While it lacks the social science of Observe & Report (a film that has become ever more timely), it is a character-and-plot driven laugh-fest which puts story ahead of arbitrary punchlines and improv riffs.
Devil, we are nevertheless compelled once again by a thoughtful reader of Dostoevski to turn this space over that uncanny character for some timely remarks.
A bit of real world history here: Patsy Walker was a Timely Comics (a Marvel precursor) character from back in the 40s.
He must be a political refugee, like most of the characters in this timely, entertaining novel about postcolonial migrants trying to survive in Margaret Thatcher's Britain.
WASHINGTON — In 1995, Newt Gingrich, then the speaker of the House, failed in his attempt to eliminate federal financing for public broadcasting, thwarted by the timely appearance of "Sesame Street" characters and by panicked supporters who filed petitions and flooded Congressional offices with calls.
Comical in an utterly black sense were, of course, the chief characters in Jamie Roberts's timely and necessary The Jihadis Next Door.
"It's obviously been well-documented that I have had some tough times personally off the field," he said with considerable understatement after potentially the most significant and timely innings of a long and character-building career.
Which prompts a timely question: why are the concepts and characters of Nineteen Eighty-Four so culturally iconic, so deeply embedded, while the equally great Swastika Night is unheralded in the pantheon of classic dystopian novels?
But Timely, the predecessor to Marvel, regularly had its characters destroy Japanese and Germans, who were usually portrayed in crude stereotype.
It concerns AIDS, which has doomed the title character, and in its original incarnation a timely thrum must have underscored the play's visceral punch.
It is a timely reminder of a writer exotic in appearance and character whom Mr Greene describes as "Britain's outstanding woman poet of the 20th century".
