Saturday, October 30, 2010

'An American in Paris' and 'Funny Face' - Two Influential Three-Act Musicals


American in Paris featured a Black and White Ball as a turning point in its final act, which became a popular theme for balls and fundraisers. The San Francisco Symphony held its first Black and White Ball in 1956, which continues as the premier annual ball today. In New York, after the 1958 release of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Audrey Hepburn, Capote held his own famed Black and White bash at The Plaza, which was chronicled in Deborah Davis's 2006 volume Party of the Century.

And Funny Face influenced America's most influential First Lady, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Four years after the film's release, Jackie's first official trip to Paris embodied the apotheosis that Audrey Hepburn underwent in Funny Face after her earlier persona is vividly remade. Dressed in a luscious red Givenchy gown, Hepburn emerges into an all white scene at the Louvre from behind Winged Victory; her arms raise the gown material around her like exotic butterfly wings.

Like Audrey's character, Jackie had also been a bookish intellectual at the Sorbonne in Paris prior to her 1952 Newport wedding to then Senator Jack Kennedy. Like Audrey Hepburn, Jackie was also born in 1929 and 5'7 ½" tall and slim, multi-lingual, artistic and athletic, soft spoken, and also a client of Audrey Hepburn's life-long friend and collaborator, couturier Hubert d'Givenchy. Jackie refined many of their ideas, and her own, under the tutelage of her mentor and friend, Vogue editor, Diana Vreeland, who later ran MOMA's Costume Institute at Jackie's behest. Vreeland was portrayed in Funny Face as the character Maggie Preston, editor of Quality Magazine, played by Kay Thompson who was best known as the author of the Eloise series about a girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel. While a college student, Jackie Kennedy won Vogue's Prix d'Paris competition for organizing an entire magazine edition. In her submittal she imagined herself as "art director of the world." Which in a manner she became as Camelot's Queen.

Jackie was beloved in France, the world's capital for style. Two million French citizens crowded the streets waving American flags, screaming, "Viva Jacqui!" during the Kennedy's official 1961 State visit there. The usually reserved President de Gaulle, the French press, and public were especially rhapsodic over Jackie's televised interviews given in flawless French. Funny Face expressed what Jackie was by nature. And, Jackie's favored ceremonial color, white, chosen for her ethereal Inaugural gown, closed both American in Paris and Funny Face with the female leads dressed in white tulle gowns waltzing off in the arms of their prince, with Hepburn wearing the chicest wedding dress ever designed.

Art, Music, Dancing, Awards:

American in Paris and Funny Face both utilized eye-popping cinematography, vivid set and art design and featured Gershwin songbooks. The male and female leads in each film began their careers first in dancing, rather than singing or acting. At 39-years old, Gene Kelly, requested 19-year old dancer Leslie Caron for her debut film as his love interest in American in Paris. And 57-year old Fred Astaire partnered with then 27-year old Audrey Hepburn as her condition for accepting the role. Audrey had studied dance throughout childhood, holding fervently to dreams of a ballet career. After WWII when she and her mother fled Holland for London, it was a small dancing role there that won her a screen test for Willy Wilder's Roman Holiday with Gregory Peck. Hepburn won the Best Actress Oscar for Roman Holiday in 1953, four years before she filmed Funny Face, and the same year she won a Tony for the title role of Gigi on Broadway, also after being spied by accident; this time crossing a hotel lobby in the south of France. Author, Collette, honed-in on Hepburn and cried out, "There's my Gigi! As Willy Wilder said about Audrey Hepburn, "God kissed her on the cheek and there she was."

Funny Face won an Oscar for Best Art Direction, Cinematography, Costumes by Givenchy, and Original Screenplay by Alan Lerner (who often teamed with long-term collaborator Frederick Lowe to write hits like Gigi, My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, and Camelot, which of course became synonymous with the Kennedy Administration.) Plus a Director's Guild Award for outstanding directorial achievement by Stanley Donen, also a choreographer (and who later directed Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain, and Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant together in Charade, about which Donen said there was never a more enchanting couple in film history.) Funny Face also won a Palme D'Or at Cannes. And a Laurel Award from the Writer's Guild of America for Best Written American Musical.

