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"The Torch-Bearers," hailed 78 years ago by Alexander Woollcott in The New York Times as "a cruel and enormously amusing travesty," would seem since to have gone the way of so much topical parody, straight into storage.
Hailed 78 years ago by Alexander Woollcott in The New York Times as "a cruel and enormously amusing travesty," this satire on the mishaps of a community theater production would seem since to have gone the way of so much topical parody, straight into storage.
And yet as the camera leaves the pair gazing out of their kitchen window, bound forever by their special lady/bird love, there are honks and snorts of laughter as we find ourselves in a brightly decorated television studio with Russell Brand, who has found the archive clip enormously amusing and is making squawking bird noises and flapping his arms, birdily, to prove it.
He says: "In 20 years from now, medical students will find it enormously amusing that we were sticking our hands in patients".
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Hugely amusing, no?
Tremendously amusing?
"It's enormously true and enormously funny".
This amuses him enormously.
Unfortunately, it turned out my camera took AA; what would have been a barely amusing moment in a sitcom was an enormously frustrating moment in life.
Very amusing.
Less amusing?
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