Will the wedding be an amusing farce?
Gaiman, creator of the "Sandman" graphic novles, blends comedy, fantasy and folklore in this amusing farce about the feckless Fat Charlie Nancy, who makes two life-altering discoveries: that his late father was Anansi, the African trickster god, and that he has a brother, Spider, who has inherited some of their father's abilities.
Sheridan showed his gratitude by writing the amusing little farce St . Patricks Day; Or, The Scheming Lieutenant for the benefit performance given for Clinch in May 1775.
I'm kind of hoping my next work will be a humorous bedroom farce about the amusing foibles of the upper middle class, intercut with succulent dessert recipes.
Still there are slyly amusing moments in this screwball farce, and because of the authorship it is worth a second look.
He did attempt straight comedies, but seldom with success; I found "All These Women" (1964), a Fellini-flavored farce, about as amusing as pleurisy, whereas the richly shadowed stories, like "Wild Strawberries" (1957), are all the more telling for their streaks of comic light.
Indeed, so entertained was the genuine novelist by the whirligig of her forebear's social mania, especially on the Isle of Wight, that she also wrote a play on the subject — a surreal semi-farce entitled "Freshwater," first performed in 1935, which is roughly as amusing as you would expect a farce by Virginia Woolf to be.
Anyway, this oddball speculation has been given amusing flesh in this logorrheic romp of a sex farce by Charles L. Mee.
By now, despite a few mildly amusing notions, it's clear that this is a farce about ambition that is not ambitious enough, right down to its cutesy, punning title.
Done as high farce, these scenes of political infighting are very amusing, but the serious burden - nothing less than the future of a country - is always booming away in the background.
Mr. Dinello and the screenwriters, the brothers Steven and Daniel Altiere, have found an amiable and amusing middle ground between adult slacker comedy and frenetic children's farce.