American in Paris was nominated for eight Oscars and received six, including Academy Awards and Golden Globes for Best Picture and Best Director; a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Gene Kelly. In addition, Kelly received his only Oscar, as an honorary award that year for "versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography." The film also received Oscars for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Musical Score, Best Writing, Scoring and Screenplay, and Best Editing,

American in Paris' 18-minute phantasmagoria at the end cost half-a-million to produce, making it one of the longest and most expensive dance pieces in film history. Producer Arthur Freed was MGM's famed czar of musicals and lured then Broadway genius Vincent Minnelli to direct some of the greatest films of the 20th Century, including American in Paris where so many scenes echo with Minnelli's stagecraft, as do others like his Meet Me in St. Louis, Kismet, Brigadoon, and Gigi.

The tonal differences in the two films is that Funny Face is the wittier, more sophisticated film, with a more absorbing plot that holds up with repeated viewings. Astaire and Hepburn were much more elegant, deft and subtle. Gene Kelly himself said that Astaire was the more aristocratic dancer and that his own dancing reflected his background in athletics and gymnastics, plus his everyman Pal Joey persona . He termed Astaire the Cary Grant of dance, to his Marlon Brando. Kelly aimed for a distinct American look. Astaire, and Hepburn were European at heart. Ironically, Leslie Caron, while being French herself, very much echoes Kelly's exuberantly American style.

The costumes in Funny Face were hands down superior. Audrey Hepburn's iconic image remains undated fifty years later. In fact, director Stanley Donen said that Audrey Hepburn was much more about fashion than acting or dancing. One of Audrey's rare disagreements with any director occurred when Donen insisted she wear white socks along with the skin tight black slacks and sweater in her solo dance number in the Paris beatnik club. She was reduced to tears from fear the white socks would "break the line." Hepburn spoke of the importance of the silhouette and that clothes should be a sleeked down vase that contains the flower. The idea of the white socks she thought was ruinous, though later, she admitted it had worked.

At MGM Arthur Freed acquired the American in Paris title from Ira Gershwin. It was from one of three of George Gershwin's symphonies, (the other two were Porgy and Bess, and Rhapsody in Blue) and became the title song. Tragically, the prolific musical genius George died much too young in 1937 at age 38 following surgery for a brain tumor to see one of his symphonies made into a major film.

Funny Face's Marketing Snafu

Hepburn had just completed King Vidor's War and Peace (1956) and wanted something light like Roman Holiday (1953) or Sabrina (1954.) She was in Paris when she first received the Funny Face script. Her first husband, Mel Ferrer said that she generally took three days to decide, but read and accepted Donen's project, which was originally named Wedding Day, in just two hours. Her mother said Funny Face was "Audrey, all the way through," while Musical Film Magazine called Funny Face the most "directorially ravishing of all American films," and Rex Reed said it was the "Best fashion show ever recorded on film." But the marketing posters fail to project any of that.

American in Paris had superior film posters. Funny Face posters failed in two ways. First, they were varied and therefore never cemented one single strong 'brand' in the public's mind that conveyed the memorable story in a glance. Second, it was a marvelously colorful film yet most of the poster images were muddied. It was Audrey Hepburn's first American film not to gross in the top ten of films in the year of its release. For many film fans her titles: Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Breakfast at Tiffany's, conjure distinct images, while Funny Face does not.

For me, An American in Paris relies on flamboyance, and seems larger because of its theatricality, though Funny Face is only ten minutes shorter and beautifully cohesive. And while the budgets for both films were similar, many scenes in American in Paris were shot on stage sets. Funny Face, filmed mostly on location, sustains an authenticity that makes watching it a pleasure, again and again.

I cannot watch the metamorphosis of Hepburn's character without recalling that this was the little girl in Nazi occupied Holland who saw her family broken apart, her lovely home ruined, her uncles taken out and shot, who was starved and existed on flower bulbs. She'd been grabbed by a machine-gun toting guard and put on line for a bus bound to a work camp, and fortunately broke away. As a child she aided the WWII Dutch resistance, grew to become a great humanitarian, an Ambassador for UNICEF, and my favorite actress.

