It is traditional to complain that comedy is overlooked in awards ceremonies — and I have done my own share of whingeing on this account — so it's great to see properly funny films rewarded in this way.
Even so comedy scenes such as Del boy's 'falling through the bar' or 'the chandelier repair' transcended any language barrier".
The 46-year-old Lee is obsessed with obscure musicians, outsider artists and forgotten writers and he brings some of their off-kilter spirit to standup comedy.
The comedy is darkly funny and brutally skewers the relationship between white and black Australia.
It restricts any posthumous exploitation of the actor, be it through the use of CG to digitally resurrect him in Mrs Doubtfire 2 or as a live hologram performing comedy on stage – something that the advancement of technology has made an increasingly likely occurrence.
This would usually be the point for me to demand a TV format that accommodates that liveness; one that makes space for radical comedy, political comedy, is-it-really comedy, interactive comedy.
Incidentally, on how many networked TV comedy shows would 100% of the guests be female?
A charge is generated when comedy and seriousness mix, when funny people admit that not everything is always funny.
At the moment, it is The Full Monty, debutant director Peter Cattaneo's unlikely Sheffield steelworkers-turn-Chippendales comedy hit, released in Britain this week, that is getting Carlyle talked about here and in the States.
The last word must go to dastardly Didrich himself, Pilou Asbæk, who I interviewed on the side of a Scottish mountain last week where he's been filming new BBC2 comedy Stag.
What is perhaps more surprising is that he has approached it, at least partly, as a comedy.
