Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf
One comedian (Larry David) mocks another (Bill Maher)… https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/larry-david-hitler-dinner.html
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Byre Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre Live)
A recent and very deliberately camp production The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde–the dedicatee of Sontag’s “Notes”–will be streaming at the Byre on… Read More »Byre Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre Live)
Ed Simon- Who Still Needs the Carnivalesque?
An interesting take on Bakthin’s concept, from The Baffler… Who Still Needs the Carnivalesque?
“The End of Seriousness: Our unfunny times are rife with laughter that seldom offers relief.”
An interesting if doom-laden take on laughter in contemporary times, from Lauren Michele-Jackson, in The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-end-of-seriousness
Shakespeare’s Ur-Comedy of Remarriage on the London stage
A rave review of a just-opened, starry, glammy production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing… https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/feb/19/much-ado-about-nothing-review-theatre-royal-tom-hiddleston-hayley-atwell https://lwtheatres.co.uk/whats-on/much-ado-about-nothing/
First as Tragedy, Second as Farce: Takeshi Kitano’s “Broken Rage”
A new film by Takeshi Kitano re-tells the same story twice, first as violent hitman thriller (as with his earlier films like Sonatine) and second… Read More »First as Tragedy, Second as Farce: Takeshi Kitano’s “Broken Rage”
Bob Mortimer, “For the past fifteen years, I have performed my own dentistry” (Would I Lie to You)
For some reason, this came to mind when I thought of something I watched recently that made me laugh…
Welcome to FM4121 Screen Comedy! (Dr Paul Flaig)
Welcome to the blog for FM4121 Screen Comedy! Please contact me at pf49 if you have any questions or issues about posting or commenting on… Read More »Welcome to FM4121 Screen Comedy! (Dr Paul Flaig)
