-7-5-pun 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z If you don’t like groaner puns, go do the sudoku and come back next week. Style Invitational Week 1383: Questionable Journalism 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The dialogue snaps with playful alliteration, repetition and puns, even rhymes that punch up lines rather than overpower them. Review: ‘black odyssey’ Sails Through Black Past and Present 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Nim, whose name was a punning tribute to linguist Noam Chomsky, was raised in the same way as a human child and encouraged to use sign language to communicate. Sundance 2011: fewer stars, more ideas 2011-01-30T00:06:59Z The imminent closing of Timexpo: The Timex Group Museum in Waterbury, Conn., has inspired its share of puns about doomsdays and time running out. Timex Museum Prepares to Shut Its Doors 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z The bad news is that this book about genre is — pun intended, I suppose — sometimes generic. ‘Major Labels’ Wraps Popular Music — All of It — in a Warm Embrace 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z The media is doomed to produce stories composed of 75 percent recycled turkey puns. A Thanksgiving tradition for the birds 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z A combination of poetry, marker-pen cartoons and complicated puns, the show is called Why Is a Lettuce? An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: the cure for death 2010-08-17T11:16:00Z It’s the story of a couple on the rocks, pun intended to suggest the ice cubes in their drinks and the landscape of their conflict. Angelina Jolie Pitt’s “By the Sea” Is Personal and Daring 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z “I appreciate that she literally knows what it’s like to be in my shoes, pun intended,” Trenary said. This Ballerina Has a Mission: ‘Being as Human as Possible’ 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z It’s also a chance for presidential speechwriters to inflict — nay, strut — the worst puns they dare to unleash on the American public. Biden pardons his first turkeys — but who will pardon his bad jokes? 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z “Ray loved puns and limericks and had a wonderful sense of humor,” his wife, Tara, wrote in an e-mail. Ray Lonnen, British actor in spy TV show ‘Sandbaggers,’ dies at 74 Mr. Pinsky is also a great jokester, a lover of puns, a supreme ironist and a serious carnivore, a lover of the meaty consonants and diphthongs of that Anglo-Teutonic goulash we call English. Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z He’s such a formalist that he can indulge in some truly lame puns. Political Correctness Isn’t Ruining Comedy. It’s Helping. 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z He designates the lowly pun as the kernel from which all other forms of wit grow—puns, he proposes, are “compressed detective stories,” yoking strange associates together. How Wit Reveals the Trickster Beauty of Our Garbage World 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z After all, Mr. Pynchon’s novels have a reputation for difficulty, but they are jam-packed with lowbrow references and gags, dirty jokes, goofy song lyrics, shameless puns, ludicrous anagrams and absurd acronyms. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Despite the pun, “In Creases” is not a funny ballet. Dance Review: Justin Peck’s ‘In Creases,’ by New York City Ballet 2012-07-17T22:06:52Z Such suspicions, substantiated or not, have inspired many applicants to attempt to avoid detection by partaking in a new rite of passage, changing their Facebook names to alternative spellings or clumsy puns. Harvard’s Ugly Offshoot of Campus Meme Culture 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z SAT Bibliophiles, book artists and food lovers create books made of food and inspired by a book or pun on a book title that’s exhibited, judged for awards, then consumed, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-03-25T16:35:26Z The pun is a gun for "Penguins'" writers. 'Penguins of Madagascar' hit by a blizzard of puns 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z In Week 1111, we asked for puns on songs that could be used as the name or slogan for a business. Style Invitational: Make your own headline typo 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z I’ve got to keep it moving and stay focused on the future — pun intended.” Ciara: Motherhood Inspired Me to Use the F Word on My Album 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z This single piece of furniture represents sustenance and communion, and domestic dramas set at the table are — pun very much intended — the bread and butter of theater. Eat Up! Drama is Served at These Family Dinners 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z It’s called “Time Out” and so much of David’s work for me is about language and puns. For Glenn Ligon, Home Is Where History and Friends Are Inspirations 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z “I’m still trying to find my sea legs, which I guess I mean as a pun,” Mr. Heppner said after hobbling through his second day of rehearsals on the artificial limb his role requires. Jake Heggie Makes ?Moby-Dick? an Opera 2010-04-24T02:46:00Z She even managed to throw in a pun, saying, “They are Syria-sly hot.” “What’s next? Hotties of the Holocaust?”: Even Daily Caller’s own readers agree the “Syria-sly hot” refugee list is disgusting 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The style will be familiar to the author's many fans: digressive and endlessly adorned, with an alert ear for the shocking pun. Travel books for your Christmas wish list 2010-12-18T00:08:01Z Inspired by the satirical magazine the Onion, the site's name is a pun on Hollywood and Vine, a famous intersection of entertainment industry businesses and the Walk of Fame. Site's satirical take on Hollywood pushes boundaries – and earns raves 2012-10-02T12:19:43Z A reading of already old-news election returns resulted in groaner puns and jokes about different states. Perspective | Election night TV was high anxiety, flat comedy and Trump taking us to a new low. We can’t say we weren’t warned. 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z He appreciated the multiple layers of meaning in the peach emoji — the impeachment pun, the color of the fruit evoking the president’s tanned skin tone and the original slang meaning of the peach emoji. How the sexy peach emoji joined the resistance 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z The sculpture is a punning extension of his work on a magazine called Toilet Paper and also a wry tip of his hat to Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” urinal. Flush of Excitement Delayed at the Guggenheim 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z I suggest that Banville is enjoying a Joycean, multilingual pun: “cicerone” is the Italian word for “guide,” whether a book or a person. Letters to the Editor 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Snow White: All's well, especially if we go back and take the puns out. The G2 panto: Snow White and the wiki witch 2010-12-22T08:00:03Z “This Britney record is like a piece of me, no pun intended!” will.i.am told the Associated Press, referring to Spears’ 2007 single, “Piece of Me” adding, “It’s really fresh.” Britney Spears Reveals Title of New Album 2013-10-15T17:23:02Z Mr. Hugnet’s guide centers on a fictional town in Brittany called Trébaumec, whose name is a French pun that roughly translates as “good-looking guy.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “That pun would have worked better if you’d used a word for Hell that began with F,” said Big, engaging with her for once. With Carrie and Samantha’s spat, we finally get to watch the real Sex and the City 3 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Now, I’ve been guilty of the “bouquet of rosés for Valentine’s Day” pun myself, though I was referring to sparkling wines. Too cold to drink rosé? No way. Try it with your favorite winter foods. 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night, March 22: our contest for “A, or B” puns about historic events. Style Invitational Week 1428: The Tile Invitational VIII 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z There are jokes about Irishmen in bars, and anecdotes about Buster Keaton and Harpo Marx, and even some deliberately groan-inducing phrases such as “puns about German sausage are generally considered the worst.” Review | So you think it’s all a big joke? What wit really is — and why we need it. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z “Chase” puts a wicked pun in the parenthetical subtitle: Art today is currency chasing its own tail. Paul Sietsema's first L.A. show of new Conceptual art was worth the 14-year wait 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night: Our contest for mini-stories that end in puns. Style Invitational Week 1101: The year in redo — enter one of the past year’s contests “I would, but I’m really pressed for time,” Hatch replies so matter-of-factly that the pun almost seems unintentional. A printing press operator and a snail expert? These museum workers have become unlikely TikTok stars. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Though her portrayal of Rose Maxson in Fences is, pardon the pun, on the fence between Leading and Supporting, Paramount is campaigning her in the Supporting field due to a tighter race among female leads. Here’s Your Comprehensive Guide to Oscar Season 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Try as he might to squelch them, Joel's paternal urges rise up to meet her playfulness when she regales him with puns or teases him for his seriousness. "The Last of Us" makes an unholy meal of starving childhood innocence, served bloody 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z For anyone in the latter camp, little could be more amusing than a pun or joke that delivers laughs beyond a standard play on words. 7 puns that make sense in more than one language 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z There are puns and odd misspellings: erudition giving way to doodling at the back of the class. My hero Cy Twombly by Edmund de Waal 2010-12-11T00:07:00Z The Princess Collection, on the other hand, takes gold to new heights – no pun intended. Roberto CoinVoice: Inside BaselWorld 2015: The Best From Roberto Coin 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z But the actual easiest pasta dish seems to somehow get "lost in the sauce" — pun obviously intended. A fool-proof method for delicious pesto (and how to easily customize it with over 50 ingredients) 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z With a preposterous comic premise of a law firm that “litigates the liturgy,” and a show stuffed with songs, groansome puns, outrageous mugging and quick-change pratfalling, “Wisemen” is an onslaught of silly business. 2 holiday shows that revel in silly business| Theater reviews 2012-12-20T22:01:24Z Biden appeared to be in jolly spirits Monday, aviator sunglasses on, unleashing yet another torrent of terrible jokes and groanworthy puns. Biden pardons two turkeys, over possible objections from the first dog 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z They played board games, made up puns, traveled with each other’s families, and developed a calendar packed with social events and activities. What I learned about love during my years of reporting on weddings 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Sparky looks like an animated parsnip, but it is hard not to – no pun intended – root for him. Dog weepie movies – ranked! 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Ellie’s brain has been so warped by her book of puns that when she looks upon the splendor of an active hydroelectric plant, she says to Joel, “Dam!” ‘The Last of Us,’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Ties That Bind 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z There are jokes in Latin and Yiddish, and visual puns involving the local Spanish architecture. What was the source of Krazy Kat’s comic genius? 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Ken Cheng won the coveted prize with his pun "I'm not a fan of the new pound coin, but then again, I hate all change" from his show "Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian". Currency gag wins best joke prize at Edinburgh Fringe 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z The title of "Broadway Limited" suggests a connection between places, as well as, punning on the second word, the boundaries of that connection. "Boardwalk Empire": Everyone is currency 2010-10-04T06:01:00Z Competition is stiff, for one thing, no pun intended. These days, there are more performers than studios that can employ them. There is life after porn: Bree Olson doesn’t have to be a cautionary tale 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z In both its punning name and its serious musical intent, the Town Hall event typifies the original boom of Latin-Jewish music in the postwar decades as well as its fervent revival in the 21st century. On Religion: Decades Later, the Clave Beat Goes on for Latin Jazz and Jewish Musicians 2014-03-22T02:01:29Z No pun intended, but there’s no black and white way to talk about race. He Gives ‘Atlanta’ Anxiety. And That’s a Good Thing. 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z In fact, we spend way too much time around here thinking up stupid puns. Jimmy Kimmel's secret to his musical mash-ups: 'I love a good pun' 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z The title was a sly pun: “Le Mouvement” announced that kinetic art — an art of movement — was itself a full-blown artistic movement. 