With grand cinematic flourishes — a gyrating camera on a factory floor and at a café table, rapturously colorful visions of romance, and hair-trigger comedy of pratfalls and narrow escapes — Fassbinder exalts the exploits of the hidden heroes of daily life.
Or the flukes that our punk scene triggered alternative comedy and that, more recently, basement-level arts funding created a gap for standup comedy to fill.
The "irreplaceable" British actor Roger Lloyd-Pack, best known for playing Trigger in classic UK comedy Only Fools and Horses, has died.
The "irreplaceable" British actor Roger Lloyd-Pack, known for playing Trigger in classic UK comedy Only Fools and Horses, has died.
Last Thursday, the cast of Only Fools and Horses were saddened to learn of the death of Roger Lloyd Pack, who played dopey road-sweeper Trigger in the hit comedy series.
And the arrival of a single pubic hair triggers a moment of horrific comedy (though the consequences are sadly erased).
Republishers of the hacked material, he wrote, are "helping" the hackers in their apparent campaign to destroy free speech (by demanding that Sony cancel "The Interview," the comedy that ostensibly triggered the hacking).
2. If someone does criticize them, even in a Tweet or on a television comedy show, it triggers this deep and painful lack of self-esteem and they MUST lash out to relieve the pain of the criticism.
The latest bunfight was triggered on Sunday by Foster's Comedy Award chief Nica Burns, who claimed that many shows under the Free Fringe and Free Festival banners are "not good enough" and offer audiences "an absolutely terrible experience".
Who could forget that blue suit though, in a scene which has gone down in comedy history and is made by Trigger's look of sheer bewilderment.
He will be remembered for one of British comedy's most popular running jokes: Trigger's insistence on calling Only Fools and Horses' Rodney "Dave".
