• Personal History: Dead Man Laughing – Zadie Smith writing in the New Yorker
  "My father had few enthusiasms, but he loved comedy. He was a comedy nerd, though this is so common a condition in Britain as to be almost not worth mentioning… Harvey’s idea of a good time was the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son, the grim tale of two mutually antagonistic rag-and-bone men who pass their days in a Beckettian pile of rubbish, tearing psychological strips off each other." Brilliant, perceptive stuff.
  (tags: comics writing culture humour profiles nostalgia)

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