A fighter strips down to the barest essentials, the essence. Audrey Hepburn's childhood was a fight to survive the horrors of war. As Hubert d' Givenchy said, she became a "very precise person," and this shows in her acting that always conveys the essence.

For me, Funny Face personifies charm, magic, beauty and the idea that when we open our eyes to eternal things everything changes.

I find ultimate value in what takes me to the lovely places. Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face. One of my all-time favorite films. And that's a wrap.








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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Stand Out From the Crowd With Funny T-Shirts


Why buy t-shirts at the mall when all of those shirts look exactly identical? Nowadays, there are a lot of stores selling t-shirts. One very great option is buying a funny t-shirt that makes a statement. You can choose a lot of funny t-shirts online.

With a funny t-shirt you can show the world your funny side. You can even make another person smile just by looking at the funny t-shirt you're wearing. Wearing a funny t-shirt can make you feel good too. It can even help other people feel good like you. Now that's a bonus because you can share humor and happiness so easily. You can also connect to strangers just by wearing a simple funny t-shirt. This is one great reason you should get yourself a funny t-shirt.

T-shirt is the most important clothing ever invented. It feels good to wear one. And it feels even better wearing a funny t-shirt. Some t-shirts have big images that are too over powering and make you look like the background. You don't want to look like a fashion disaster though. With just a simple funny line on a shirt you can look like the biggest star cause all eyes will be goggling at you. Your funny t-shirt can even be a start of a productive conversation. If you want to impress someone wear your heart out with shirts that contains humor. You can wear funny shirts anytime and anywhere.

The phenomena of t-shirt still lives on today. It is considered an international icon for all people. The rich man leaving in a palace wears t-shirts too. The poor man living in the alley definitely wears one. There are no boundaries when it comes to t-shirts. The one only thing that can make a big difference is how you wear it. You can wear a funny t-shirt and make other people rolling on the floor or laugh out loud. Stand out from the crowd. Don't just settle for boring t-shirts. You can add a little spice in your oh so boring day by popping up with a great funny t-shirt. Let other people see the funny side of you without much effort.

Some of the funny t-shirts I really like are the one with the lines "For a minute there you bored me to death", "There's too much blood in my alcohol system", "I used to be atheist until I realized I am God" and a whole lot more. Just check out the other funny graphic t-shirts and you'll see what I mean. These funny t-shirts are not available in any other shops so you're guaranteed 100% that the designs are all original. No need to worry if there are many identical shirts like yours. The funny t-shirts are made with the best quality printing method that is way ahead of the competitors out there. The graphics are more detailed and definitely more eye catching. You can visit the website to check out more of the designs I haven't mentioned.








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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Funny Jokes


Without the fun, humor and laughter that jokes bring, the world will be all frowns. Funny jokes are created to reflect life in unusual, hilarious and entertaining ways. A good laugh is as infectious as funny jokes are impacting to life. In adding humor to life's experiences, funny jokes make the world worth smiling. The laughter that funny jokes bring makes people feel like a kid again and cope with difficult situations by looking at the lighter side of any circumstance in life. Funny jokes bring simple pleasures in life as they present a classic way of keeping people entertained.

One thing that is great about funny jokes is that it gives people a great way to channeling life's negativity and turning it into something that is constructive. It uses your pain as the basis of humor, your cynics as your wits, and it uses puns for its punch lines. Funny jokes provide you with a constructive use of your lies, untruths and frustrations. It brings a sense of release that prevents all the negativity from getting hold up inside you. In many ways, funny jokes make life more bearable and worth smiling about.

There's no better way to pass idle time, coffee break, recess or time outs than by sharing funny jokes. One way of bonding with your peers, co-workers and family is through funny conversations. Whatever is a conversation without funny jokes? Adding funny elements in conversations is one effective treat in keeping people engaged in a conversation. It works like caffeine. It stimulates everybody's senses. It makes us think. It pushes us to best one another with a better joke.

