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  2. Humorous Interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Humorous Interpretation (often shortened to "HI", or "Humor") is an event in competitive middle and high school forensics leagues such as the National Christian Forensics and Communications Association and the National Speech and Debate Association. It consists of a piece from any published work, edited to fit within a 10-minute span with a 30 ...

  3. Individual events (speech) - Wikipedia

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    In Humorous Interpretation (shortened to HI or humorous), the humorous alternative to DI at the high-school level, a competitor performs an eight- to ten-minute selection from a humorous literary work. Much of the rules for HI are identical to its dramatic counterpart with the only difference being that the presentation is funny.

  4. Sketch comedy - Wikipedia

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    Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and is used widely in variety shows, comedy talk shows, and some sitcoms and children's television series.

  5. His Girl Friday - Wikipedia

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    Ryskind revised the script throughout the summer and finished by the end of September before filming began. More than half of the original dialogue was rewritten. [8] The film lacks one of the well-known final lines of the play, "the son-of-a-bitch stole my watch!", because films of the time were more censored than Pre-Code Hollywood films, and ...

  6. Eman Esfandi - Wikipedia

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    Biography. Eman Esfandi was born in Laredo, Texas.His father is Iranian Persian and his mother is from Ecuador.He had an Associate's degree in Business Administration from Laredo College and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin, before pursuing a career in acting.

  7. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - Wikipedia

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    311. ISBN. 9780241293867. Dewey Decimal. 23. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World ( Turkish: On Dakika Otuz Sekiz Saniye) is a 2019 novel by Turkish writer Elif Shafak and her eleventh overall. [3] It is a one-woman story about a sex worker in Istanbul. [4] [5] It was released by Viking Press in 2019.

  8. List of satirists and satires - Wikipedia

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    Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940, Russia/ Soviet Union) – Heart of a Dog, The Master and Margarita. Dorothy Parker (1893–1967, US) satirical writer of humorous short stories, poetry and book reviews. Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930, Russia/Soviet Union) Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) – Point Counter Point, Brave New World.

  9. Mark Twain's Library of Humor - Wikipedia

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    Mark Twain's Library of Humor is an 1888 anthology of short humorous works compiled by Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, William Dean Howells and Charles Hopkins Clark. In 1880, George Gebbie suggested to Mark Twain that he publish an anthology of humorous works. The idea evolved into a project financed by Clemens to produce an ...