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Blessed Be The Cheesemakers

Watching an episode of Miranda Hart’s new sitcom tonight pulled me back to something I’ve been thinking about for a while — and slightly unsettled by. The co-writer on much of the series is James Cary, whose work I’ve come across a few times. He’s also co-written the majority of Milton Jones’s ...

George Carlin Wasn’t Funny

Bill Hicks wasn’t funny. Lenny Bruce wasn’t funny. Okay, some caveats up front: In the absence of any meaningful objective measure of funny, what I mean is that I didn’t/don’t find Carlin funny myself. His stuff — and Hicks’s, and Bruce’s, etc. — doesn’t make me laugh. Also, what ...