'Kinesthesia' exhibit in Palm Springs spotlights kinetic art in breathtaking new dimensions 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z OK, so less laboured than mine, but still a pun. TV review: Sherlock 2010-08-09T05:45:00Z Every once in a while a pun is good for a chuckle. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2012-04-12T16:27:08Z The result was such a hybrid that Krims invented a punning compound word to classify his Polaroids, which he called "Fictcryptokrimsographs". Elegy for the Polaroid 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Worse, the compulsive punning and jokiness distract from the book’s more ambitious possibilities — and its most interesting tension. An Account of Surviving Assault Mixes Horror and Humor 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z There were cityscapes seen from his tenement windows, and jazzy compositions based on verbal and visual puns. Art Review: Believing Is Seeing (Or, the Meat Of the Matter) 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z "You took them lightly" is a good pun. Poem of the week: Darts by Christina Dunhill 2012-08-27T11:35:18Z The title of “Out of the Box,” Flora Kanter and Pam Frederick’s show at the Katzen Arts Center is not a boast but a pun: Underlying the pieces are cardboard boxes. In the galleries: A photojournalist’s journey 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Happily, sometimes the terrible puns are so awful they manage to break through and become kind of amazing. Clubs picks of the week 2010-05-07T23:12:00Z Jennifer Croft’s sensitive translation is in tune with the author’s many registers; she even makes the puns click. ‘The Books of Jacob,’ a Nobel Prize Winner’s Sophisticated and Overwhelming Novel 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z For every cheesy pun in the script, there's a wisecrack worthy of vintage screwball comedy; for every character who is a caricature – the flamboyant British director, the dreamy understudy – there's another pulsing with individual life. Curtains – review 2012-08-03T17:27:29Z After a broad pun earns groans, he says, “That is a terrible joke but it’s the only one tonight you’re going to remember.” Reggie Watts, the Tip of Comedy’s Absurdist Spear 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z The structure was a visual pun, she said: one door opens and another closes. In the Garden: Thea Alvin on Life With Pebbles and Bam Bam 2013-07-17T23:02:03Z It’s a different world — no pun intended — from the ’80s and ’90s, when having a slot there guaranteed 20 or 30 million viewers every week. Kal Penn Isn’t Making a Political Point with His Immigration Sitcom 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z As ever, the show's painful puns and annoyingly all-out alliteration are a high price to pay for increased health awareness. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-01-28T07:59:00Z “Mine was a stupid pun. And she was thinking about the meaning of life.” Carin Goldberg, Who Transformed Book and Album Cover Design, Dies at 69 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Monty Python fans will enjoy making Dad puns when you put this wine before them. Sip this charming $13 elderberry wine with a fruity dessert 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z But she promptly divests the phrase of any clinging ceremoniousness with a pun: “Most poems are late / of course,” she writes, “like a letter sent by a sailor / that arrives after he’s drowned.” Three of Fiction’s Brightest Stars Have New Books — of Poetry 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Plus, there’s the edible kind of Π. The obvious pun is Donahue’s favorite part of the day, and the reason she agreed to get married on March 14. Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! Why it’s a big year for the ‘celebrity of numbers.’ 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z But it is, of course, far too many puns. Memo to the editor of the Currant Bun: give the puns a rest 2010-10-04T08:10:00Z There are obvious reasons comedy doesn’t always translate, including language barriers — Mr. Chow’s films are full of Cantonese puns and invective — and differing cultural cues and styles. Stephen Chow: The King of Comedy, Film Retrospective at BAM 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z See the 2005 results in this week’s Style Conversational column at bit.ly/conv1217, published late Thursday afternoon; not only are they fabulous puns, but they’ll show you which jokes won’t be eligible this time around. Style Invitational: Mergers you wrote — combine two businesses 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z She was loosely inspired by Anita Loos, pun intended, who was one of the only successful female screenwriters in the studio system in the '30s. From "Perry Mason" to "Severance," Jen Tullock explores the various shades of "American loneliness" 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z That little pun is typical of Aunt Lydia’s wry wit, which endows “The Testaments” with far more humor than “The Handmaid’s Tale” or its exceedingly grim TV adaptation. Review | Praise be: Margaret Atwood has published a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Forget even that the news of Bonnie Tyler's appointment was greeted by a million tortured Holding Out for a Zero, Lost in Sweden and Total Eclipse of the Votes puns on Twitter this morning. Bonnie Tyler is the UK's best bet for Eurovision 2013-03-07T11:08:58Z Barely a page goes by without a splendidly ludicrous pun. Jilly Cooper: Queen of the bonkbuster 2010-08-09T14:22:00Z Did you say to contributors, "How can we make a pun of this, or make this relevant to the topic at hand?" On a mission to make America bake again 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z These layers further complicate the reading of the images while visually punning on painting. A ‘Nasty Woman’ of Contemporary Art Fearlessly Renders the Body 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Can you honestly say that the entire premise isn't based on a laboured pun and awful, fake blokey banter? Food TV: a crop of lemons 2013-01-23T10:45:00Z It would have been bad enough if it was just a weak pun; it was made a lot worse because it seemed to take a political stand, and a controversial one at that. Oscars: Why Neil Patrick Harris (and everyone else) is wrong for the job 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Caring about one’s soap and shampoo became more mainstream — if you’ll forgive the pun. When Did Soap, Once Simple, Get So Complicated? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z GAG: A device to prevent speech and, ironically, a laugh-provoking act: Both refer to how people see China’s attempt to ban puns. Style Invitational Week 1108: Hearts of dorkness — your funny valentine 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z He says it in a way that emphasises the pun. The story of one man’s pregnancy: ‘It felt joyous, amazing and brilliant’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z “You know,” we said, deadpan and obnoxious, amusing only ourselves with this weak pun. My Mademoiselle Summer 2013-07-19T20:55:07Z Eventually, I started to notice daters “liking” another form of humor: puns, a.k.a. dad jokes. Analysis | So you want to date someone who’s sarcastic? How original. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Rush also gets to deliver the prize groaners in the clichéd dialogue written by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless: “There are some things worse than Set,” he puns by way of introducing the monster. ‘Gods of Egypt’ and ‘Alexander the Great’: Let Me Polish That Breastplate 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Of course, the title is also a pun: Eugenides characters sure do like to bewail their fates. The anxious, disappointing world of Jeffrey Eugenides 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Great article, but don't miss the title pun on Bachman-Turner Overdrive. ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3, Episode 8: Erlich’s Charade 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z He provides puns and one-liners in bulk, and while his persona depends on obvious stereotypes, the core of his appeal is a pure silliness with a mischievous streak. Critic’s Notebook: The Original Blue Collar Comedy Tour Stars 2013-05-17T20:33:55Z You'll have seen what they did there: pun playfully on "ogre" and "over" while worryingly keeping in reserve the tiny possibility that it may not be, in fact, over. Film review: Shrek Forever After 2010-07-01T21:00:00Z There’s so much to love about “Love Cycle”: The copious puns. When Patti LuPone Haunted a Laundromat 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z It's the difference between using an anagram or a pun: an anagram is just letters rearranged, and a pun has multiple meanings. Dan Brown still can't write, but he deserves some respect 2013-05-16T11:45:00Z Pop culture, art history, politics, puns, junk shop finds and handmade sculptures come together in the New Yorker's assemblages. Exhibition picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:12:00Z "With no pun intended, the film is a very unusual voice within the genre," says Reynolds. Arterton and Reynolds find horror voice 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Tollbooth was not expected to be a hit: "Everyone said this is not a children's book, the vocabulary is much too difficult, the wordplay and the punning they will never understand," Juster later remarked. Summer Voyages: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster 2013-07-17T09:16:27Z And so I needed a crash course, no pun intended. ‘Furious 7’ (With Movie Trailer): James Wan Discusses Paul Walker and Narrates a Scene 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Exhibit A is the punning physical form of the animated SpongeBob himself, which is that of a familiar household object, not a specimen of aquatic zoology. Review: ‘SpongeBob SquarePants,’ a Watery Wonderland on Broadway 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z It is the pun simultaneously multiplied and reduced to the absurd. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z But it is starting its farewell arcs, and it is doing so with the show’s signature balance of puns and pathos. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z It is a pun on the pub's old name, the Cooper's Arms. Jerusalem: the British slang explained 2010-06-17T15:57:00Z Season 2 begins with a two-part episode live from last weekend’s Loser Picnic, complete with a lively discussions of puns in other languages. Style Invitational Week 1444: It’s a whole new all-game — name a sport 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z The plot provides a loose structure on which the pair hang all manner of baggy jokes, terrible puns, offensive insults and groaning malapropisms. Review: In ‘Oh Hello,’ Sour and Crotchety Old Men at Their Best 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z I had to read that the section during which the dancers lie still is a kind of pun on the French term for “still life”: “nature morte” or “nature dying.” Review: The Sea Is Rising, but the Dance Goes On 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z He mastered blackout sketches, usually a series of visual puns linked together by the song 'Mack the Knife.' What TV owes to Ernie Kovacs 2011-04-18T16:38:00Z Come for that delightful pun title, stay for the accessible but never dumbed-down history lessons. 7 Podcasts for Stir-Crazy Kids 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Nauman's punning title circles back to the conceptual play with words and sight gags that began with Duchamp and Magritte. From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D Daskalopoulos Collection – review 2012-12-23T00:06:37Z Already confirmed for the opening date of what's set to be a fortnightly residency are Horne's regular collaborators Watson and Key, plus a set from irrepressible pun merchant Tim Vine. This week's new comedy 2011-01-29T00:06:31Z If it was Arnie he would make a bad pun just before pressing the button. What's the most flaw-ridden scheme in?cinema? 2010-10-17T11:00:00Z “Out of student loans and tree house homes we all would take the latter,” puns singer Tyler Joseph halfway through Twenty One Pilots’ breakout single. No Grammys for old men! And don’t let these millennials win, either. 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z My dog in the British version was named Ronnie Barker; no one here will get that pun, so he is now Sherlock Bones. Jonny Donahoe’s ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ Diary 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Saturday´s race was a pinnacle achievement, no pun intended. A 70-year old biking grandmother conquers Bolivia's 'Death Road' 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Johns’s entire body of work, to go by this elephantine show of more than 500 works, is akin to a trove of Nabokovian love letters — obscure and thwarted, but also punning, mordant, full of life. