Big formula for farce
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AS the 2004 season headed into the final lap, farce and boredom were still vying for supremacy, but with the kind of audacious over-taking manoeuvre fans would love to witness on the track, farce darted into the lead to take the chequered flag.
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What do you get when you pair random Family Circus cartoons with random Nietzsche quotes? I don't know, but it's a lot funnier than The Family Circus. In Table of Malcontents.
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TIME.comix on a pair of outstanding showcases
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All kinds of controversy is coming soon to a theater near you.
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ÂFor Your ConsiderationÂ is by far the broadest comedy Christoper Guest and company have made. Despite its merriment, it is also the flimsiest.
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If ever a play required a reading list, Tom Stoppard's ÂCoast of Utopia" is it. So letÂs get started.
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In a revelation that should give late-night comedians two or three days&#39; worth of snark fodder, the headlines this morning startled us with the news that the world&#39;s
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A satirical look at the pretexting scandal at HP.
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Gabe: So the big news today, in the world of web comics at least is that PvP is getting itself animated. Scott posted the news along with a little teaser over on his site. He"s actually writing the entire thing with the help of Kris Straub. I was a big fan of the old Blamimations they did together and I"ve told them both whenever possible that they needed to collaborate more. I make jokes when I"m uncomfortable and it just so happens I have issues with anxiety so I"m essentially uncomfortable all day. That means I spend a lot of my time making jokes. When Scott and Kris were up here visiting I hardly said a word. They"re just too funny and they"re always on. You just can"t compete with them, all you can do is laugh.
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Writing the book was one thing; turning it into a play was quite another.
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Please quote me on this Stob There's another of those lists of supposedly amusing/sage/cute adagesÂ going around, bouncing from blog to email, accumulating fresh contributions and occasional edits and doing all the meme-ish things that memes do. This one differs from all the others that you have deleted irritably from your email inbox in that it includes a contribution taken from this very column.â¦
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: Cameron's plethora of programmes is winning him few friends. To beat Brown, he needs humour, aggression and charm.
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Getting involved with a cheater spells t-r-o-u-b-l-e. (27 points!)
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Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
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Life is but a series of bets. Herewith, a guide to boosting the odds.
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"Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns" (Gotham Books. $19.99. 304 pages), by Pauline Kiernan: In high school, when Miss Grundy rubbed your adolescent nose in Shakespeare, she was perhaps unaware that the Bard of Avon had ye pottye mouthe.
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Arts & entertainment: There's a brilliant exhibition to be made about humour and art. Shame the Hayward's new show isn't it