The American "Coupling" has an appealing enough cast and a less annoying Jane; it also has a far less funny Jeff, which is not a good omen.
Yes, he was fascinating and brilliant when we first met him, but 35 years on he's no more insightful, and he's far less funny, than the blabbering, twitching neurotic he was in 1968.
But in a far less funny part of town, Spencer is crying in the car as she tries to put makeup on.
He felt that first half of the episode was "tightly written and very funny", but the second half "waned a bit, with less than stellar conclusions to the stories and far less funny bits".
Pro stock drivers get far less attention than funny car drivers (like John Force) or top fuel drivers (like Tony Schumacher), but Nobile is drawing big crowds at events.
That charm helped the warmhearted movie, which is far less cohesive or funny than "La Cage aux Folles," become a hit in France.
I think, though, that the follow-up chats, in which I would apologise for being shirty, and aim to be more nuanced and less emotional, were far more constructive, far more considered, even if less funny.
Less funny by far – falling through this gap between principle and practice are the 1,000 patients who die from organ failure each year, and the 8,000 others left to wait in limbo.
By contrast, as you watch "Portnoy's Complaint" (1972), in which Richard Benjamin unloads religious guilt and erotomaniacal escapades on a psychoanalyst, you can't help thinking that you're watching a less adroit, less funny (though far more risqué) version of something you've already seen elsewhere.
Someone who is a "regular" in your life, as much a part of your life as landscape, and without whom life would be less funny, less fun, far less beautiful.
A 2009 study found that conservatives actually found Colbert funny, but they were far less likely to get that the joke was on them.
