Sterne continued his comic novel, but every sentence, he said, was “ written under the greatest heaviness of heart .” In this mood, he softened the satire and recounted details of Tristram's opinions, eccentric family and ill-fated childhood with a sympathetic humour, sometimes hilarious, sometimes sweetly melancholic — a comedy skirting tragedy.

There were positive reviews from The Nation, (" the best novel to come out in years "), the New York Herald Tribune (" A wild, moving, shocking, hilarious, raging, exhilarating, giant roller-coaster of a book ") and The New York Times, (" A dazzling performance that will outrage nearly as many readers as it delights ").

* The Lively Lives of Crispin Mobey ( by ' Gabriel Quyth ') ( 1988 ): " A novel of the hilarious chronicle of the exploits of an all-too-zealous missionary.

Spider Robinson reviewed the novel favorably, declaring that although Sheckley deliberately broke most of the rules for successful storytelling, Options was " hilarious.

New York Times reviewer Edmund Fuller called his 1958 novel, Purely Academic, " bitterly hilarious ," " sadistically satirical ," and " funny and appalling.

The book is a pastiche of the classic Spanish novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes with many moments of hilarious comedy, but also offers reflection on matters such as life after a dictatorship, Communism, and the Catholic faith.

He may have been the first authentic " charismatic " pro-wrestler, who, along with almost equally charismatic Bobby Davis, would use cruel, yet hilarious, put-downs of his opponents, such as " After I get through with him, he'll be back driving a garbage truck where he belongs.

A mysterious and extremely tenacious Wulfenbach soldier who first appeared rescuing the Baron from an airship accident ( breaking almost every limb in his body in a series of more and more hilarious accidents, mishaps and enemy attacks whilst doing so ).

Time Out London stated, " Unsatisfactory as a whole, the film is hilarious and tense in bits " and noted " while writer / director Higgins uses almost every stock thriller device.

" Although he praised the episode's setpiece, Nate Boss of Project-Blu gave the episode an overall negative review, writing: " With a hilarious take on movie theaters to start the episode, the duldrum of the rest can be forgiven ... almost.

The resulting works were musically eclectic, melodic, and utterly hilarious ; every single one became an international success.

He became a household name in the U. S. largely as a result of his hilarious portrayal of the ' country bumpkin ,' " Cousin Ernie " on three episodes of I Love Lucy.

A recurring guest star from the show's launch ( and later a regular cast member from 1975 ) Tim Conway provided hilarious, unrehearsed bits to sketches that became known to the staff as " Conway's Capers ".

Having appeared in three episodes of The Avengers in the 1960s, he eventually became well known for portraying upper class characters typically caught in hilarious situations.

He grew up in South London and was educated at Strand School, where he became known for hilarious impressions of the headmaster and several of his staff.

Only 28 years old when he started hosting, Eubanks became widely popular for bringing a youthful energy to daytime television, pressing contestants into giving embarrassing and hilarious answers.

The same year, her Telugu film Kshana Kshanam directed by Ram Gopal Verma, became a big hit and Sridevi won the Filmfare Telugu Best Actress Award and the Nandi Best Actress Award for her role as the hilarious victim of a heist gone wrong.

One of Mercer's trademark comedy routines on 22 Minutes was Talking to Americans, in which he would travel to a major American city or institution and conduct on-the-street interviews with average Americans regarding Canadian politics, the weather, etc., often with hilarious results as the subject's ignorance about Canada was illustrated.

Despite her widely celebrated success, and hilarious tales of how she used to disguise herself to mask her identity while reviewing, she is quite open about why she stopped.

Still spiraling off Violent Shit ’ s unexpected success, Andreas created his homage to the undead with Zombie 90-Extreme Pestilence ( 1990 ), the English version of which is regarded by some genre fans to have the most hilarious dubbing ever put to celluloid.

Lately, the viral potential of funny, hilarious or upbeat infomercials uploaded to YouTube for example has proven to be an important contributor to infomercial success.

Budke described the segment as " one of the most refined Simpsons pop references ever " and knows " people that consider this the point that they realized The Simpsons could be both highly hilarious and highly intelligent.

The New York Times highly recommended the film, and reviewer Janet Maslin wrote " This hilarious, good-hearted spiritual descendant of The Producers is a comic coup for Mr. Martin.

