The slums in Africa are 100 times worse than you can possibly imagine from watching a Comic Relief video.
Read the full review Sometimes it's obvious that you're watching a comic enter the big league.
Nothing could be quite so odd as watching a comic opera about betrothal in a country that might be about to seek a divorce.
The idea for Archie came to Osborne watching a comic ramping up a mediocre impression of Charles Laughton as the hunchback of Notre-Dame one afternoon at the crumbling Chelsea Palace of Varieties in London.
The presidential box where Lincoln sat with his wife, Mary, watching a comic play as John Wilkes Booth put a bullet through his skull overlooks the stage and has itself become a permanent set, draped with flags and decorated as it was that evening.
I remember watching a comic doing an extended, blatantly homophobic bit once, and another comic I was on the bill with remarked to me, "he wouldn't do it if they didn't laugh".
That huge No. 1 total fell below prerelease expectations of ticket sales totaling about $190 million, an indication that some moviegoers were either not in the mood to watch a violent comic book caper or worried about theater safety after the carnage in Aurora, Colo.
It's a kind of video sketchbook that lets you watch an individual comic intelligence at work.
