For starters, our rabbi (also a yoga teacher) called us husband and wife, and the words were immediately and acutely electric, funny at first and then wonderfully serious.
Funny, acutely perceptive, extraordinarily loyal and giving - Alan cared".
Alongside his theatre work, Kelly has led a double life: with Sharon Horgan, he is co-creator and writer of BBC3's brilliantly off-kilter Pulling, a wickedly funny and acutely observed portrait of the lives of three thirtysomething women.
He added: "David's writing was always funny, sharp, and acutely aware of what made people tick.
When he finds something funny, he feels acutely the lack of Stephen's laughter in the room.
In 1983 A Little Local Murder was published to much critical acclaim in the US, where one critic described it as "maliciously funny, closely plotted, acutely observed and genuinely puzzling".
Writing in The New York Times, Newgate Callendar called Mr. Barnard "one of the deftest stylists in the field (and out)." Robin Winks, an American scholar of crime literature writing in The New Republic, described Mr. Barnard's mysteries as "maliciously funny, closely plotted, acutely observed and genuinely puzzling" — a high compliment coming from an expert like himself.
One of the creators of the modern novel, Austen isn't just historically important; she's acutely observant, laugh-out-loud funny, and full of timeless truths.
Her crisply rendered, lusciously brushed and smartly composed pictures are also acutely attuned to humor, especially to how funny it is to try to make farming sexy.
His TV show currently exists in a genre all by itself; bittersweet vignettes shot through with self-deprecation and acutely observed truths that also manage to be bladder-burstingly funny.
