Quote of the Year? Word of the year? Joke of the year?

[Dan Goncharoff]

"[Britton] favors their sketch about the boy whose parents give him
up for adoption and then show up at his foster home looking for
another kid they'll like better."  [Quoting the article, by Karen
Weintraub.]

Isn't that ironic?...

DanG


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> QOTY:  "This is one of the hallmarks of our comedy: We think that
> things that don't make sense are very funny. Most neurotypicals think
> that things that don't make sense are confusing."
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> WOTY:  neurotypical (n).
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> Spoken by Noah Britton, elder statesmen (at 30, he is 10 years older
> than the other three) of the comedy group "Asperger's Are Us", all of
> whom (spoiler follows) have Aspeger's.
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> "[Britton] favors their sketch about the boy whose parents give him
> up for adoption and then show up at his foster home looking for
> another kid they'll like better."  [Quoting the article, by Karen
> Weintraub.]
>
> Surely not new, but relished nevertheless.
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> Boston Globe, Aug. 23, G4 (magazine section).
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> Joel
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