Kemper is something of a comedy obsessive.
As an obsessive stand-up-comedy fan, I know that these actors love to pick on the front row.
Wylie, a sometime Guardian writer, hopes Stand & Deliver will satisfy comedy obsessives and reach out to the casual onlooker, too.
This is exciting news for alternative comedy obsessives such as me – and for a standup scene sadly bereft of raving leftie outrage.
And comedy obsessives still mourn the loss of all scripts for The Lighthouse Keeper, a deeply surreal sketch show that we wrote with another admirer of Swells's work, Chris Morris.
I've written about it as an instant spur to counter-canons (and posted about my own ballot, too), calling attention to its omissions and to my own including of younger directors, of comedy, of obsessive pleasures, and of titanic artists fallen out of fashion.
In 2005 NBC actually tried out a sitcom, "Committed," a romantic comedy about an obsessive-compulsive math genius and his nutty girlfriend.
Strangely, the most inwardly Hitchcockian of filmmakers working at the time wasn't a French director with a critical background, it was one of Hitchcock's colleagues — Frank Tashlin, whose riotous comedies, with their obsessive repetitions of themes and details from Hitchcock's classics, raise the very question of what it is to be Hitchcockian.
Strangely, the most inwardly Hitchcockian of filmmakers working at the time wasn't a French director with a critical background, it was one of Hitchcock's colleagues—Frank Tashlin, whose riotous comedies, with their obsessive repetitions of themes and details from Hitchcock's classics, raise the very question of what it is to be Hitchcockian.
