In his first two days, Mr. Oliver has shown that a series with good writers and an appealing cast can be incisive and funny even without its star, but it's going to be funny in a more jagged, less personal way.
In a moment when everyone seems to be quoting Baldwin's writing, there is a special pleasure in reading his off-the-cuff words in interviews with journalists and in marvelling at how those words could be even more incisive and funny than the thoughts he worked out carefully on the page.
This weekend brings three of his fine, funny, incisive films.
Our reviewer, Daniel Gross, called "The Big Short" "funny, incisive... and illuminating — full of difficult-to-like underdogs whose vindication and enrichment we end up cheering".
Ditching the aloof irony of his earliest works, he constructs a story that is funny, incisive, profanity-laced and illuminating -- full of difficult-to-like underdogs whose vindication and enrichment we end up cheering.
I'm not a connoisseur of the Crawford literature, but the voice that emerges in Newquist's book is indeed extraordinarily frank, funny, incisive, and insightful about the studio system in which she rose to stardom.
This is one of the many questions asked by comic Chris Rock in this funny, incisive, eye-opener of a documentary about the complex and ideologically fraught state of black women's hair in today's US.
It's the distillation of a distinctive, incisive and brutally funny point of view and most importantly, it's its own thing.
Even at her worst, Sandra is funny and incisive.
