The music world needs Oasis at this moment, a band with more personality and more amusing quips than any British band for at least 10 years.
Already you carry a phone on which you enter the instructions that shape how your friends will see you: the well-chosen images of you at your most vital, the amusing quips from you at your wittiest.
Botul's creator, Pagès, finds all this hubbub rather amusing and quips: "It has never been firmly established that Botul didn't exist and it cannot thus be ruled out that one day history will prove Bernard-Henri Lévy right".
But this wrongs the jackass". Twain's amusing and mordant quips about animals like these, are well known.
But if there is nothing here as amusing as David Lee Roth's quip – "Most music critics love Elvis Costello, because most music critics look like Elvis Costello Scottott is still an amiable guide through some of the key historical, philosophical and practical issues concerning criticism.
A perfect gaming lead, you might think, and things start well as our hero quips his way through an amusing opening.
From a strictly musical standpoint, Tuesday's gala had its ups and downs: it can't be otherwise in a program devoted to snippets and constantly punctuated by sometimes amusing, sometimes stilted remarks, honorific presentations, and quips.
As the show wound down, Apatow quipped, "This is so much more amusing than what I did on the Marc Maron show".
Of course, as a critique of consumer society, his quip remains at least as cynical as it is amusing, and not everybody will buy it.
François-Marie Arouet, 18th century French author and iconoclast, better known as Voltaire, quipped that, "The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease".