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z So this week: Contrive an elaborate scenario that ends in a novel groaner pun on a familiar expression, title, etc. Style Invitational Week 1100: Pun & ink — tell us a mini-story that ends in a groaner And while the Dolls’ gyrations are the production’s main event, some thought might be given to cutting a weaker number or two, especially toward the evening’s slightly — no pun intended — draggy end. Review | And now for something completely different: A play about drag performers in Israel 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z For Lee, adding Trump was also an irresistible pun. What makes an American a patriot? Spike Lee has some answers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z This is a show that deeply respects puns. The Good Place: how a sitcom made philosophy seem cool 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z As a frayed but still formidable death portent, Mary Ewald displays dazzling control over torrents of fractured, punning wordplay. 'The Skriker': where boundaries between us and the otherworldly are stretched 2012-10-26T18:34:21Z And yes, the humor is sub-adolescent, with the sort of groaning puns and flatulence jokes that schoolboys have always found irresistible. Theater Review: ?Peter and the Starcatcher,? With Christian Borle 2012-04-16T02:57:15Z The name is a pun on a Russian folk tune about the “Volga Boatmen.” An Obsessive Listen to a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Album 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The punning title of Ill Manors refers to the sink estates, shabby public buildings and dangerous streets of the impoverished, racially mixed area of Forest Gate, and to the aggressive mores of its residents. Ill Manors – review 2012-06-09T23:08:05Z He loved puns, he was a very, very warm and extraordinarily generous man as well, but behind it all the most brilliant mind. Fortune: Bremner and Sergeant tributes 2013-12-31T16:35:25Z Presenting the “Rice Bucket Challenge,” which capitalizes on a convenient pun to help feed the hungry. The “Rice Bucket Challenge” is India’s clever, classy take on the charity fad 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Takei is now something of a phenomenon online, regularly unleashing his penchant for puns and passion for social justice on Twitter. Actor-activist George Takei takes command in cyberspace and beyond 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Salty and opinionated, Mr. Gill was a master of the visual pun. Bob Gill, Graphic Designer Who Elevated the ‘Message,’ Dies at 90 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z But Coppola faced opposition at every stage to his unhinged vision, ultimately putting himself on the hook for $30m while publications gossiped about its calamitous delays with “apocalypse when?” puns. Is Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut the best version we'll ever see? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z His scripts had a full quota of alliteration and puns, and his slightly nasal delivery was distinctive - and much mimicked, most notably by Monty Python. Obituary: Alan Whicker 2013-07-12T11:45:54Z Then I extended that into searching for a film script — and excuse the foodie cliché, they are impossible to avoid with the puns — that I could get my teeth into. "The Menu" director on his film's crossover with "Succession," flavored by "corrosive" egos 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z But the pun is not why I draw attention to this strange and wonderful moment. Critic’s Notebook: Troy Schumacher and BalletCollective Open Eyes 2013-08-19T21:42:28Z Braben took pride in the fact that his scripts avoided vulgarity or profanity, although the scripts featured many mildly smutty puns. How Eddie Braben saved Morecambe and Wise's careers 2013-05-21T14:52:31Z The band name has caused its fair share of confusion with the streaming AI that can’t quite, no pun intended, connect the dots between the catalogue of Jarvis Cocker and Jarv Is..., the band. Jarvis Cocker was one of the voices of Britpop. He’s still the voice for England’s disaffected who just want to dance. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z That scene would have gone out before seven, which is for kids, probably a bit near the bone if you excuse the pun. "Around the World in 80 Days" co-creator on the twist ending, David Tennant and where to go next 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Variation is at the heart of all music, and even the withholding of variation in minimalism's strictest repetitions is a pun: the listener's perception changes when the music doesn't. On the art of variation: why Paganini's theme is so popular 2013-07-05T10:36:51Z The hourlong show is held together by the radio program, which, along with music, offers a potted biography of Monk: some good quotes, some bad puns, but no fresh insight or point of view. Review: ‘Thelonious’ is a Tap Tribute to a Musician 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Visitors are welcome to make puns about the attraction’s a-peel and slipperiness and its split with the Bannister version. Antiques: A Bequest of Modernism Enriches Two Museums 2011-08-18T21:59:44Z I had sent him a message on OKCupid, charmed at the pun in his screen name. How I became an adventurous woman 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Even if you pause the recording to discuss Juster’s puns, listening at the 1.5x rate will satisfy your son’s need for speed. Books to Give Your Precocious Readers 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z That particular Robin was a prudish killjoy who seemed to derive pleasure solely from socking crooks in the jaw and making terrible puns. The Next Batman: Is John Blake the New Bruce Wayne? 2012-07-25T12:00:15Z Every pun – verbal and visual – is deeply intended. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z “My favourite part about bringing Joy into the office is the joy she brings to my colleagues – pun intended. It’s tough not to love the puppy energy, it just feels so nice,” she said. Pet dogs are the new must-have accessory at the smarter office 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Food puns galore in the very funny trailer for the Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs sequel. Populist: Items of interest this week 2013-03-09T06:00:03Z Still running — deadline Monday night: Our contest to use a pun on a song title to name a business. Style Invitational: Think SHARP — a neologism contest 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night, Sept. 28: Our contest for haiku containing puns. Style Invitational Week 1455: Good idea! Or not. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z And I hate to confess, but I always think of Heart of Darkness puns whenever I hear Kurtz's name.... jponiewozik @ You are correct! Reliable Sources Answers: Who Shall Critique the Media Critic? 2013-05-06T17:21:49Z Her stylistic techniques — playful, polyglot, punning, postmodern and slyly self-referential — are more typically associated with writers of the French Nouveau Roman school. Christine Brooke-Rose, Experimental Writer, Dies at 89 2012-04-10T05:10:22Z One was Uncle Charlie’s Uptown, the other had a punning name I didn’t understand at the time: Camp David. ‘My First Gay Bar’: Rachel Maddow, Andy Cohen and Others Share Their Coming-Out Stories 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The federal government is increasingly washing its hands, pun intended, of slaughterhouse inspection and encouraging industry “self-regulation,” which is cheaper for both sides. Federal government is letting us eat metal shards, pink slime 2013-05-17T14:45:00Z “Ah, first day of tour,” he had tweeted to his fans, who know him for his puns and dark sense of humor. The Songwriters' Songwriter 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Why were there so many dumb puns about her being a “Desperate Housewife,” and hardly any about him being “Shameless”? Why was he listed in the affidavit as, merely, “SPOUSE”? Perspective | Where is William H. Macy in the college admissions scandal? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z If there’s a pun in it, all the better. Style Invitational: Punku — 5-7-5-pun 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The new film has garnered tepid reviews, with most critics praising the visuals but lamenting the paltry story and dialogue, and using their reviews as a chance to get bitingly creative without sparing the puns. James Cameron threatens to tell only "Avatar" stories from now on, despite the harm done 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z ICE celebrates the solstice — yes, there’s a pun — with a look back at albums released by its exceptionally gifted players over the past year. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s informative, in a slipshod way, but also hopelessly cheesy, packed with dad jokes, puns, silly accents and even a doggie beauty contest. ‘Space Dogs’ Review: To Boldly Go Where No Dog Has Gone Before 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Never trust a comedy with a pun in its title, that's the rule. TV review: Grandma's House, Inn Mates and Gears And Tears 2010-08-10T06:30:00Z The title is a pun on his nickname, "Yeezy", and the name of Jesus. Kanye West to call his new album Yeezus 2013-05-20T11:09:14Z It also revels in the kind of antic verbal humor — tongue twisters, bad puns, fleetingly tossed-off anachronisms — that classically appeals to the arrested goofball in grown-ups as well as to children. | 'Peter and the Starcatcher': Peter Pan (the Early Years), With Bounding Main and All 2011-03-10T03:30:25Z A pun about an "American Idol" contestant's revealingly short outfit may be fun - "Here's to looking up your old address," offered Tyler - but the use of blunt language "turns it into something crass." Steven Tyler to Supreme Court: Watch the language 2012-01-10T12:39:11Z Soon he was showing me how to solve its obscure clues, many of which consisted of puns. My Mademoiselle Summer 2013-07-19T20:55:07Z “The lyric is a tour de force in terms of pun,” Parks says. Pop genius Harry Nilsson left an unreleased record behind. Now you can finally hear the completed version. 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z "Pardon the pun, but ice fandom is a slippery slope." A frozen water expert sheds light on Starbucks' pellet ice transition 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z "All the stars are aligned, no pun intended." 2010-02-12T03:20:00Z "All the Time in the World" is a tepid tween comedy built on gimmicks like that, and on bad time-keeping puns. 'Spy Kids: All the Time in the World' smells a little like desperation 2011-08-19T20:51:05Z Their weapons of choice were feeble jokes, verbal and visual puns, satiric publications and instructions for absurd performances. Art Review: ?Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life? - Review 2011-09-23T23:19:41Z The relationship between the dance and Ms. Rosen’s projections is weaker, the correspondences or contrasts not much more than puns. Review: In Liz Gerring’s Latest, Words Dance, Too 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z A 3-D visual pun greets visitors to Civilian Art Projects, explaining why Bridget Sue Lambert named her show “Seal the Deal.” Review | In the galleries: Two photographers focus on the pastoral beauty of Arlington 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z And sheng, the Nairobi street slang that employs a hip-hop pastiche of puns and appropriations borrowed from Swahili and English, is the lingua franca of the city’s youth. In Nairobi, a feeling of otherness in a place he considers almost like home “It’s one of those really nice opportunities to work on a really good product, with fantastic farmers and growers, that was ripe” – he pauses to apologise for the pun – “for finding a market over here.” Ripe and ready: how ‘evil geniuses’ got us hooked on avocados 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Their patter is filled with puns and intentionally bad jokes, part Marx Brothers, part Monty Python. 2010-02-16T22:28:00Z Salgado means salty in Portuguese, a language you know, so I’m wondering whether that pun is intentional. A Documentary Collaboration That Didn't Start Out Promisingly 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z “Jobb bolsters his narrative with fascinating supporting characters … and he takes palpable delight in Victorian newspapers’ weakness for puns.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Take one example: “I’ve always hated puns,” he told me with a rare flash of passion that he chuckled at. Steven Wright, Master of the One-Liner, Tries His Hand at a Novel 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z "A large number of the puns, of course, present the usual anomaly of being good, because they are so bad," reads one 1867 review of the book. 30 delightful puns from the Victorian Era 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z The connections aren't always obvious but they make peculiar sense in the film, even if you don't get wise to PES's arcane visual and verbal puns. Best short films on the web 2010-12-19T00:04:08Z But even funnier– and even weirder in light of recent events — are the “slow jams” Williams did with Fallon, where he read news to music and Fallon sang and made puns. Jon Stewart’s Brian Williams dilemma: How will “Daily Show” handle a friend becoming a punchline? 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Charlotte never was any good at the pun thing. With Carrie and Samantha’s spat, we finally get to watch the real Sex and the City 3 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z A musical comedy that delights in the pun, the groaner and the quick aside, the show is sometimes far from great. | 'Iron Curtain': ?Iron Curtain? at Baruch Performing Arts - Review 2011-11-16T22:59:30Z They adopt their materials with exacting deliberateness, often setting in motion a visual pun or witty self-referential turn. 