The act of creating a funny joke is fail-safe. You can do no wrong in attempting to create or narrate a story with the intension of making people laugh. The general response for jokes would be laughter if not a slight twitch of smile on the face of onlookers or listeners. If a joke did not get any response, the joke is called flat. But even flat jokes make people laugh as much as funny jokes do. You see, no one can do wrong in making his own versions of jokes. It even does not have rules or methods to follow. Just follow your thoughts, stay with it, make fun with it and narrate it. Surely, your thoughts will work out a funny joke.

We have seen enough movies to see that funny guys get the pretty ladies and funny men end up lucky. Even funny cartoon characters are given happy endings. We have seen enough reality show to say that the key to being famous is by being featured in a funny video. Being funny is the key to getting a head in life people! Now there's a simple funny joke.

Creating and delivering a funny joke is an innate ability that humans have, although some chose not to explore those innate skills. A good joke can simply be created by just telling an honest story about your life. As the cliché goes, "be yourself". Don't be afraid to make fun of yourself once in a while. Life was not created to get people uptight. Just lay back and let your thoughts flow. Engage some friends in a simple conversation and start talking. You'll be surprised; the jokes will just roll out of your mouth.








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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Funny Life Quotes to Slap the Stress Away


Life is full of pressures and stress and everyone has a bunch of worries. There is no one who is stress free. Even a five year old kid has his own problems. Stress affects everybody whether one is rich or poor, literate or illiterate, men or women.

Some people are stressed because they don't have enough time; some are stressed because they have too much spare time. Some people are stressed because they hate the people they work with and don't like their job and there are some others who are stressed because they are unemployed. From kid to young to elder everyone is stressed.

In such a time, where stress is leading to depression and unprecedented health problems, Funny Life Quotes can help you tickle your funny bone. One of the best way to reduce stress is to laugh a lot and this is what funny life quotes do. They give you belly laugh and keep your laughter motor going on smoothly.

Everyone must keep a sense of the humorous part of life. If you really want to enjoy life, then you must look at the humorous part of the life. It will also help you to tackle any problem of life with a smile on face. Funny Life quotes remind you of the Fun and Humor Side of your Life. Reading them will certainly help you kick-out all the stress of your life.

Have you ever been in a situation in social gathering where you don't have words to describe your point of view or you don't have something funny to say when everyone is cracking jokes and having fun? There is no worse situation than this that causes stress.

You can get over to this situation by learning some funny Sayings and Funny Life Quotes. There are thousand of funny sayings and funny Life Quotes websites available on internet. Try to learn at least twenty funny quotes a day and at the end of the month you would be able to learn six hundred funny quotes.

Now, next time whenever you are in social gathering, just throw in some funny life quotes and funny sayings. Let everyone know that how humorous and funny person you are and be famous for your words.

With the advent of Internet technology, now finding information on everything is as easy as counting 1 2 3. We need not to go outside somewhere to find out information as our

Ancestors do. There are literally thousand of websites on the internet with hundred of funny life quotes to read. With so much of quotes, you can easily find out the funny quote as per your need and situation.

Using Proper Funny Life quotes on proper situation can help you set apart from Boring peoples and helps you being a funny person which everyone loves to be.








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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Brighten Your Friend's Day with Funny Jokes


Funny jokes bring smiles to everyone, young or old, male or female. There are thousands of hilarious jokes available online so you never have to run out of funny things to send your family, friends, or coworkers.

Funny Jokes by Email - Finding Safe Jokes

With email you can send funny jokes to your friends or coworkers with the simple click of a mouse. Encouraging or funny emails always help relieve frustration during a busy workday. They bring laughs when someone's going through a stressful time. You might send funny blonde jokes to your blonde friend, or pass funny jokes about women, men, or bosses around to the men or ladies at work. There are also hilarious jokes about work, life, sex, rednecks, animals, and so forth.

