Archive For The “Humor” Category
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Doctor, my sides are splitting! This is reality tv as you’ve never seen it before, baroque, brightonesque and utterly bonkers. The cakes are magnificent and the characters are extraordinary – especially Christine the creative director and Dave, the head chocolatier. Add to the mix supercool cook Jim and “ambitious assistant” Tom, stir, stand back and [...]
Even his most vehement detractors would concede that Martin Amis, on form, is one of the most brilliant writers we have. A master of the comic novel, and an inspiration to Will Self and Zadie Smith amongst countless others, he has also proved to be a provocative commentator; his views on our and other cultures [...]
“I can hear the sound of the great unwashed, thundering over the horizon, Peregrine, fortune favours the brave, what!” Theobald Tanqueray Thompkinson, leaning unsteadily forwards, jocular and rotund; rubicund, reckless and implausibly optimistic. A glass of gin cradled carefully in one hand, the other carving swathes through the alcoholic fug. A Prince of Wales checked [...]
