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But there was always something about the Beatles that was self-deprecating and charming.
Indeed his self-deprecating I'm-just-a-dumb-jock routine inoculates him against charges of intellectual pretension.
The self-deprecating, nonpolitical portrayal earns him advance exposure with what would be a hard-to-reach constituency if he ran for president in 2000.
Steven gives a winning, perhaps too self-deprecating speech, then holds his plaque high and crows, "I'm king of the room!"
In the context of the book, Wickedly Funny must be interpreted as meaning cynical, bitter, sarcastic, though when it comes to people like Phyllis Diller, who is more vulgarly tragic (or tragically vulgar) than funny, it must include self-deprecating comments (Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves; My plastic surgeon told me my face looked like a bouquet of elbows).