'Conceptual Craft' at Denk Gallery: The wood chair returned to nature and other heady ideas 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z White fish shortages, bread crumb shortages and even energy shortages to cook the dish itself mean trouble for the COVID-battered small businesses — no pun intended. The United Kingdom could lose more than a third of its iconic fish and chips shops 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z A micro-artist renowned as Turkey’s Microangelo, a pun on Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo, Kale paints scenes from Istanbul on miniature objects or even food particles. Turkish 'Microangelo' tells Istanbul's tale on miniature objects 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The film’s title is a pun on the Italian word for the holy grail, a commentary on the difficult lives of those living on the outskirts of the Italian capital. ArtsBeat: Italian Documentary Takes Top Prize at Venice Film Festival 2013-09-09T19:20:55Z Meanwhile, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller took full advantage of the power of wordplay and puns to build "The Lego Movie," setting a new standard of play in blending inventive adult-centric ideas with kid-pleasing animation. Daring films lifted the artform in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Today, puns, foiled lettering and swearwords seem to be popular. Enduring love: how gen Z saved the greetings card 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z But for admirers of the craft, you have to marvel at the speed of his leaps of logic, the density of the puns, the pretzel-like callbacks. 5 New Comedy Specials to Remind You of the Old Normal 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Many of the puns, which I will not try to top, are of course about corn, from the title on down. Review: In ‘Shucked,’ a Glut of Gleeful Puns and ‘Cornography’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Though clever hashtags are the most popular, “not everyone loves puns,” Mr. Shelley said. Tips for Creating the Perfect Wedding Hashtag 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Soper performed the second selection, as an allegory of Reason, in which a neo-Classical piano part adds arch prettiness to a text that cleverly spins variations and puns on the same key words. Review: Conjuring the Splintered Self With Electronics and Voice 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Secrets to his teaching “He speaks in contradictions and koans. He’s always making jokes and puns directed at himself and others.” What a Group of Disciples Discovered Along the Way 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Jeffrey Gibson’s 2014 sculpture, “White Power,” turns the notion into a pun through a found vinyl punching bag adorned with white fringe, steel studs and plastic beads. Nick Cave, Ana Mendieta And Brendan Fernandes Shine In 'Between History And The Body' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z This year, though, omitting turkey entirely seems to be on the menu, pun intended. This Thanksgiving's main course might be something other than turkey 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z Others have a New Yorker’s sense of humor, someone who appreciates a good pun. Sidewalk Blackboards Offer a Little Chalk ’n’ Chew 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z In recent years, Kupferberg's health faltered and his activity with the band declined, yet he continued to experiment with words, posting his punning aphorisms – he dubbed them "perverbs" – online. Tuli Kupferberg obituary 2010-07-26T17:38:00Z Has the punning prima donna got his comeuppance? Book reviews roundup 2011-01-22T00:06:24Z Growing closer in turn inspired a new artwork at the Geffen: 29 small photographs called “Looking for the Sun,” pun intended, about how fathers both “possess and don’t possess” their children. William Pope.L Makes Statements From the Fringes 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z No pun intended, he was kind of like an outcast in the world. André Benjamin talks to TIME 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Please excuse the pun, but can you describe how “The Baby” was conceived? In ‘The Baby,’ Killing With Cuteness 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Yet the first line of dialogue is “I swear, man, we can’t be no one’s suckers,” which leads into some very filthy puns. Review: A ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Clowns Around With Tragedy 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Charlotte tweaked it to “Bundo” because that was a pun she couldn’t refuse. He’s Bunny of the United States. And now he’s the hero of a children’s book, too. 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z His music, even since Pavement melted into entropy in 1999, has been jarring and opaque, defined by lyrics that circle around homonyms and puns, or break from generational observations into non sequiturs. Stephen Malkmus Doesn’t Think He Was a Jerk 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Once the ruination starts, the newspapers are brutal, making Tree puns about splinters, sap, pulp, etc. Books of The Times: Golf Phenom, Not Tiger Woods. Sure. 2011-06-30T21:03:11Z Instead, Harris trotted out a number of puns — Snowden couldn't be there "for some treason" — as well as a bit in which he spoofed "Birdman" and ended up on stage in his underwear. At the Oscars, it's the night of the 'Birdman' 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z A micro-artist renowned as Turkey’s Microangelo, a pun on Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo, Kale paints scenes from Istanbul on miniature objects or even food particles. Turkish 'Microangelo' tells Istanbul's tale on miniature objects 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z MR: A series for the New Statesman of excruciatingly bad puns based on the dicta of Marx and Engels. Martin Rowson and Phill Jupitus: 'Cartoons are a kind of voodoo' 2013-01-28T17:15:26Z I’ve been working on a joke book for years now, and it’s mostly puns. In "Hausfrau," "Anna Karenina" Goes "Fifty Shades of Grey" 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The page almost groans under the dead weight of that pun. Review | From Gourmet to Serious Eats, two food memoirs chronicle the pitfalls of old and new media 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z As Shakespeare’s disposable characters become the stars of their own show, the puns, shtick, and rhyming couplets flow—alongside every conceivable bodily fluid, spewed from corpses and actors alike. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Compressed quotes can't give the full flavour of Parks's raconteurish charm; his fondness for looping tangents, pungent opinions, historical trivia, useful quotes, deadpan puns, colourful aphorisms and mischievous asides. Van Dyke Parks: 'I was victimised by Brian Wilson's buffoonery' 2013-05-09T17:30:01Z The punning, exuberant text results in a genuinely German version, a “Hamilton” eminently, entirely at home in the language. Review: ‘Hamilton’ in German? It’s a Thrill. 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z “A rational jury might or might not conclude that the pun here is sufficient to dispel any confusion among the purchasing public,” she wrote. No injunction for Beyoncé over 'Feyoncé' knockoffs: U.S. judge 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z The emphasis on puns, obscure references and lightly twisted language suggests Firesign Theatre in its heyday. ‘Consuming Spirits’: Animated epic heads into Appalachian backwoods 2013-01-31T22:43:36Z Cartoons rely heavily on movement and timing and visual puns, compounding the novelist’s difficulty. Review | Can a friendship between two cartoonists survive their own success? 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z After their initial date, she said, “I remember I texted two of my best friends and said something to the effect of, ‘He even likes my stupid puns.’” Equal Partners Who Love to Talk 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Dr. Cohen said that Mr. Caplan’s sense of humor, especially his penchant for lacing conversations with puns “like a Borscht-belt Jewish comedian,” was among the qualities she found attractive in him. Before ‘Elvis,’ Improv Students Exchange Ad-Libbed Vows 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Characters start off in a cameo and, to put a pun on it, spawn into something bigger. Biff! Pow! Comic artists clash over copyrights 2010-06-13T17:37:00Z However, Kardashian-West decided to file for a trademark of the word for her new brand, using it as a pun on her first name. Kim Kardashian accused of 'cultural appropriation' over new 'Kimono' shapewear line 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z How does she know when something is art or just a punning stunt? Cornelia Parker: A history of violence 2010-05-25T20:31:00Z The worst part of the Great British Bake Off, the curdle in the custard, is Mel and Sue’s insufferable puns. I love The Great British Bake Off, but won't miss Mel and Sue 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z First of all, there's the name with its 4-character pun on "3-Dimensional Forum." UW faculty artists get an 'A' at Traver Gallery exhibition 2012-03-08T23:36:01Z At least half of Shakespeare's allusions are unfamiliar, and many senses, puns and proverbial usages have been completely lost. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z It almost goes without saying that these choices do not even scratch the surface — pardon the pun — of the viewing options. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z Increasingly he is using this brand not just to crack visual puns but as a vehicle for comment. Anger Management at Prada and Moschino 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Used by anyone else, this would just have been a feeble pun, but when said by him it is side-splittingly funny. The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, edited by Harry Mount – review 2013-06-02T17:00:01Z In sum, Monday’s season premiere felt to me as if it were mostly getting the show out of — pun alert — the box it had been sealed in during that boffo Season 1 finale. 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: Horseman With No Head; Ben Franklin With No Breeches 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z The group is on a bit of a roll — no pun intended. The Rolling Stones' "Hackney Diamonds" is pure rock 'n' roll, capping an unparalleled career 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Q: Passenger Shaming, which began as a feature on Rants of a Sassy Stew, has really taken off — no pun intended. Rants (and no raves) about passengers’ bad behavior 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Just so you know: There are lots of bad puns on tuna and even more jokes that qualify as politically incorrect, involving references to the Holocaust, the stars’ unseen Indian intern and dead celebrities. Review: ‘Oh, Hello on Broadway’ Stars an Even Odder Couple 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z We're disappointed by these titles – whatever happened to the gratuitous pun? The best celebrity memoir titles 2012-10-06T23:05:59Z He publicly made puns about the Nazi gas ovens. Euro crisis? vultures 2012-05-17T15:25:00Z But that, Mr. Gouzer says, is the whole point; the Nauman is “a bit of a work pun,” particularly given the more subdued mood in the market. Christie’s Offers a Sale on the Theme of Potential Failure 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Personality becomes unimportant, the violence level escalates to the point of exhaustion and the whole project suffers from, pardon the pun, overkill. Why was edgy Fernando Meirelles chosen to direct Rio's opening ceremony? A revealing film review 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z A pun on "burning" in line four may imply that Bethsabe suspects she is being watched and is in danger both of arousing passion and of herself being aroused. Poem of the week: Bethsabe's Song by George Peele 2010-10-11T10:37:00Z At the same time, it's to be caught up in puzzles, spiritual quests, the play of puns and images, and the joys of the purely comic. Dancer Amelia Reeber plays with puns and images in 'this is a forgery' 2010-04-23T18:24:00Z The quickfire format, with ad breaks and guests, did not – pardon the pun – allow for much probing. Ben Elton's standup comeback 2010-10-11T11:07:00Z “A way to weave, pun intended, all the facets of my life together in a way that felt true to me today.” For Sutton Foster, Crochet Is a Survival Tactic 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Worse, according to one report, Samantha thought the movies had “too many puns”. With Carrie and Samantha’s spat, we finally get to watch the real Sex and the City 3 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Our winner might be a pitch based on a pun but it still won over our judges, all but one of whom had this on their shortlist. Twitpitch challenge: results revealed 2010-10-01T14:57:00Z The caption read "Paris's First Day as a Waitress" and made a pun on her trademarked catch phrase, "That's Hot." That's Hot: Paris Hilton settles Hallmark lawsuit 2010-09-27T01:04:00Z This is perhaps the queen of all multilingual puns. 7 puns that make sense in more than one language 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z A central pun: The chapters are named for the elements of a letter, the longest being “Body.” A Dystopian America Where a Woman Who Can Read and Write Wields Special Power 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The thing that makes this so novel — forgive the pun — is that he wrote so few novels. Fragment of lost novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald found 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z I will keep a log of every Amanda pun, but only for you. The Great British Bake Off 2021: episode four – live 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z But it's the cast that makes this show really soar, pun intended. Review: It's a bird, a plane ... and a heckuva show 2013-03-21T22:57:51Z It was tongue-in-cheek and provided them “a wall of puns,” she said. The women of Thunderpussy want to talk music, not feminism 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z For more than two hours, it pelts you with piffle so egregious — not just puns but also dad jokes, double entendres and booby-trapped one-liners — that, forced into submission, you eventually give in. Review: In ‘Shucked,’ a Glut of Gleeful Puns and ‘Cornography’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z And Even Laster: So, Empress, what did you say to the Style Invitational contestants at the Loser brunch after judging all the bad puns in this contest? Style Invitational Week 1383: Questionable Journalism 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Cheesy puns are welcome, but please avoid any unnecessary crudities. How to eat: chips 'n' dips 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z "That leaves puns, Marv," replies a nonplussed Don, shortly before bringing in another man to entertain him by repeatedly socking his loyal underling in the gut. "The Kids in the Hall" are old now, and that makes their comedy still very much alright 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z On the other hand, there is also recurring evidence that much about Mr. Wegman’s early Conceptualism continues, especially his love of language, humor and verbal and visual puns, and his disdain for traditional skill. Art Review: ‘William Wegman: Hello Nature’ at Bowdoin College Museum 2012-08-16T17:46:55Z From that moment onward, Ms. Dougan’s beautiful rear view became tabloid fodder for Hollywood gossip columns — and inspired a profuse number of groan-inducing puns. What Happened to Vikki Dougan? 