Email jokes are popular, but beware of forwarding emails. Forwarding emails are emails that originate from an unknown person and begin circulating among friends via email. They often contain viruses, spy ware, or tracking codes that can hinder your computer's operation or even invade your privacy.

HINT: When sending funny jokes to friends and family, be sure to copy and paste your own set of jokes and attach your own images into the emails. Find a reputable joke site that allows you to use the available jokes so you won't have to worry about email viruses. You can read through the jokes in various categories and copy those you feel will make your friends laugh! Or, you can just send the link of the site to your friends so they can enjoy all the jokes.

Funny Videos

Everyone loves a funny video, as evidenced by the tremendous popularity of "America's Funniest Home Videos" over many years. People love to watch funny videos of funny animals, bleeps and blunders, sports blunders, practical jokes, funny accidents, and funny encounters. With the Internet, you can download funny videos for your own website and make the videos available to your website visitors. You can also download them and send the files by email or watch them on another site. You might want to make your own funny video and send it to friends and family as a joke or for a gag gift.

Funny Pictures

Another way to get some laughs with friends is to view funny pictures or pass them around by email. These can be pictures of animals, people, events, or anything that would strike someone as funny. Funny pictures can be converted to Internet files using a digital camera or digital files. They can be scanned into a computer, or if you're an artist, you might be able to draw some funny pictures.

Funny Business for Your Website

An idea for your business is to add funny pictures or funny videos to your website for visitors to watch or download. Find something funny that relates to your business. For example, if you own an insurance business, find a video or picture that uses humor to illustrate possible insurance needs. A man flipping into the air off his bike after hitting a curb is not really funny in life, but for potential insurance customers, it might bring a few laughs through a funny video. You'd be surprised at how these types of funny home videos or photos get attention and visitors!

Search online to find a funny joke site that offers written jokes, funny videos, funny pictures, and more. You can make your friends laugh every day of the week!








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Saturday, October 16, 2010

How to Be Funny Whenever You Want to Be


This is not a funny article. I'm not really setting out to make you laugh. But I can give you the nuts and bolts of humor that you'll be able to use for the rest of your life. In one simple, kinda long, article. I can do that.

Up until recently I had this young kid in my life, and around a year ago I got the kid some software so that he could take his love of animation to the next level and actually make his own cartoons. As I saw it he had two hurdles to overcome: learning the software and learning how to turn his appreciation of cartoons into actually making enjoyable cartoons. I took him to a few animation festivals and shortly thereafter began to see him copying things he saw. I told him that was OK, to get started, but eventually he'd need, and want to, make something totally original. And so he did. And they were...not so great. I told him he was doing great, just keep going. And he did. But he had a hard time with the humor. And he asked me the big question; how do you make stuff funny?

Lots of people think kid's questions are childish, and sometimes that's true. But sometimes they ask questions that are eternal. Questions that they'll still be trying to answer as adults. And humor is a perfect example. What IS humor? It's hard enough to get a handle on defining it, but the mechanics of being humorous are downright greased pig territory.

Basically my comedy arsenal comes down to 2 items. After years and years of being a fan of humor like everybody else and then finally going to tons of Improv schools and becoming an improviser, I whittled it down, so all I need are 2 items to remind me HOW to be funny if it doesn't just come naturally. And that brings me to the only bad news I'm going to tell you. Some people are naturally funny-but you already knew that. And when I was in Improv school I used to ask teaches how could I be funny in this or that particular situation. I was a naturally funny guy, but I couldn't channel it into every one of our practice scenarios. It's like being a ballot dancer and somebody telling you to do your thing in an elevator. It can be done, but if you're not Baryshnikov you gotta have a strategy. Now the 2 tools.

Item one; John Vorhaus's book The ComicToolbox: How to Be Funny Even If You're Not

Item two; Rowan Atkinson's 1992 TV special for Showtime Funny Business

I have a copy of Vorhaus's book in storage with my stuff in LA, so I had to go to the Chicago library to find a copy, and it's always checked out so that wasn't easy. But plain and simple he gives you the fundamentals of comedy. While I was at the library I picked up another book that looked like it was for kids, Mark Stolzenberg's How to Be Really Funny . It's a nice little book. Something he says that IS very important is "make yourself laugh." If you legitimately laugh at something you've done; it's probably funny. He's also looks at various people from the old days too, and that's important because it's good to think about who makes you laugh and WHY.

