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
Comic Shares and Cares
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…
