Manhood for Amateurs is a resolutely enquiring, robust and funny exploration into the tricky business of being a passionate amateur man – the nerd, geek and fanboy in all of us guys.
Whatever the cause, the actor turns away from the robust, biting, or funny thing that made him a success and dons a suit of misery and woe.
Of the three boys, I preferred Mr. Tabisel, who, when he was somewhat smaller and cuter, starred on Broadway in "Big" but is nonetheless robust and rather funny as Oscy, a sex-crazed, baby-fatted frat-boy-to-be.
It is an approach that he used with much success in his three novels and, most notably in his last book, "How Proust Can Change Your Life," a funny, robust and joyous argument for negotiating the daunting thickets of "Remembrance of Things Past".
The attraction of FA theory is that it purports to capture the sense that we ought to be amused at certain things because they are funny, as robust realism has it, while agreeing with dispositionalism that funny cannot be understood except by way of human response and sensibility: our sense of humor.
Social interaction on the site is often robust and blunt, and sometimes funny.
They were unsentimental, waspish, robust, some of them were even funny.
From start to finish he's the archetypal "safe pair of hands" comedian, his delivery robust yet nonchalant, his stories consistently funny.
It's a funny quip that has enjoyed a robust afterlife, mostly because generations of quasi-self-deprecating rock journalists can't stop quoting it.
And guess what: they were just as funny, would have gotten just as robust and raucous a response, and in the process would have rewarded his artistry.