Atkinson's special is an odd thing. I really don't know how or why it got made. I can't really imagine who convinced somebody it was a financially good idea. And on top of that I don't think it's ever been released. I think my copy is on VHS in LA. And I might have a digital copy out here in Chicago I found as a torrent, but it might also be his Rowan Atkinson Live!

At any rate, Atkinson is very well known as the Mr. Bean guy, but I knew him first as Black Adder Which I'm a much bigger fan of by the way. But in his comedy documentary he breaks comedy down into 3 concepts.

Wrong size

Wrong speed

Wrong place

If you truly learn those ideas, quite honestly, that's all you need. But I strongly advise the Vorhaus book because it will make you able to understand those concepts better. There are many, many, many ways to break comedy down to its "core." For instance; all those Improv teachers I had were able to give me hundreds of little rules. Like the rule of 3 (sometimes five, and never 2), or "yes, and" or this VERY important one; a "joke" (meaning something funny) has 2 parts. A setup and a punchline. Blow the balloon up, and pop it.

The setup and punchline idea can manifest itself in many ways. Like the old standard joke format; "why did the chicken cross the road...to get to other side" Or for example, the straight man and the loony guy: Abbott and Costello, Mork and Mindy, Belushi as a Samurai and whoever came into his store. It's the reason they can get Steve Correll to do a remake of Get Smart without having to worry much about destroying the legacy. Buck Henry wrote the hell out of those characters 86 and 99. Didn't work out for Bewitched . But that's another good example; the situation and the comedy are the setup and the punchline.

Now let's go back to Atkinson's ideas. You have to really sit down and think about them. Or better yet, look at something that you find funny and I guarantee you it will be because of one of those 3 ideas-or a combination. If you go to StumbleUpon you can browse websites with picture, video or all manor of things by following the humor links That kid I mentioned earlier-I took him to see Hot Fuzz and after the movie I asked him to point out why certain things were funny (we were completely unable to do that with Eddie Murphy's movie Norbit). Just keep in mind that when it comes to those ideas it can be nouns or concepts.

For instance, have you ever listened to the sound effects in a 3 Stooges film? When those guys get hit by a pie or a fish it sounds like a gunshot. Wrong place joke or is it a wrong size joke? The sound is too big. Emotions can be the wrong size too. But hey, speaking of old brother teams, try finding something by the Ritz Brothers if you can, and obviously you can go wrong with The Marx Brothers. Their stuff is STILL funny. And since we're in the way back machine already; try looking up The Thin Man Collection. Not slapstick but again, always funny.

I'll leave you with a few examples. funny clip that I found today while preparing the article I'm writing tomorrow. It's a wrong place and wrong speed joke.

And in the photo of me (which should be in the lower right hand corner of this piece and definitely on my profile page). I have an afro, and the joke SEEMS to be the hair (cause it's funny looking), but the hair is actually the setup. The punch line is the fork and toaster.








David Rosenthal writes for the internet. Chicago native, lived in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. Graduated Columbia University. Did film/tv acting. Studied Bujinkan Taijutsu. Comic book and movie fan. Renovating my home.



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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Why Are Funny Video Clips So Popular?


The one thing that is for sure in this world is that comedy ad things that are funny, silly, or sexy really get people's attention ad stand out in their minds. Why do you think that advertisers use content that is really funny, pretty silly, downright stupid and/or irritating or a bit on the sexy/steamy side? It is because these things really get the viewer's attention and stick in their minds if this material is in the form of a commercial on the radio or television or the internet. The question of why funny video clips are so popular and funny is subjective. What we mean by this is that the reasons people find something funny all depends upon the individual in question.

