First, the book was, as expected, funny and ingeniously plotted.
You expect a funny punch line; you get an obvious answer, made funny solely by subverting the expectation that it would be funny.
Nicol Williamson (obituary, 27 January), like John Osborne, was everything you didn't expect: very funny, sophisticated, subtly affectionate, wickedly observant, as interested in other people as a brilliant mimic has to be.
Clooney is introducing close friend Brad Pitt's "Moneyball," and Pitt wil return the favor by introducing Clooney's "Ides of March" during the awards show but don't expect any funny business between the pals who are up for competing awards.
What else do any of these women comedians expect, being funny and crass in public?! MacArthur ended the segment saying that "whether it's males or females, when it comes to comedy, all I'm going to say is that if that's harassment, then you better be able to live by your own rules and not ridicule and go after other people".
Expect the funny parts to be original.
They listen expecting something funny to happen and then it doesn't.
It surprised me when I read there were 50 types and I wasn't expecting how funny they would be.
And meeting her in person for dinner at Veselka, she is exactly like what I expected: warm, funny and a wonderful conversationalist.
You might reasonably have expected something funny, touching and perceptive, and at least according to its fans, Submarine is all of these things.
