But what a great show this is - at the same time funny and terribly bleak.
Cunningham is clearly familiar with this specialised, ultra-civilised jungle territory, and he has a good time – funny, knowing, but not too obviously satirical – with rich patrons, artists on the make, experimental shows and rival gallery owners.
As she wrote in a heavily punctuated e-mail message, "Yes, playing another Italian lady, but this time funny, no black eyes, no heroin and, on NBC, no swearing or smoking!!!" As our lunch ended, Ms. de Matteo slipped on her red leather motorcycle jacket, vintage eighth grade.
It may be as daft to expect new tricks from McIntyre as from the Queen herself, but even by his standards, this is an unadventurous set, featuring routines about service stations, snoring spouses and – not for the first time – funny walking.
And so I took a deep breath and gripped my son's hand tighter and picked up the pace, nodding hello when I'd caught up, introducing him to my son (as if he didn't already know his name!), and explaining how I'd moved recently just around the corner from him and that's why our paths were now crossing all the time, funny, isn't it, haha, gotta go.
At times lewd, geeky, disgusting, and most of the time funny, Break.com has managed to pull in an audience of 18 million unique visitors that stay an average of 7.5 minutes each session, says the company.
One of the all time funniest talkers in the history of rock.
Sunday's biggest draw was the 11-time Funny Car champion John Force.
One of the wonders Apatow has worked is to have seemingly put a prism to his life and projected himself three ways, into the big-time funny person, the family man, and the young jokester just starting out.
For encouragement, I could look to the many women in drag racing over the years, from Shirley Muldowney in the 1970s to today's Forces — Ashley, Brittany and Courtney, daughters of the 15-time funny car champion John Force.
Well, at times it was annoying, at times funny.