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z It’s a little more adult than, say, a Jungle Cruise pun. ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ to debut at Disneyland, with much more Marvel to come 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z A pun that spans multiple languages—behold the haute dog, a genteel frankfurter—is called “macaronic,” from the Latin word for “medley.” How Wit Reveals the Trickster Beauty of Our Garbage World 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Eschewing his usual pop culture punning — McDonald’s, paper dolls, TV game shows — his riff was on Picasso: the artist’s muses, his most famous paintings, his passion for bullfighting. ‘Is It Theater or Is It Real?’ 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z For the dimwitted habitués of comments threads, it was the news item that launched a thousand lame puns. They cut off his beard and left him bleeding: The cruelest Amish hate crime ever committed 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z Boils and ghouls curious about the show's history should keep reading, or more puns will follow. 12 spine-tingling facts about "Tales From the Crypt" 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z But airport officials concede they can’t keep out the ubiquitous “Rocky Mountain High” puns and other slogans. Denver airport bans sale of pot-themed souvenirs 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z And hate to confess, but I always think of Heart of Darkness puns whenever I hear Kurtz's name....I remember seeing you on Reliable Sources once, James! Reliable Sources Answers: Who Shall Critique the Media Critic? 2013-05-06T17:21:49Z The letters are full of puns, homophones and word play using words that share the Indo-European roots of “page” and “screen.” Can you identify? 2012-05-17T00:00:00Z I think it adds -- no pun intended -- another dimension to the film. Filmmaker aims to recapture the magic of "Narnia" 2010-12-07T23:54:00Z An episode titled “Slappointment in Slapmarra” was a high point of puns and inspired silliness, taking the characters into a mock martial-arts odyssey to masters of the art in Shanghai and Cleveland. The TV Watch: ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Ends With Twists Expected and Sweet 2014-04-01T04:10:26Z In her case, we get a disjointed narrative of visual puns, sly criticisms and uncanny juxtapositions, most with a distinct feminist slant. MoMA’s Art Treasure, No Longer Buried 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z But there are too many objects, too many of which are one-shot or just weak as visual puns. Dance Review: Aki Sasamoto’s ‘Sunny in the Furnace,’ at the Kitchen 2014-03-07T23:16:54Z A former architect and university professor, Gerry drinks too much and is given to making punning quips as a means of remaining emotionally disengaged from his life. Exploring the mystery of a long, challenged marriage 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Back in the days when I subbed on The Sun - admittedly, almost 40 years ago - punning headlines were valued, but rare. Memo to the editor of the Currant Bun: give the puns a rest 2010-10-04T08:10:00Z Nagging, wheedling, needling, needy or demanding moms — often of the Jewish persuasion, it must be said — have been an endlessly fertile resource for comedy writers, the mother lode if you will permit a blunt pun. | 'Relatively Speaking': ?Relatively Speaking? at Brooks Atkinson Theater ? Review 2011-10-21T02:01:14Z This feels like half a joke: why a pun on barbecue? The search for the funniest Christmas cracker jokes 2010-12-19T00:06:25Z Now, the trick is to see the life in them, once we squint past the visually overwhelming chaos of Element City, a smelting pot of puns and allusions. ‘Elemental’ Review: Sparks Fly 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z In short order, Ted joined the Style Invitational Devotees page on Facebook and shared the groaner above, “the best pun I have ever created.” Style Invitational Week 1100: Pun & ink — tell us a mini-story that ends in a groaner “That booty got insurance. That booty got Progressive,” Lil Wayne puns after Thompson and Redd skulk up to unguarded drinks and cover them with coasters. Pete Davidson’s Congressional Visitor and Earnest Address on “Saturday Night Live” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z The homegrown audience, which made this one of Almodóvar’s biggest local hits, would be tickled by the Spanish puns and slang, and certainly hipper to the movie’s satirical view of a country wracked by recession. I’m So Excited!: Almodóvar’s Bumpy Flight 2013-06-27T18:36:06Z It makes for harmonious—I don’t mean the pun—relations. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z The title of Mr. Gaines’s “Sum Stravinsky,” choreographed to that composer’s “Dumbarton Oaks” concerto, is a pun: “sum” for “some” but also “sum” for “addition.” Dance Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, Mark Morris Premiere 2012-11-05T22:54:53Z The whole thing is the build-up to a really bad pun. Cartoon chicken strolls to Oscars 2012-02-07T14:19:36Z The latest novel by acclaimed American writer Colson Whitehead , recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant and author of The Intuitionist, is called Zone One – and its telling, punning subtitle is "a zombie novel with brains". Zombie invasion 2012-08-13T16:21:23Z The sit is the family home, the com is based around misunderstandings, generational differences and puns. link text 2012-08-17T21:01:01Z First Time Living on Your Own, though, was a clever and delicious visual pun, a skillet of buttered, lemon-drizzled crepes sliced like fettuccine over star-anise cream. At U.P., Dominique Ansel Moves Beyond the Cronut 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z And I became, pardon the pun, a third wheel. Sometimes I Hate My Husband’s Peloton 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z On another it simply serves to – excuse the pun – draw you in. Drawing conclusions: the fine line between theatre and art 2011-02-16T17:28:53Z And as you walk in, you’re met with a pun: A tiled welcome mat that says, “Rye, hello there.” Review | On Rye review: Deli that doesn’t put you down for a nap 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z I didn’t devise a terrible pun, combined with a “Saved by the Bell” reference, for people to savor privately, like a bunch of addicts nursing painkillers. Dear serial tweet-favoriter: You are a coward 2014-05-08T15:30:00Z The epilogue of “But Beautiful” is an essay in which Dyer makes clear that free jazz altogether was already his bête noire—pun entirely intended. Coltrane’s Free Jazz Wasn’t Just “A Lot of Noise” 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z When a pun can work in multiple languages at multiple levels? 7 puns that make sense in more than one language 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z “Gosh. Crafting a joke is way harder than making puns,” noted one longtime Loser with hundreds of inks to his name … who didn’t get ink this week. Style Invitational Week 1373: Prime time for creative product reviews 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z At their first family dinner together, Louis and Emily make eyes at each other, signaling that they are, pardon the pun, smitten kittens. Benedict Cumberbatch charms as a cat-loving genius in Amazon's showy "Electrical Life of Louis Wain" 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z In “Waters Rising” — a marvelous punning title — Sheila Waters relates this critical period in her husband’s life from several perspectives. ‘Waters Rising’: A tale of the man who helped saved Florence’s cultural treasures 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Jesus agrees, but sadly Hoyt doesn't jump out of a corner to punch him in the face for that pun. "True Blood" 4x12: A sexy, bloody end to season four 2011-09-12T11:59:00Z But in the hands of a skilled practitioner of the punning craft – such as Milton Jones, deadpan Canadian Stewart Francis or the evergreen Tim Vine – it yields spectacularly funny results. This week's new live comedy 2013-04-06T05:00:17Z Satirical puns leap from the pages of this story about a young hero on the streets of Dickensian London. Dodger by Terry Pratchett - review 2013-02-08T12:00:00Z His books are crawling with wordplay: puns, mixed metaphors, neologisms, you name it. Whimsy and War: Boris Vian’s Two Minds 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The jokes played well in New York, but I don’t think our Swiss audience appreciated the puns. Neal Bledsoe on the love triangle of 'The Pride' and finding home onstage — and in downtown L.A. 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z In what turns out to be their final meeting, the detective duo drink beer beside the Cherwell at sunset, and Morse recites the AE Houseman poem that gives The Remorseful Day its characteristically punning title. From ER to The Sopranos: what were the most shocking TV deaths? 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Bubbles are bulles in French, and with mousse, for foam, we get a pun on “Bull Moose” in English. At just $12 a bottle, this three-star Italian rosé is your new summer sipper 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Oliver is not a fan of Harper’s due to his “pandering to Islamophobes,” his “terrible, terrible band” named after a “French pun,” and his willingness to take photos with the lead singer of Nickelback. Watch John Oliver Break Canadian Election Law 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Family drama and beer puns are sure to be on tap. What's new on Netflix in April, from "Kim's Convenience" to "#blackAF" 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Seshadri’s poems are testily smart, often funny, conceptually intricate and so chock-full of irony that it’s hard to avoid making a pun here involving magnets or multivitamins. A Poet Who Mesmerizes by Zigs and Zags, Hopping From Idea to Idea 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Many readers will know of Sonnet 145 in which Shakespeare seemingly makes a deliberate pun on the name Hathaway in his lines. In search of Shakespeare's ghosts 2011-07-14T07:42:46Z They also often gently pun the issues and methods of abstract painting. Alex Hay, Comeback Painter 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z "Sacro GRA", whose name is a pun on the ring road's name which evokes the Italian for Holy Grail - delves into the lives of a dozen characters. 'Poetic' Italian documentary takes top honor at Venice filmfest 2013-09-07T20:38:33Z Sure, there are some chopsticks wielded and puns deployed, but the other Vietnamese touches go far deeper on "Watchmen." In “Watchmen,” just as in real life, feelings about Vietnam remain uncertain 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Ellie finds a book of puns at a gas station and torments Joel with jokes like: “What did the mermaid wear to her math class? An algae bra.” ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Truck Stop 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z True, the second half is almost completely unnecessary, the English accents are laughable and the footwear puns are relentless. Review: Sweet 'Kinky Boots' an ode to love, shoes 2013-04-04T23:30:12Z I love a bad pun and a nonsense line about what’s “technically a ravioli.” Jonathan Van Ness, Ali Wong and John Hodgman Walk Into a Bar … 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z While the tone might occasionally tip too far toward puns and alliteration, it’s the authors’ friendly accessibility that makes these stories so memorable. A Parade of Francophiles, With Peter Mayle in the Lead 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z But our newspaper readers don’t seem to have that problem: They just say that puns are lame. A wonton abuse of power 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z I find it sickening, pun intended, that every single day disabled Americans' access to health care is under siege. "Don't hang out with mean people": One comic's mission to fight sexist, racist, and ableist trolls 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z She knows her way around a pun and hopes for a tall, outgoing guy who’ll indulge her crazy adventures and keep her from getting too introverted. Date Lab: He’s ‘Star Wars’ and she’s ‘Star Trek’ 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z It also punned on the French word "adieu", using it to mean "goodbye", "to God" and "oh God". France's Godard at 83 screens a 3D 'Adieu' at Cannes 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z The director Ciarán O’Reilly and Mr. Bean approach both the play and the part in a — excuse the pun — sober manner that underlines the material’s unsentimental perspective. Review: ‘Dublin Carol’ Gets Lost in Its Drink 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z In response to the prompt “I get along best with” on Hinge, one user writes that it’s people who “appreciate that puns are superior to sarcasm in the humor power rankings.” Analysis | So you want to date someone who’s sarcastic? How original. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z I find panto ingredients theatrically effective: drag, disrupted pop songs, cheeky puns, topical references. Silly Season: How British Pantomime Looks From Across the Pond 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z None of us had a joke or pun handy; we were silent and impressed. My Mademoiselle Summer 2013-07-19T20:55:07Z Big Juicy Melons, ripe with puns comparing produce to female anatomy. Women find sexism in male-dominated pinball — so they’ve started leagues of their own 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Next week: Pun and Ink, or Shaggy Pup Stories, our contest for mini-tales — just a few dozen words — that end in a pun on a phrase. Style Invitational Week 1103: Themes good to us — pair a TV show and a song 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Many of the commenters made jokes and puns about the dog’s misadventure. Viral TikTok showing a dog climb through a Starbucks window sparks debate 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z To compensate for this patchy bunch, here are 16 of our favourite celebrity memoir titles… The nation's favourite gardener dug up a prize pun. The best celebrity memoir titles 2012-10-06T23:05:59Z “Caught” was set in the art world; “The Headlands,” as the pun in its title suggests, in the even-narrower confines of the human imagination. Review: ‘The Headlands’ Nods to San Francisco Noir 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Another, relying on Vietnamese to make a pun, jokingly claims that the best type of girl is “hiền on the streets, điên in the sheets.” The Story of the Subtle Asian Traits Facebook Group 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z She wasn’t the only woman at this table, but she was the one who memorably bested the men — her pun on “horticulture” is by far the most quoted piece of Algonquin wordplay. Ten Women Whose Tongues and Pens Were as ‘Sharp’ as Knives 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z More than ever, he sounds like a prisoner to his own style, contorting his lyrics to fit around weak puns instead of transposing his words into music. Perspective | How to love that Black Thought freestyle and ‘mumble rap’ at the same time 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z But there are just enough flashes of self-awareness – like that conspicuously pricey sheen of power-pop gloss, and a just-emphasized-enough “turn up” pun – to suggest it’s maybe part joke. Review: Weezer Insists That Everything Will Be Alright in the End, and It Is 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night, Feb. 11: our Punku contest — haiku with puns. Style Invitational Week 1318: Love the tiny tail stain* — an anagram contest 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z In one sense, they’re visual puns on the tradition of “street photography.” Christian Marclay’s Sidewalk Animations 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z The romantic comedy "The Performers," about two guys who reconnect at the Adult Film Awards in Las Vegas, will open in November starring Winkler and Jackson, likely with plenty of sex puns. Big-name actors, writers take the stage for new Broadway season 2012-08-30T18:37:04Z “He had an unmatched sense of humor, with very funny puns and images,” said Alan Lareau, a professor of German at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, who has made a study of Weimar cabaret. Giving a Satirist of the Third Reich the Last Laugh 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Crosswords tug all sides of your mind, requiring you to dart from straightforward definitions to narrative logic to free association to bad dad puns, all in the same space. What Has One Eye and 1,200 Heads? An Old English Riddle, That’s What! 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The monologue leans heavily on innuendo and smutty puns. The Play Is Coming From Inside the House 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z The 400-meter dash is won by running madly, a Loser magnet by punning badly. Style Invitational: Heed! Indeed! 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z And in between them, Alexander Armstrong does puns. TV review: The X Factor; Epic Win 2011-08-21T20:29:01Z Sonnets, syllogisms, declensions, puns, quips and carefully constructed insults are fired off in a nonstop, ever-escalating battle of wits. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z “We’re referencing the way speech is used in that era, where you have puns and double meaning and repeated things.” Curses! And Why They Work So Well Onstage (Sometimes) 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z He created sentences that punned with double meanings, and arranged elaborate pranks for his sister and friends — these often involved water balloons. ‘Kadian Journal’: A father tries to survive the loss of his son, 14 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Her comedy leans on her nimble writing, which displays a range and density of spiky jokes — puns, metaphors, misdirection. Comedians Turn Their Attention to Abortion 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The film's title depends on an obvious pun but also on the name, poire prisonnière, given to such novelty liquors as are still produced in Alsace, parts of Switzerland and the Black Forest. Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011-01-01T00:05:49Z If only he would stop simply punning and start pushing himself. The Thinking Woman’s Runway 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The pun is intended: this is a history of the United States in a few dozen killings. ‘The Irishman’ Review: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, in a Somber Key 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z I’m saying direct things that are trying to bring the holes”—she realizes the pun she just made—“literally the holes together and making a more cohesive understanding of ourselves.” What Peaches Can Teach America Now 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Again, the poet takes advantage of the pun: "and dash I would, my friend,// if only…". Poem of the week: Going, Going... by Leah Fritz 2011-08-22T09:18:53Z “There’s no sarcasm or even puns in the Vietnamese language and traditional comedy is mostly slapstick. When I started it was 99 percent expats and travelers, but now there are Vietnamese people in the audience.” Ho Chi Minh City’s Hilarious Side 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z It’s a matrix — no pun intended — of ‘Pilgrim’s Progress.’ ‘Cloud Atlas,’ as Rendered by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis 2012-10-09T23:05:27Z Holding the Man is similarly full of the "colour and flavour" of Australia – from the play's title, which puns on a term from Australian football, to its references to "chooks" and "servos" . Jane Turner: 'It's a love story ? with no kangaroos' 2010-05-02T21:00:00Z There are plenty of terrible puns and pratfalls too, and a genuine affection for the music hall and variety tradition that has all but disappeared from modern theatre. Me and My Girl ? review 2010-12-21T21:29:00Z “The pun is a low sense of humor,” the psychiatrist explains, helpfully. When therapists also need therapists: 'Suffering is not unique to one group' 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z “Revolution for Dummies” is a smart, refreshing and hilariously funny account of Youssef’s story. It is filled with self-mockery, puns and funny asides. “Stupid is stupid no matter what country you’re from”: What Bassem Youssef’s story of Egypt can teach Americans 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Best line: Dialogue is now part of the “Cats” universe, but there’s nary a zinger to be found, unless you count some rather obvious cat puns. ‘Cats’: Did You See the Movie? Let’s Talk 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z Ted came to England as a broken man with a gentle smile on his face, a head full of homespun similes, cornpone puns and a heart bursting with Midwestern niceness. Time to move on from the "Ted Lasso" way after a bloated season 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z His go-to jokes usually involve making puns on his company's name. Review: Spurlock starts an original series on Hulu 2011-08-17T04:11:08Z Surely also the model for Harry Enfield's Mr Cholmondley-Warner, he may not be familiar by name, but the voice is instantly evocative: the clipped precision, the jauntiness, the terrible puns. Mirror to the Soul: from Barbados to Basing Street 2013-04-19T06:00:12Z “Seshadri’s poems are testily smart, often funny, conceptually intricate and so chock-full of irony that it’s hard to avoid making a pun here involving magnets or multivitamins,” David Orr writes in his review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Berkowitz discovers that they are comedians and coders, actors and slam poets, mathematicians and “unattached English majors” for whom a bad pun “isn’t the party foul it might be elsewhere.” A great pun is its own reword 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Just as the pun is the lowest form of humor, so is the list the lowest form of literary comment. Literary pissing match, bloggers vs. distinguished critic edition: The absurdity of these dumb “my ‘great books’ list is better than yours” debates 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z So the idea of being a small "mom and pop" operation and starting from humble roots — pardon the pun — is just not feasible in many places. From skydiving planes to DEA moles, "The Syndicate" explores the fall of a marijuana-smuggling ring 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Maybe it's because his love not just of puns but all kinds of ludicrously contrived wordplay means that he fits neatly with a tradition of humour that's always been popular over here. If you enjoyed those Peter Kay one-liners, they were probably written by Emo Philips 2010-07-09T23:14:00Z “I did a lot of exploring, no pun intended. The plants, the animals, the insects . . . it’s like, where did these come from, how did they end up here? It’s crazy,” she said. ‘Dora’ fan Isabela Moner didn’t leap at first to play the explorer as a teen 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Loos was evidently proposing a gargantuan visual pun — instead of a newspaper containing a column, a column is containing a newspaper! Gene Weingarten’s most pathetic career moment? This column idea. 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z This is the artist’s homage to the communal and cultural importance of cooking, and a pun of sorts. Monuments That Celebrate Communal Struggles, Not Flawed Men 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z To the aging indie-rock intelligentsia, Malkmus, 51, is a legend, his catalogue packed with enough cheeky puns to power a Pitchfork alumni cruise. Stephen Malkmus had his groove denied. He was upset for about five minutes. