Thread: MobileRead October 2016 Discussion: The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh (spoilers)
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Old 10-23-2016, 07:28 AM   #24
Hamlet53
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Originally Posted by CRussel View Post
OK, I"m about 2/3rds through, and I certainly see why the divergent views. Is it funny? Well, yeah. It is. Not slapstick funny, not Monty Python funny, and not even Jonathan Winters funny (though I can definitely seem him in a film version of this.) But dry, British, rather bitter funny. This is satire, certainly. But I'm enjoying it, and am ultimately glad we're reading it. (Though I still have trouble understanding how anyone can read even just the first chapter of Midnight Riot and not know why I thought it belonged here.)

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Spoiler:
I thought "Dumb and Dumber" was the worst movie of its year, and I only lasted 15 minutes into it, and we'd PAID for it. And while I can watch Monty Python, it's not really my thing. But I can watch re-runs of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie as Jeeves and Wooster almost endlessly. And it's not Hugh Laurie that I love about it, though he's perfect. It's the dry "Certainly, sir" of Stephen Fry that gets me every time.
In the interest of not outing your spoiler . . .

Spoiler:
Never even wanted to see Dumb and Dumber. But then more than a few minutes of Jim Carrey has me frantically reaching for the remote control when anything with him in it comes on cable television. I'd never pay going to a theater to see a film with him in it. I've always felt the same about Adam Sandler as well.

Now Monty Python has for me always been a mixed bag. I never found much of their slapstick humor really funny but stuff like this:




or this



how many decades and how many viewings? It still cracks me up

Fawlty Towers as well.
Last edited by Hamlet53; 10-23-2016 at 07:48 AM.
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