But I do have plenty of time for Paul Merton, and for the out of the way, and the absurd... well, an hour at least.
But laissez-faire appeared absurd, as well as morally abhorrent, to Keynes.
But the cathedral of British tennis can sometimes seem a theatre of the absurd as well.
Brendel developed a taste for the absurd as well as the classical.
There are tense episodes, some dangerous, some absurd, as well as many ironic observations on the jargon of professionals and the language that conceals feelings.
But it was led and shaped by a singular politician — a playwright of the absurd who well understood the comic improbabilities of his life.
The Dole Army's point that the tabloid media would publish anything about the unemployed, no matter how absurd, was well proved in the wash-up.
There is something absurd as well as offensive about the church getting caught up in all the fashionable nonsense about name-dropping and intimate knowledge of the private behaviour of the great and good.
Peter Høeg displays a glorious facility for the absurd as well as the picaresque, and the hilarity of Peter Finø's narrative makes this a delightful novel even for readers who have limited tolerance of surrealism.
As a reminder of how absurd, as well as tragic, things were then in this small corner of the world ("Lilliput", one character calls it), Pentecost is without equal.
Or he may be trying to rectify Georg Baselitz's early hero paintings with Sigmar Polke and Martin Kippenberger's sense of the absurd, as well as his own more academic background.