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z The story hinges on a sound pun: Bayreuth, the town in Bavaria, where an annual Wagner opera festival is held, and Buy-Rite, a very American establishment. This Week in Fiction: Thomas McGuane 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z One gets the sense that there are, pardon the pun, too many cooks. "The Ringmaster": When a documentary about the world's best onion rings serves up a sobering twist 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Let's have a lot fewer puns and a lot more serious financial analysis please. The Apprentice 2013 episode six: live blog 2013-06-05T19:45:30Z Graphic puns, and references to a “lioness on the cheese grater” sexual position, are voiced. In this ‘Lysistrata,’ sex and war don’t mix 2013-07-25T22:40:24Z Their 102 posts are a sustained performance worthy of Saul Steinberg; even the puns have puns. An Exhibition Worth Thousands of Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z “But after she left, it just wasn’t — sorry, for the pun — on the table anymore,” she said. Who gets the recipes in the divorce? What to do when serious relationships that involve cooking end 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Politics, Puns and Moisturizer Bliss, the irreverent spa and beauty brand, is taking fun with puns to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. On the Runway Blog: Bliss Plans to Have Fun at the Political Conventions 2012-08-20T18:01:49Z “I don’t think data breach is funny,” she tweeted after the company’s Twitter account tried to laugh off the situation with a misguided pun. Watch Iggy Azalea's Impression of the Pizza Delivery Boy Who Wronged Her 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z You won't be groaning at any of Jones's puns; instead, you'll marvel at the lateral leaps that his agile mind is capable of. This week's new live comedy 2013-01-19T06:00:02Z Week 1422 was essentially an APB for book, movie and song puns; the contest asked for them to be “collaborations” resulting in the tweaked name. Style Invitational Week 1426: Mess with our heads 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Is “pour” to be taken as a pun on “poor” to elicit sympathy? Review: Eric Yves Garcia’s ‘Pour Spirits,’ a Taste of Musical Role-Playing 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z That pun, in addition to the vibrant colors and beautifully executed drawing, is what drew the judges to Kylie’s work. Summer Book Club: 'Out of This World' It’s not just the corny jokes and goofy puns, either, although those are plenty bad. Eminem is back with “Kamikaze,” a surprise album for his day-one fans 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z It was only natural — no pun intended — for me to write about what I saw every day and to build metaphors using my surroundings. Perspective | Mary Oliver did something rare: She made poetry accessible. That’s not a bad thing. 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z With every viewing I seem to find a new sight gag, a pun or a clever line reading that I hadn’t picked up on before. ‘Yellow Submarine’ & Me 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Or maybe pun intended He felt perfect for the themes of the show and what we’re going for with Elliot this season. Sam Esmail on ‘Mr. Robot,’ His Special Guest Star and That Opening Segment 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Gertrude Stein’s cut-and-paste approach to language is an obvious influence, jazzed up by Johnson’s penchant, verging on compulsion, for associative wordplay and puns. ‘Not Nothing’ Tries to Capture the Artist Ray Johnson 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z To borrow that transformative pun from George Barker's little masterpiece, "To My Mother" they "move from mourning into morning." Poem of the week: A Mind of Winter by Martha Kapos 2010-09-20T09:21:00Z In his early comedy he was interested in puns and then went through an improvisational stage, but his work would become marked by meta-humor, fierce intelligence and sensitivity to language. Exploring That Old Knee-Slapper, Suicide 2011-01-06T22:13:28Z The shop’s drawings, filled with nostalgic references or, in the words of the manager, J. R. Thomason, “bad puns, like ‘game of Rhones,’ ” which he said are meant to “endear the shop to the neighborhood.” Sidewalk Blackboards Offer a Little Chalk ’n’ Chew 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Here they are, from among 2,000 entries: puns on top of puns. Style Invitational Week 1230: What in creation? Give us some divine plans. 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z She had an ironic and sometimes ribald wit, engaging in puns and wordplay. Marilyn Monroe: proto-feminist? 2012-07-21T21:05:42Z “True or false: a pun is the lowest form of humor,” Goldblum ribbed back without taking a pause. Jeff Goldblum’s a movie star, jazz pianist and an inescapable meme. What’s behind his enduring appeal? 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Though the film was marketed as a children’s musical, “the jokes and puns are fairly distributed among age levels,” the Times critic Renata Adler wrote. What’s on TV This Week: The Olympics and the Jonas Brothers 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z "There are a lot of things to crow about here, no pun intended," Dergarabedian said. `Iron Man 2' stays atop box office with $53M 2010-05-16T20:01:00Z Huff's work has both a punning and political edge. Boxers, weathered heads, politics ? all in ceramics at IMA Gallery 2012-03-22T20:12:04Z Approximately 1,600 groaner puns later, the Empress cuts the ribbon on the following joint ventures. Style Invitational: Who’s kidding whom? Give any two people a child 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z The essay, Roussel’s only autobiographical statement, provides a key of sorts to his fabulous creations, particularly the revelation that many were inspired by puns and word games, distortions of language that prompted unexpected ideas. How Raymond Roussel Put the Impossible on the Page 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z These visual puns continue throughout Picasso’s career, and they are particularly amusing when they reconfigure an easily recognizable object from the everyday world. In a MOMA retrospective, Picasso’s sculpture is still full of surprises 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z “Our naming philosophy was that it was either a pun or a regular word with an exclamation point,” Mr. Soma said. Brooklyn Brainery Offers Popular Courses 2012-04-04T21:47:16Z Often, the group plays with transliteration and puns, freely combining languages including Georgian, Persian, Arabic, Polish and Russian. These Artists Bring Pickles to the Party 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z “Marc is very hands-on,” said the manicurist Elisa Ferri, pun unintended. | Marc Jacobs 2011-02-15T03:59:42Z The “Seeing Blind Medley,” featuring Christopher Hanke, was the evening’s comic epiphany, the title “Suddenly Seymour,” from “Little Shop Horrors,” broken into the pun “see more.” Review: The Skivvies Rock Their Socks Off (and Other Clothes, Too) 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z The dining area was designed to evoke an abstract forest, with a chandelier of birches and grass panels on the walls, sprouting puns like “You make miso happy.” A Menu That Defies Tidy Categorization at Ok Lah! 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z “Admissions,” as that pun of a title suggests, is a kind of confessional, except that no forgiveness is offered, or deserved. Review: Skewering White Pieties About Diversity in ‘Admissions’ 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Upon receiving his anniversary gift, Meehan liked it so much that he asked Kohl to produce twenty cutouts of script puns. A Thousand Cuts 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Behind Door No. 3 is a miniature pyramid, inspiring this immortal pun from the Genie: “Now you and King Tut will finally have something in Tutankhamen!” Theater Review: ‘Aladdin’ Tweaks the Disney Formula With Breezy Insouciance 2014-03-21T02:00:01Z "Mostly, 'Addams' Just Festers," said the New York Daily News, punning on the name of Uncle Fester, one of the family's oddball members. "The Addams Family" musical disappoints on Broadway 2010-04-09T17:07:00Z Dense with puns, discursive musings and conceptual jokes, his act moves like a one-man screwball comedy in which his silly and brainy sides bicker. Patton Oswalt, Morgan Murphy and Others Have Comedy Specials 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z One participant stated that teaching was her "heartwork," a pun on “hard work,” as she described how she felt while doing her dream job. Heartbreak becomes burnout for teachers when work is turbulent 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z And at that moment, if you will forgive the pun, the penny dropped. If you have lofty ambitions for your legacy, head for the attic 2011-01-09T00:05:39Z You don’t need to see the first “Nut Job” movie to follow the sequel’s nonsensical plot and the script’s preference for bottom-shelf puns. Review: ‘The Nut Job 2’ Squirrels Away the Laughs for Itself 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Famously, the ingenuity of the English language and our fondness for puns has since been shown at its finest by slogans on everything everywhere including a provocative position at the top of women's stockings. Keep Calm and Carry On trademark battle enters new year 2013-01-02T19:53:35Z And, fueled by a huge vocabulary, his penchant for puns was puckish. Frank W. Lewis, Master of the Cryptic Crossword, Dies at 98 2010-12-03T06:30:00Z Evidence can unmask ignorance; analysis can debunk deception; and sometimes a pun or a snort can kick a candidate or a correspondent in the kishkes. Jon Stewart doesn’t give a damn anymore: Why the “Daily Show” host has never been more watchable 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Mimi lives in Dallas, Texas, and likes to wear T-shirts with silly puns on them. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘A Thousand Questions’ by Saadia Faruqi 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z The grandfoal contest is always more challenging than the first round because the names are already full of puns, and often not very “name”-like. Style Invitational Week 1178: A ___ of collective nouns 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Here, his punning sense of humor emerges yet again: He depicts Chinese and Aboriginal delegates engaged in “cordial” relations — by drinking cordial together. Two Artists, Continents Apart, and a Shared Language of Struggle 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z If you're black in America, you know the darker sides, no pun intended. Walter Mosley on the fantasy of Whiteness and how Dubya was worse than Trump 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z And in a show called “Women of Will,” which makes a point of the puns within its last word, it isn’t a good idea to end so many sentences with “if you will.” | 'Women of Will': Tamed or Tragic: Tina Packer?s Tour of Shakespeare?s Women 2010-06-24T21:25:00Z The idea is that it will also learn to understand tricksy human traits such as irony, jokes and puns. Meet Watson, the computer set to beat Jeopardy's champions 2011-02-06T00:05:33Z Hanging on a wall nearby, relatively unloved, were the “athletic fit” T-shirts, cut for the husky, who apparently don’t like puns and are crazy for homespun-looking appliqué. 2010-02-04T01:59:00Z More recently, with “Continuity,” she set out to layer incompatible genres — a Hollywood backstager and an eco-sermon — on the back of the title pun. Review: In ‘Make Believe,’ Four Children Meet Their Inner Adults 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Rufus Wainwright’s “Art Teacher” becomes a pithy short story revolving around a pun on the name of the English painter J. M. W. Turner. Music Review: Baby Jane Dexter at the Metropolitan Room 2012-11-25T23:01:54Z There is that title for a start; an off-putting pun that instantly sets the comedy bar below ground level. Terrible name, terrific sitcom: how Schitt's Creek became a surprise hit 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z To Shakespeare’s puns and innuendoes about the fruit of the medlar tree Mr. O’Neill appends a long, outlandishly coarse pantomime that would merit an NC-17 rating on film. Theater Review: Love?s Flames Amid a City in Flames 2011-07-12T21:27:37Z Twitter users, meanwhile, did not seem concerned about the traffic but instead offered their best jokes and puns about the situation. Grapefruit spill on Florida freeway temporarily stops traffic, Twitter responds with jokes 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Other plot points have a similarly calculated feel, as though Sunshine was checking remunerative musical-theater devices off a list as she wedged them into her pun- and expletive-laced book. Rostand gets the mob treatment in 'Serrano the Musical' 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Jokes and puns, techno-slang and snarky asides crowd the page in an excess of wit that undermines, at times, the dramatic impact of the scene. ‘The Magician’s Land,’ the final volume of Lev Grossman’s Magicians Trilogy Although the charm of this show is in its kooky fashion, excessive pun work, aspirational fruit salad brunches and afternoon Manhattans, there are numerous issues that crop up, puncturing its decadent veneer. Seinfeld and Simpsons – why your favourite TV show is problematic 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Ceramics deserve more orderly and respectful attention than this jam-packed show and its punning title provide. Art in Review: ?PAUL CLAY? 2011-06-30T21:22:45Z Retouching by pen, he tightened the phrasing and also inserted an inspired pun: “The sensation chills him, above and beyond the terminal air-conditioning.” John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z The author subtly drops in the occasional hilarious remark and the use of puns and satire is well done. Dodger by Terry Pratchett - review 2013-02-08T12:00:00Z Ms. Brown, however, insists that the images are essentially playful puns, offering “heavy subject matter dealt with,” she said, “with a very light touch.” At These Exhibitions, Death Is a Lively Subject 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Come for the satisfying pun in the title, stay for the deeply researched chronicles of all kinds of cults. 