Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.

The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

Funniness is the wild card in the pack.

[On Watermelon Man:] ... it is impossible to look at this film without its giving you a share in its insane bad taste, which is rather companionable of it.

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

Great comedy calls large matters into question.