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Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.
Every generation of children has its private hero.
I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.
I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.
It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.
Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.
Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated... →
The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but... →
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their... →
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across... →
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