Cliché Corner
By
Jill Rosen
Jill Rosen is AJR's assistant managing editor
"After her taste of life behind bars, she was remanded to the Malibu rehab center to resume treatment for alcoholism. And that's no laughing matter."
Newsweek
"When Denis Clayson asked doctors if he would still be able to play the trombone after slicing off the end of his finger, it was no laughing matter."
England's Plymouth Evening Herald
"Food poisoning is no laughing matter, unless it happens to someone else of course."
Ireland's Irish News
"Alas, audit quality is no laughing matter."
Forbes
"PMS, premenstrual syndrome, is a source of monthly misery and the target of very bad jokes, but for millions of women, it is no laughing matter."
CBS News
"Comedy, Steve Martin once famously quipped, is serious business. Jewish comedy in particular is no laughing matter."
Jerusalem Post
"Unemployment is no laughing matter, so it's only a temporary issue in this comedy."
Portland's Oregonian
"Fall is the time when the phrase 'deer caught in the headlights' is no laughing matter."
Newsday
"Anthrax is no laughing matter, and it never was."
Columbus Dispatch
"To the Chiodos, the possibility of a Killer Klowns sequel is no laughing matter."
Memphis' Commercial Appeal
from more than 300 references in October and November ###
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