" The Guardian observed it is " odd to mix knob gags with highly serious assertions " but thought it works because " Atzmon writes with so much style and his gags are so hilarious.

They are amused by the unfamiliar concept of a fortune cookie but, after several hilarious attempts at translating the fortunes into Chinese, come to the conclusion that the cookies contain not wisdom but " bad instruction.

Ology has been cited by The American Spectator, The Austin Chronicle, and MTV News. In April 2012, Geek Sugar highlighted Ology for its " hilarious, tongue-in-cheek news stories, viral videos, and trends ," and Business Insider featured the website in December for its commercial potential as a social media website.

Writer Patrick Ferris said he has " a mass appeal in the sense that any audience between the age of 2 and 102 are captivated by his vaudeville antics, hilarious lyrics and animated guitar playing ... His voice is a cross between Popeye the Sailor and a Didgeridoo and the plinkity plink of his VERY worn National steel guitar, sounds like a wind up jack in the box.

( The blonde glimpsed in Rome is later revealed to be a decoy Buffy, set up by Andrew Wells, who had researched the history between Angel, Spike and The Immortal, and thought the idea would be " hilarious ".

When Indy is asked by Walter Donovan to translate the tablet, he makes a hilarious mistranslation, causing Donovan to throw him outside, ending the game.

Influenced by too much wine and a documentary on the rapidity of the American postal service, he goes to hilarious lengths to speed his mail deliveries aboard his bicycle.

Thom Jurek writes that " While many intellectuals have made wild pronouncements about Marclay and his art – and it is art, make no mistake – writing all sorts of blather about how he strips the adult century bare by his cutting up of vinyl records and pasting them together with parts from other vinyl records, they never seem to mention that these sound collages of his are charming, very human, and quite often intentionally hilarious.

Zero also appears in the May 11, 1949 Toast of the Town broadcast hosted by Ed Sullivan, doing a hilarious and crazy routine as only he could.

She summed up by saying, "( K3G is ) a well made film, with some magical moments ( hilarious and weepy ) and possibly the world's best looking family!

It is in these combined roles that he adopts the voice of Herodotus, whose mythological / historical accounts of rape and counter-rape as the cause of war were considered hilarious by contemporaries.

received a range of responses ; it won the award for best fringe show at the Adelaide festival and was described by one reviewer as " often hilarious ", but was savaged by other critics as being " gratuitously offensive ".

A Hat Full of Sky has been described as “ compelling and hilarious ,” as well as " finely tuned " by Audiofile.

" As of 2004, Seth was named one of the 10 best current characters by Zap2it, writing: " The gangly Adam Brody effortlessly delivers his hilarious and sweetly sarcastic lines.

He has remarked that " it's so hilarious because it's been propelled by so little ...

In fact, At Liberty is in a class by itself, a biting, hilarious and even touching tour-de-force tour of Stritch's career and life.

The basic conceit of the sketch was that the small New South Wales south coast town of Ulladulla was heavily populated by famous Australian sporting and show business identities, that many of these celebrities owned businesses in the area or worked in various official capacities in the town, and that all were regularly involved in hilarious and often ribald misadventures.

Dominic Cavendish of The Daily Telegraph said " Ma was played with hilarious gruffness and rolling pin obduracy by Wendi Peters.

Filming was facilitated by the cinema having a balcony from which aerial shots could be taken, and the apparent willingness of the management to subject their patrons to some hilarious ( and ultimately harmless ) pranks.

shows in Puerto Rico, among them " Ay Bendito ", " Que Pueblito ", directed by Elin Ortiz, " La Hora de Oro " with Hector Marcano, puppeteering two hilarious magpies at the same time, called Kilate & Pirita, among others.

" He was " eloquent in every way ... a vigorous and expressive poet ... a writer of stories, a dramatist ... grotesquely hilarious ... an inspiring teacher of art, loved and admired by his students.

The group second single was the playful track called “ Hahaha !”, accompanied by a hilarious video where the trio dresses up as foul police officers.

His accomplished and trademark sardonic lyrics have been compared by some to Bob Dylan, and his poetry is known to examine overlooked aspects of everyday life as well as chance and often hilarious juxtapositions.