You expect funny peculiar from Prince, one of the few superstars who still enjoys an old-fashioned forcefield of enigma and hence endures the rumours that enigma tends to spawn.
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.
The first half of the show was pretty much what you might have expected: a funny (mental illness is a much-underused comedy resource) and informative tour of depression, with a little Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) thrown in for good measure.
You expect a funny punch line; you get an obvious answer, made funny solely by subverting the expectation that it would be funny.
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.
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".
