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   Howard to John Halpenny   
   Re: What's Funny About Impressions?   
   30 Oct 20 01:24:58   
   
   From: howddgrhol@yaynnoo.com   
      
   John Halpenny  wrote   
      
   > Of course, modern media makes it easy, and very common,  to repeat   
   > every joke endlessly until it can't possibly be funny anymore. I enjoy   
   > humor, but finding something unexpected these days is getting very   
   > hard.   
      
   That may be a part of what I'm struggling with. I think Armando Iannucci   
   can make some great political humor, but he stays away from humor directly   
   involving real people and he is extremely creative. I thought it was   
   interesting in The Death of Stalin how little he seemed to care about   
   strictly duplicating the people in Stalin's orbit -- Steve Buscemi gave a   
   very Buscemi-ish performance.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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