But the funniest bits were funny for everyone — the villain saying the line "Maniacal laugh!" instead of maniacally laughing — because absurdism, done right, cuts through the age gap.
We were safe, we thought, as we greedily wolfed down Creme Egg after Creme Egg, laughing maniacally.
The same might be said of Gordon Brown's premiership because, alas, it looks as if many of the unappetising things said about him before he became prime minister are true (and, as Mr Brown's luck would have it, they were said again in a documentary series starring his predecessor that began airing this week).It is true, or seems to be, that Mr Brown is maniacally ambitious but politically timid.
Mr Tendulkar, a curly-haired and diminutive Mumbaikar, has long been known as the "God of cricket" in a country almost maniacally obsessed with the game.
This proved he was "maniacally" opposed to abortion, said the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a windbag who "had uttered his first full sentence at the age of 14 months and hadn't stopped since".These, as it happens, are scenes from "Supreme Courtship", an amusing novel by Christopher Buckley.
Torrens Knight, photographed on his way out of court maniacally yelling abuse at relatives of the dead, was one of four men given life sentences for the attack in 1995.
His Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now (1979) maniacally declares that he loves "the smell of napalm in the morning," but Duvall convinces the audience of Kilgore's compassion for his own soldiers.
Did you think a pack of traders might gallop through reception, laughing maniacally as they threw burning banknotes in the air, quaffing champagne, and brutally thrashing the ornamental paupers that they keep on diamante leashes — and you, Russell, would damningly catch them in the act?
Constant interruptions from the sweet but maniacally effusive waiters began to turn the meal into an ordeal.
At one point Partridge goes on an extended riff bellowing his catchphrase "aha" maniacally over and over – perhaps this is a veiled expression of the comedian's feelings about the character?
Even in the middle of the night, the thick, velvet silence is occasionally torn by the Doppler effect of a motorbike maniacally approaching and then departing on a nearby main road.
