humor

He moved seamlessly from absurdist humor to self-aware satire, poking fun at fame, fandom and politics without ever losing his ease.

Laughton plays Maigret with dry humor, though he’s capable of being roused when exasperated or angry, as he often will be here.

But Goodall herself, like many scientists, was a “Far Side” fan and responded with good humor: “Wow! Fantastic! Real fame at last! Fancy being in a Gary Larson cartoon!”

Inflammatory rhetoric, and even the incitement and praise of violence, is simply laughed off under the auspices of humor and pushed aside by a brief or private apology.

Winning them over with humor helped him with “honing my bravery on stage.”