The more sophisticated approach, they suggest, is to accept that we are all on a jolly road trip down the maw of catastrophe, so shut up and drive.
"A Couple of Blaguards," performed through the years by McCourt and his brother, the actor Malachy McCourt, is a musical revue that touches on their Irish boyhood, the early deaths of three siblings, the abandonment by their father and the jolly road from Limerick to New York.
Shirley Blay, who keeps horses at the Jolly Blossom Stables on Station Road, Chobham, told BBC Surrey: "It was a mini-tornado, I can't describe it as anything less.
Jauntily sung by three white American women, a hard-hitting satire was transformed into a jolly, middle-of-the-road pop tune.
The Lincolnshire Echo reported earlier this week that Lincolnshire town council, which owns the copyright to the image, had not been approached by Transworld Publishers before it used the Jolly Fisherman on the jacket of The Road to Little Dribbling.
Mr. Michaels, who turns 63 this month and can be found at his own house across the road, is white-haired and as jolly as Santa, but with a much darker back story and some ambivalence about children.
Moving swiftly on to more jolly June japes, Rose Tremain wins the Orange prize with The Road Home while Joanna Kavenna wins the 2008 Orange award for new writers with Inglorious.
Three hundred days on the road - you go to North Korea - it's jolly hard to be vegetarian much less a vegan [laughs].
With its bulbous shape, doorless sides, removable surrey top, wicker seats and pastel color palette, the Jolly looks more like an amusement-park ride than a road-legal car.
Many roads in this drama led back to Sergei Kislyak, the jolly and charismatic figure, who up until July 2017 was the Russian ambassador to Washington.
HOLLYWOOD — Tom LaBonge, a jolly and energetic Los Angeles councilman, steered his city car along the perilously narrow roads curving through the Hollywood Hills, turned a corner and hit the brakes.
