It seems a fitting observation on the lives of comedians behind whose talent to amuse so often lies private unhappiness. |
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And those that are intended to amuse oneself at the cost of others should definitely be cast away on the rubbish heap. |
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We were served a simple amuse bouche of foie gras parfait, on a thin poppadom covered in poppy seeds. |
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He plays the role with a wry detachment, his Dex a bon vivant who's messing with his ex-wife's wedding just to amuse himself. |
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He falls off his chair and stumbles around in a comical manner to amuse us all. |
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He was always splendid with children and he would amuse them by singing songs from the opera and the music hall. |
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This lends an air of deliberate camp to a play that needs no such favours, and which would amuse with more subtlety in their absence. |
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The producers also found it necessary to insert that wearisome kidvid standby, the cute animal mascot, to amuse the toddlers. |
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Anderson knows how to amuse us with a mosaic of background details and throwaway lines. |
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It didn't offend me, amuse me, arouse me, repel me, seduce me or astound me. |
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Turned loose, boys would amuse themselves shooting craps, watching prostitutes, and learning the ways of the street. |
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Tracy was busy sketching a diagram of Sed's room, while I was clicking my tongue every time the clock's second hand ticked to amuse myself. |
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At one point I was called upon to amuse the crowd by displaying the Khmer that Kimtheng had taught me. |
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She invented the game to amuse the children of the workers, making pictures from felt scraps applied to the fuzzy side of table mats. |
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The clowns, besides trying their best to amuse the children, demonstrate their acrobatic skills. |
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After an apology, how does one reinvigorate oneself and acquire the strength to amuse? |
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Have I been put here to entertain you or amuse you, is your life that boring? |
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To read it is like spending hours with an erudite conversationalist who is disposed to amuse you. |
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If you can tear yourself away from the hotel and the beach, you will find plenty of other activities to amuse you. |
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The family entertainer, she loved to amuse guests by dancing on the dining table. |
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Small things amuse small minds, she says, scornful of the rude slapstick humor they practice. |
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This position requires no formal qualifications beyond antiquity and a willingness to amuse and provoke in equal measure. |
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The trouble is, Dawson was a born raconteur, and like most raconteurs he sometimes embellished his stories to amuse his listeners. |
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Isn't it great, how kids can amuse themselves with nothing more than a climbable tree and an active imagination? |
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Adults can amuse themselves with windsurfing, water-skiing, snorkelling lessons and paragliding. |
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When Sir Robert Walpole retired into private life, time hung heavy on his hands, and Horace exerted himself to amuse his father. |
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Snead was molded into a figure who would amuse us, leave us in awe and make us embrace him as something uniquely American. |
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Who needs a doting husband anyway when you've got money, malls and lots of petty activities to amuse you? |
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They claim it will achieve its goals to welcome, accommodate, entertain and amuse visitors. |
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Is it some sort of enjoyable moviegoing experience that is here to amuse you? |
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In a couple of minutes, I can whip out jumping frogs or hungry mouths that amuse kids for hours. |
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The 48-year-old was also robbed in the latest attack known as happy slapping, where victims are assaulted to amuse thugs who film it on mobiles. |
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I had learned from many of these trips to bring homework, books, a deck of cards, to amuse myself, sometimes for three days. |
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They had a block party, and as is the custom, a fire truck showed up to amuse the kids. |
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It's Saturday night, you want to go to the movies, every single one of them will sort of amuse you but not one of them is going to slay you. |
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This does not amuse either puss who associate feathered birds with fair game and dinner. |
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I'm a little sleepy and uploading these pics is taking a bajillion years so I'll leave this lot to amuse you for now and resume broadcasting tomorrow at some decent hour. |
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She does this first to sexlessly amuse herself out of her relationship drudgery and second because of her theory that women respond to women, not men. |
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For instance, Brecht challenged the worth of stories that merely entertain, amuse or at best, provide emotional involvement and release through catharsis. |
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To amuse themselves on their first day, the captives held a tilting match in the gardens, and following that they attended a ballet and a collation. |
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It could be an entertaining one too with the optional TV screens built into the front headrests, enabling back seat passengers amuse themselves with DVDs or video games. |
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Extra staff are always on duty to cope with the numbers, and sometimes amuse themselves by keeping a running tally of blue-topped patients versus green and white. |
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Chloe of the Midnight Storytellers will amuse the guests by recounting tales from myth and legend, as well as adaptations of literary short stories. |
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They are little sketches of people or animals that he produced on the back of invoices or on the headed notepaper of his shop, to amuse his two youngest children. |
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Historically, people used to use it to amuse their house guests. |
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There will also be a circus entertainer on hand to amuse the youngsters. |
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In the filled foyer, free Oyster Boy oysters were glugged, amuse bouches were bouched and goodies were raffled off in a silent auction to raise funds for the Fringe. |
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In the right frame of mind any crucial five minutes could amuse the most restive psyche, despite which fact you feel certain that you could easily destroy a universe of time. |
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In art, the lure of anecdote always presents serious risks, and a good deal of nineteenth century American art succumbed to that drive to explain and amuse. |
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There are plenty of high ropes activities in the trees to amuse you here. |
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A redent refurb means that there is now a larger play area for children, with a table and crayons to amuse them while you flex Daddy's Amex. |
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Where else can you eat a three-course dinner with amuse bouche, coffee and petit fours for less than PS17 a head? |
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His masters would then amuse themselves by pelting him with bones. |
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Guests will enjoy a specially created five course fixed tasting style menu plus amuse bouche for PS45 each, wine matching option available. |
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And it was time for my untutored doggy-paddle to amuse the other holiday-makers. |
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Unlike a lot of kids who wind up punished for their wisecracks, he actually managed to amuse his gym teacher, Ken Bright. |
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Recondite adventures in the insipid, the artsome, the equine, do not amuse my servant or myself. |
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There is nothing new or progressive in the politically corrected vocabularies that now amuse the prejudiced. |
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Nursery rhymes and nonsense verse used to amuse or quiet children also are frequent subjects of traditional songs. |
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This work specifically advises royal retainers to amuse their masters with inventive language. |
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From its voluminous pockets came forth toys and candies to amuse us during sojourns in doctors' waiting rooms and other kid purgatories. |
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Barrie would say, to amuse them, that their little brother Peter could fly. |
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All the while, my intention was to amuse her, and divert her out of her hellish thoughts, and show to her the wide world of which she could now be a part. |
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The menu at Licorous here in Seattle features a selection of amuse bouche-sized appetizers paired with complementary and equally tempting cocktails. |
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The characters that would make Awdry famous and the first stories featuring them were invented in 1943 to amuse his son Christopher during a bout of measles. |
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The purpose of the anecdote is to show the bold recklessness of the warrior, who could amuse himself with his song-craft in the very face of the enemy. |
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After these first wan gags, subsequent riffs on the same themes fail to amuse. |
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The Embassy produced a short video in advance of the trip, which, in the spirit of our times, is meant to both inform and amuse. |
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A purse can impress and intimidate, bewilder, berate, or amuse. |
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