6 Podcasts About Cults and Their Enduring Sinister Attraction 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The spelling of "wile" as a verb meaning "to magic," is surprising and produces a neat, unostentatious pun with the implicit "while." Poem of the week: The Shortness of Life by Francis Quarles 2013-01-07T10:21:04Z Often, Mr. Scott’s sartorial puns serve as cover for a stiletto-sharp jab of cultural commentary, but this time they seemed less wink-wink than irrelevant. Everything Looks Different Now 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Infused with puns that the label decodes, it is also one of the show’s many amusing reminders that Buddhist practice isn’t the beatific experience people like to believe. ‘Unexpected Smiles: Seven Types of Humor in Japanese Paintings’ Review: Elegance That Encourages Laughter 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z I would describe the charts as visually dry, although the pun threatens to distract from the seriousness of the task. Meditations on southern California's water lifeline 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z “And the pun was already in his name.” Advertising: WQXR Calls on Beethoven to Help Lift Its Profile 2011-10-30T22:35:31Z “Idioms, puns, nuances, inferences, metaphors, allusions and sarcasm are lost” on children with autism, Nothbohm writes. 7 Things Every Kid with Autism Wishes You Knew 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In a review in The New York Times, Dwight Garner wrote that “Croft’s sensitive translation is in tune with the author’s many registers; she even makes the puns click.” Shining a Spotlight on the Art of Translation 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Assiduously edited by the independent curator Adrian Sudhalter, it features a full reconstruction of this magazine that never was, full of puns, poems and Duchamp’s chess notations, assembled with diligence and guesswork over 160 pages. A Plan to Spread Dada Worldwide, Revisited at MoMA 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Poo looks great but deserves a better song and fewer awkward puns. ‘Emojiland’ Review: There’s a Rom-Com in Your Phone. With Music. 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z The scripted jokes were terrible, and the panel took to high-fiving each other after every impromptu pun. TV review: The Hollow Crown: Richard II; Derek Jacobi on Richard II; Mad Mad World 2012-07-01T20:00:01Z Very good jokes, less good jokes, clever jokes, stupid jokes, visual jokes, knowing jokes, new jokes, old jokes, surreal jokes, puns, nods, winks. TV review: Bad Sugar; A Touch Of Cloth; C4's 30 Greatest Comedy Shows; Murder: Joint Enterprise 2012-08-26T22:00:01Z But that changed with the release a year ago next month of “El Hielo,” whose title contains a pun. La Santa Cecilia, a Band With a Message 2014-03-04T22:35:26Z But there is no denying that, despite its obligatory quota of Bennettian puns and quips, “Allelujah!” is the most openly angry play of this master satirist’s career. Review: Song Trumps Senility in the Angry ‘Allelujah!’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Hoping to nurture Ellie’s cheerier mood, Joel asks her to break out some puns. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1 Finale: A Deadly Operation 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z But it continually surprises me how this show grows and is put together and the execution of it — no pun intended. The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus Says Season 7 Will Make the World 'Explode' 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z “Puppet Slams” are an actual thing, Davis said, not a pun on poetry slams. A surprise after the final performance of ‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’ at Round House This premise is about as intriguing as the premise of "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," except without the cool outfits, cheesy puns and groovy dance sequences. How can the "Lost" finale not suck? 2010-05-21T20:42:00Z And man, oh man, unfortunately he was, pardon the pun—dead on with that one. Hank Azaria: "For Mets fans, the bad news is there's no games. The good news is there's no games" 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Worst Pun: Can a really bad pun be a dealbreaker in a relationship? The Bachelor Watch: Do You Belize in Love? 2012-02-14T14:15:36Z Did you have to hold yourself back on puns or was it anything goes? "There's serious athleticism" to being a professional mermaid 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z I would park myself, no pun intended, at the front entrance of Hotel Nacional de Cuba, which is the fanciest hotel, I believe, in Havana. Ray Magliozzi of ‘Car Talk’ Takes to the Road in Cuba 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Schickele works on many levels of humor beyond the physical, from groan- or hiss-inducing puns to highly sophisticated musical jokes, and it was all hilarious, as expected. Review: Bach at St. Paul’s, and the Fictional Relative, P.D.Q., at Town Hall 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The pun in the brisk, low-concept “Hat Trick,” in which the flamboyantly silly comic wears a backward cap while performing in three different rooms of the Comedy Store in Hollywood, is its only effortful part. 5 Smart Comedy Specials From Veteran Standups 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z “There is no question the Play Doh pun is intentional,” said Mr. Potts. Palmyra, Plato and Play Doh: Getty Plans New Shows for Renovated Villa 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z But, pardon the pun, things are looking up. Solving the 6 Biggest Mysteries of This Broadway Season 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z And yes, this whole article was a result of me not wanting to waste the tortured pun/link-bait title once I'd thought of it. 50 Shades of Grey matter: the psychology of sexual arousal 2012-08-08T12:01:00Z Representatives for the haunted house occasionally share pictures and playful puns inspired by aghast tourists to Twitter, in a series of must-see pictures. Halloween haunted house releases pictures of terrified visitors 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Harry’s traumatic past persecution by his neighborhood hounds of hell unleashes a pack of pooch puns, and fur-ther heightens his resentment of crusading Annabel, who in turn snarls her contempt. The humor is deadpan, or just dead, in 'Lucky Stiff' 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z TV’s most openly zany series, this cop show refused to edit out a single loopy pun, or to attempt a goal so insignificant as making basic sense. Here Are the Best TV Shows of 2016 So Far 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Mantel is not above constructing a story around a punch line, a pun, an O. Henry twist. Hilary Mantel's short-story collection long on controversy 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Reacher is hard to reach, if you'll pardon the pun, but he knows to show up anyway when he hears about the crime just `cause he's one of those stay-one-step-ahead kind of guys. Review: Cruise oozes low-key charisma as `Reacher' 2012-12-18T22:47:11Z “In a few years, this book will be dated, and all of my puns with it,” he said. This ‘burger pervert’ turned a fetish into a following. Now, can he make it last? 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z However, the report comes via the National Enquirer and we're not totally convinced if has any legs — pun very much intended. John Mayer praises ex Taylor Swift's Spotify stance. Now, about her leg insurance policy... 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The red grape of the region, malbec, is also known as côt, hence the pun on the label. 20 Under $20: Wines That Feed the Soul 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Set during a distant Dark Age long after our current civilization has given itself to the fire, the entire narrative is rendered in a hyper-phonetic, punning version of devolved English. Classic dystopian novels forecast a bleak future — soon 2014-03-28T20:10:55Z Apologies for the pun in advance, but this just sounds delicious. 'Kings of Pastry' is a tasty Tuesday TV pick 2011-06-20T20:35:04Z I am a fan of a well-considered pun, and Angela naming her bakery Milk & Hanoi is such a clever Vietnamese play on “the land of milk and honey,” aka the Promised Land. In “Watchmen,” just as in real life, feelings about Vietnam remain uncertain 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Such feats were born, he explained in interviews and in his many books, of a system of learned associations — call them surrealist visual puns — that seemed equal parts Ivan Pavlov and Salvador Dalí. Harry Lorayne, Dazzling Master of Total Recall, Is Dead at 96 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Low point The Knight Bus sequence, in which a shrunken head spouts puns that wouldn't get past the first script revision of Shrek Forever After. The great Harry Potter viewing marathon 2011-07-08T23:11:05Z It’s highly unlikely that Kylie Jenner launched an entire cosmetics empire for the sole purpose of, one day, using a silly pun to market it. Kylie Jenner announces 'Kybrow' eyebrow cosmetics collection 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z But he knew what he was doing, and the libretto is full of puns about being "in" or "penetrating" the hill of Venus that were not lost on its first admirers. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z It’s easy to see why he’s so popular: Cumming is delightful company, urbane, self-deprecating and mischievously funny, not above a dishy anecdote or a throwaway dirty pun. Alan Cumming Took Ecstasy to Quell His Nerves on Tony Night, ‘and It Worked’ 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z “The idea was to see if you could find it. Not everyone could, which added to the pun.” The pleasure revolution: the sex women really want 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Periodically, no pun intended, publishers release a bunch of books about working for what were long ago called “the slicks.” The Magazine Business, From the Coolest Place to the Coldest One 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The textiles showed tools and products like printing presses, ships and boots, and were inscribed with punning slogans. Antiques: Jimi Hendrix?s Death Is Recalled at Museums 2010-08-19T21:44:00Z There are parodies, such as the BBC Two sitcom “Upstart Crow,” which imagines Shakespeare as a hapless Stratford dad with a daughter who rolls her eyes at his puns. A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Or at least they do until the corn, like some of those puns, starts dying. Review: In ‘Shucked,’ a Glut of Gleeful Puns and ‘Cornography’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z By all means, grill your fellow contributors, but no going off half-baked, no salty language and, of course, no cheesy puns. How to eat: macaroni cheese 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Now that we have images, audio and video, successful jokes and puns are even briefer, a feature that Martin Trickey looked for as one of the BBC's comedy commissioners for multi-platform. What effect has the internet had on comedy? 2011-04-02T23:07:08Z Ben Elton found his voice precociously early: it's one-liners, puns, innuendo. Do comedians lose their edge as they get older? 2013-04-27T16:59:01Z But the skippers and their spiels — corny jokes and bad puns, the cringier the better — have been the real stars of the Jungle Cruise attraction since the first one opened at Disneyland in 1955. No Lion, the Skipper Is the Real King of the Jungle Cruise 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z "To be in possession of a pun or a good conundrum, particularly one people hadn't heard, that's a good bit of conversational ammunition you can bring to a dinner party," he says. 30 delightful puns from the Victorian Era 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Some of it is in the original Shakespearean English, but there’s also no shortage of dirty puns or current event references, keeping the performance engaging whether or not you’ve experienced a play since high school. Things to do in New York: Shakespeare (Drunk or in the Park) 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z This is, forgive the terrible pun, a classic "don't hate the player, hate the game" situation. Wordle was fun while it lasted 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z I took it for a pun on it's last appearance in the "Untouchables". Review: In an Obama Biopic, the Audacity of Hagiography? 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z But I’d watch the whole passage again just for the hilarious pun on the word “womb.” Review: ‘Smokefall,’ About Several Generations of an Eccentric Family 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z His wordplay’s precocious, His puns are ferocious; We’re braced for the day he’s full groan. Style Invitational Week 1348: Same Difference 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z This being Britain, puns and humor play a part. Conceptual Art’s Long Shadow 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The plotting is gleefully bad, the puns worse. Theater Review: ‘The Mystery of Irma Vep’ Plays the Lucille Lortel Theater 2014-04-18T02:00:01Z “They get on really well and are genuinely good friends, pardon the pun,” he said at the time. Courteney Cox and Snow Patrol's Johnny McDaid are engaged 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Since it was on broadcast TV, there’s thankfully way less obvious robo-sex talk, though the pun quotient goes up by the power of 20. Rewatching robo-sex: what can be learned from previous Westworlds 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z There isn't a passage here that doesn't sparkle with some well-phrased perception, neatly overturned cliché or freshly minted pun. Book reviews roundup 2011-01-22T00:06:24Z |
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