Think about this topic this way: what you might find pretty funny, say you like watching video clips of people getting pranks or practical jokes pulled on them; someone else might look at and say that is not really that funny. They might feel that what you think is really funny is actually pretty ridiculous to them. This is basically what we mean by the statement that the actual definition of what is funny and what isn't is subjective. We have seen instance of people posting free funny video clips that they really thought were funny, like the aforementioned example of people having pranks pulled on them, only to have people look at these and say that they really were not as funny as the person shooting the video thought it was.

The main reason that funny video clips really are so popular is that they provide a means of escape for a short time. If you are looking for something to get your mind off of whatever is bothering you, mist of the time you will want to watch something funny. This is precisely why there are so many funny videos clips out there on the internet. People are always looking for something that is new and different to watch and to laugh at.

There are so many people that really want to just forget what is bothering them for a little while and have a good laugh. You know what they say about Laughter being the Best Medicine? Well, it turns out that this little bit of wisdom is actually right on the mark when it comes to helping people keep their lives as balanced as they possibly can. This is also part of the reason that so many people are watching free funny video clips online. They simply want something that will help them make their lives a little bit lighter and better. Why do you think that websites like YouTube and its siblings/offshoots are so blessed popular worldwide? It is because people can find just about anything that they are looking for in the way of videos and video clips. You really cannot say enough about what people really think is funny; except that videos are not going to be going anywhere too soon.








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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Funny Interview Questions


Job Interview is generally a set of questions asked by the interviewer to test the ability of a candidate, his/her knowledge and personality. It is the employer's way of assessing prospective candidates, to find if they are good enough for the job for which the company is recruiting. During the interview process the interview will ask different types of questions to know more about the candidate. In most of the companies the interview questions is divided into different types.

Job interview questions differ according to the work structure of a company. But most of the job interview questions asked by the companies are related to the three categories. In the first set, the interview asks about the candidate's family background, education, and interests. The second set comes with question meant to assess the technical knowledge of the candidate. While the last is to judge the candidate's personality - his/her nature, decision making capacity, ideology, and ability to solve problems.

But some interview boards also ask a few funny interview questions to the candidate. This is a tricky method to check the candidate's reaction. Many candidates don't know how to answer a funny interview question. Hearing a funny interview question some candidates get irritated. What is there in getting irritated hearing a funny interview question? The candidates have to know that these questions are meant to check the psychological structure of the candidate. There is nothing to get panic or irritated hearing funny interview questions. Just answer the funny interview questions as other technical questions in a simply way.

By asking funny interview questions the interviewer is trying to test the nerve of the candidate. Just relax and show enthusiasm to answer the funny interview question as the other interview questions. The interviewer is trying to check what type of person you are. That is whether you have enough humor sense. Funny interview questions are asked to put the candidate at ease. By asking funny interview questions, the interviewer is also trying to make you relaxed and enthusiastic. The interviewer also needs to remove the tension in you and make the interview process very informal. This is done so as to smoothen the interview process.

If the interview feels that you are tensed, he cannot judge clearly whether you are fit for the job or not. When the interview is done in a tensed manner, you will also be not able to answer all the question correctly as you may forget many answers because of the tension which remains in your mind. This is the main reason why interviews ask many funny questions to you.

So now you get the idea what are these funny interview questions meant for. There is nothing to worry about funny interview questions. Simply answer the questions with a funny answer so that the interview will enjoy your answer. By answering the funny interview questions in a funny way or responding to the question in the same enthusiasm as the other questions you can sometimes make a ticket into the list of expected winners.








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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Funny Cartoon - Steps To Create Cartoons


Cartoon conveys a message to the viewer. Funny cartoon makes us laugh. Cartoon is commonly a funny stuff itself. If it impacts more flavor on our laugh, we can say a funny or funniest cartoon. Cartoonists create cartoons based on funny instances around us. The activities of different creatures are few sources of making funny cartoon. The character of the funny cartoon acts some uncommon or abnormal activities that make viewer a laugh. The funny cartoon is a reflection some of our reality in life. Some natural theme is shown what we hardly find in our real life. The cartoonists have that sense to capture the snap and put on their cartoon art board.

