As with all of Harvey's work, it is a lightfooted, calm-mouthed, moving piece of deceptively funny writing.
"Our Idiot Brother" is a deceptively funny movie, one that never quite goes where you expect it to, utilizing farce constructs without every turning silly.
City Island is deceptively funny, a blithe mix of smarts and feeling that never panders to the audience while offering a story about dreams and reality that anyone could identify with.
With a deadpan, seemingly artless touch, he blended influences from Indian miniature painting, Giorgio de Chirico, Grant Wood, Outsider Art and comic strips of the 40's to create expansive, deceptively simple, funny and mysteriously enchanting landscapes and cityscapes populated by tiny, silhouetted people.
Shrigley's deceptively naive, frequently funny work is likely to make him the people's favourite.
What's more, the story unfolds in a funny, deceptively informative way.
It's an awkward, funny and deceptively clever confection that is saved from Hollywood hipness by the unmistakable warmth of the complex relationship at its heart.
Sated as I am with a steady stream of blokey, schmaltzy or just plain bad second world war-related audios, I can only say that this funny, intelligent, deceptively low-key collection about the Home Counties under siege is long overdue.
It was such a sweetly funny and deceptively significant comedy that managed to embody all the ideals we claim to hold dear — tolerance, inclusiveness, equality, respect for democracy in both big and small government — without ever seeming defiant or even political.
His writing is so funny -- and deceptively effortless -- critics often liken it to a stand-up comedy routine.
The goofy, improbable, combative partnership of the straight man (the personification of the dim, self-deluded, deceptively sensible superego) and the funny man (the unruly, equally clueless, more physically confident id) is so instantly comprehensible and so uncomfortably hilarious that, consciously or unconsciously, we must recognize the presence of something primal in their loony interaction.
