He embodies all the qualities that are completely missing from what now goes by the name "punk": ruthlessly critical, relentlessly negative, skeptical, wasted, lively, funny, charming, smart.
What rankles him is talent wasted: the funniest, meanest joke in "Hope" is Ruby's claim that the guy Tasered by the cops deserved it, because he'd been selling copies of Lee's "Chi-Raq".
4.12am GMT 41st over: England 115-4 (Pietersen 14 Stokes 13) This will be the final over before tea, after more time-wasting funny buggers from KP, pulling out as Harris was approaching.
"When you get those police officers who have a bad attitude... you know they are wasting their time, so sometimes it's just funny".
But even while the two argue — as he complains to her about witch trials, and how she's wasting her talent on gossip — he keeps on steadily complimenting her, a drip of sedative, calling her funny, funny, funny.
We've already been treated to a couple of high-profile revivals of Chekhov's great tragicomedy of wasted lives – a very funny and mercurial account directed by Lucy Bailey at the Print Room and a more melancholic take from Jeremy Herrin at Chichester.
Although this soundtrack was not used in the series, the producers felt it was too funny to waste and included it in The Making of Kampung Boy, which was broadcast a week before the start of the series.
At times it seems to actually drain IQ points from its viewers while wasting a talented cast of 'Saturday Night Live' alums, who are all capable of being much smarter and so much funnier".
Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted.
It's funny but also wasted because the gag is deployed too early, and there's nothing yet at stake when Snow falls.