Where it is usedThe funny cartoons are used in print media as well as in electronics media. Most of the daily news papers bring some fresh reality in the cartoon column. Few regular cartoonists for the news paper, create funny cartoons conveying political happenings, sports jokes, film news, or on any current issue happened in the country or in the city. Funny cartoons put on the posters and advertisements billed on the walls of the streets. Magazines and study books are illustrated with context oriented cartoon images. Electronics media use funny cartoons in many purposes and instances widely. The cartoons are used in form of Logo, Mascot, Layout, Back ground, Intro etc. Television and web media have a huge usage of funny cartoons. Many funny animated or static cartoons in banners, buttons and intro are used in websites. Some popular funny faces with different emotions are used in websites. Same funny faces are used in documents in web and printing media. In computer games, we can see many types funny characters are design. In mobile, we can see many funny stuff and faces for each function during operations.

Types of Funny Cartoons:Funny Faces, Funny Animals, Funny characters are the real resources of making of funny cartoons. Every cartoonist has a favorite face or character or style of making cartoons. That cartoon identifies the cartoonist. Two dimensional (2-D) cartoon graphics are static or animated. Most of digital 2-D cartoons are digitally designed for animation purpose. These are simple and can be created software tools. The 3 dimensional (3-D) cartoons are compressed and streamed digitally. Manual 3-D cartoons are Puppetry, Sketch cartoon or digitally drawn cartoons.

Learning CartoonLearning carton can be possible if you have extreme interest on graphics and cartoon design. There are some basic attributes will help you to later and be a cartoonist. During study you may come across many instances, where you can learn some work as your mile stone. The activities are required like games, workshops, courses, contests, group processes to improve the skills. Courses are designed in such a way that helps for any type candidates to learn more. During learning Cartoon provides valuable insight though and ideas in you. Those thoughts can be applied into cartoon graphics and sometimes become popular and successful.

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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Learn to Be Funny and Attract a Happy World Around You


Being funny is one great skill that can attract people to you. Of course, we all love to laugh and we love company who can make us laugh. With laughter, we feel a positive vibe between us, break awkwardness, make people want you, and of course, it makes us get rid of or problems. If you want to learn to be funny and be more attractive to people around you, read on for more tips.

- Learn it. Yes, it can be a natural talent for some but if you want to learn to be funny, you can at least learn it or cultivate your sense of humor. Learn how to see the funny side of things and learn when to give a witty remark. Learn from funny people. Watch funny movies and shows. Learn the things that many people find funny and make sure you learn from the best comedians. You can also get yourself some funny books to read and get ideas. Try to learn some funny words as well. Expressions can also be funny.

- Be keen and observant. You can actually find a lot of funny materials that you can use from everyday activities and even from your own mistakes, to celebrities, to your job... you can actually find a lot of good material for humor. If you have learned from best comedians and from the movies you watch and funny stories you've read, you will have an idea what to find in a humorous story. Lies can be funny. Political lies can be funny as well. The unexpected is funny - a groom that slipped on the way to the altar, and sometimes even pain can be funny.

- Find proper timing. Timing is important also if you want to learn to be funny. Punch lines should be given at the right timing. When you just had a hilarious conversation with your friends and an hour later you have thought about something that is funny, saying it after everything has calmed down and the laughter has died down may not be funny anymore. To be funny, you have to be quick as well.

- Practice delivering funny lines. To learn to be funny is not just about gathering funny materials that you can share. Even if you do think you have the funniest jokes collected, if you don't know how to deliver them, they may end up just like an ordinary story. You can make funny faces, have a distinct style or something unconventional in your ways, or get some props for your 'funny image'.

- Know your audience. Aside from proper timing, you also have to get familiar with your audience. Of course, funny lines and jokes that are not inappropriate for the audience may not be funny to them after all. Sex jokes, stereotypes and ethnic jokes may not be appropriate for certain audiences, so make sure also that you are in the right place for such jokes.

Have fun. If you are having fun with your funny stories and jokes, you end up vibrating a positive atmosphere to our audience and that alone can make a big difference in being funny.








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