hilariousness

“They want to see what’s going on out there in all its absurdity or its hilariousness or its scariness. They want to watch something real, and not fake.”

Dear Carolyn: So someone sent our son a pretty awful book through an online retailer — I'm guessing another teen because it relies on gross-out humor and the f-word for its hilariousness — and while we are not prudes, this is just . . . terrible.

And now the wine was pushed about; and whether it was the little "tiff" which had taken place during the dinner, or whatever might be the cause, considerable difficulty was felt, for some time, by all the company, in attaining that sense of freedom, that warm hilariousness, which an Englishman always looks for, over the bottle, and by the charm of which, and not by the animal gust for the liquor, drinking usages have become so widely established.

It recognizes that it’s not, in fact, essentially weird or hilarious that a man should rather spend all day with his baby than in a law office, even if, sometimes, our expectations of him can lead to weirdness or hilariousness.

"I think comedy can usefully be used as part of the scrutiny of our political system and not just to do jokes about the physical hilariousness of some politicians," he says.