"I think it's funny," said Detective Lee, who lives on Staten Island.
"They thought it was really funny," said Detective Lt. Tom Ross, of the Cohoes department.
If he had a spare moment yesterday between the high court ruling, the phone calls from journalists and the funny looks from colleagues, Detective Constable Richard Horton might have appreciated the dreadful irony of his situation.
In The Other Guys, his 5-minute cameo as a farcically reckless NYPD detective proved funnier than Will Ferrell's entire two-hour grandstand.
It can be an adventure story, a fairy story, a fantasy story, a detective story, a funny story, an historical story, ANY kind of story, so long as it's between 750 to 1000 words.
The best illustration of the slogan is "Monk" — the series itself, which is now in its seventh season, and the character Adrian Monk, a sad, annoying, touching, and inadvertently funny obsessive-compulsive former police detective, still played beautifully after all these years by Tony Shalhoub.
As the first book in the series, this savagely funny police procedural introduces a detective who might well be the last honest man in Vigàta, a town that runs fairly smoothly on its corrupt civic foundations, so long as no one rocks the boat.
Presented as a detective story, this funny, original first novel stars a sort of autistic savant, 15 years old, whose grasp of social clues is near zero (he cannot lie or understand a joke) but whose logical faculties are dominant except when overloaded.
I read all of Raymond Chandler's novels and short stories that year because I found them really funny in addition to being great detective stories.
