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Yeah, But Is It Funny?

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April 1986, no. 79

What the Dickins! A symposium of the low life by Barry Dickins

Penguin, 179p., $5.95

Yeah, But Is It Funny?

by
April 1986, no. 79

Humour is much too serious business to be left to humourists; it is up to others to find it funny, while the comic goes about his trade with desperate lugubrity, Thus humour that goes out of its way to be funny falls flat: dryness is all.

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