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'Tis the season to have awkward, extended conversations with people you usually only politely nod to in the hallway. 'Tis the season to pretend to have similar or at least not diametrically opposed cultural views as the person you've been trapped into talking to ("I suppose there was a lot of talking in 'The Social Network,' yeah"). 'Tis the season for holiday parties.
It always helps to navigate these things with partner, and Katy Perry could ask for no better a wingman than her husband, Russell Brand. I mean, this is a guy who can improvise a backstory for a character in William Shakespeare's "The Tempest," in five minutes. So he's probably pretty handy to have at a dull Christmas party.
Do you think Katy told Russell beforehand, "OK, if I do that thing with my bangs, it means I'm bored and want to get out that convo, so you just do something funny and British and then meet me at the hors d'oeuvres table." Probably.
To be fair, Brand and Perry were attending filmmaker David Lynch's Change Begins Within benefit, so whatever dull chitchat they endured was for a good cause.