And Georgian-era Londoners got early versions of all three in the rude, lewd, devilishly funny prints of Thomas Rowlandson.
One of the nice things about this lewd and funny hit comedy is that it springs its wildest, most scabrous jokes from a recognizable male dilemma.
The funniest of the lot is hefty Melissa McCarthy (from "Mike & Molly"), a deadpan lewd comic, proud of her weight and alarmingly active in throwing herself at people.
"No one even sends me stuff that lewd on Grindr!" .
She digs deep into the role of a funny, lewd woman who has been too careless ever to put anything together for herself.
The Advertiser called the episode "outrageously lewd" and "hysterically funny".
This performance isn't your typical, bag-of-tics Oscar grab: O'Brien is very funny, often lewd and only intermittently heroic.
A British wireless company, for example, recently started something called SeeMeTV, allowing phone users to submit videos of themselves doing funny, often lewd things.
The Paperboy and At Any Price showed flashes of a burgeoning sense of self-awareness in the former High School Musical poppet, but it's Nicholas Stoller's lewd, lairy and very funny comedy Bad Neighbours (Universal, 15) that heralds his fully formed arrival.
When Mr. Fuentes stops trying to italicize his hero's villainy and instead focuses on the narrative of his story, we're able to stop trying to figure out just how historically accurate his Comandante might be, and enjoy his creation as a compelling fictional personage — by turns arrogant, funny, pompous, lewd, self-absorbed and self-deluding.
