Comedy at Troynovant:
elevations into levity & happiness,
via hijinks & laughter;
listed by Title
These are reviews. You also may find some on-site humor lurking around Troynovant, perhaps in some
essay sailing beyond the horizon, or in a
satire with a point or a quiver-full.
Who among you can laugh and be elevated at the same time?Friedrich Nietzsche
"On Reading and Writing"
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1.7 (1883)
translated by Walter Kaufmann
in The Portable Nietzsche
| Absent-Minded Professor, The | Robert Stevenson / Fred MacMurray, Keenan Wynn | RW Franson |
| Accidental Tryst | Natasha Boyd | RW Franson |
| Adventures of Sally, The | P. G. Wodehouse | RW Franson |
| Allamagoosa | Eric Frank Russell | JM Franson |
| Asimov Laughs Again | Isaac Asimov | RW Franson |
| Augustus Mandrell series (the Commissions) 1. Of All the Bloody Cheek 2. Rather a Vicious Gentleman 3. For Murder I Charge More |
Frank McAuliffe | RW Franson |
| Bellwether | Connie Willis | RW Franson |
| Big Store, The | Marx Brothers | RW Franson |
| Big Trouble in Little China | Carpenter / Russell | RW Franson |
| Blazing Saddles | Mel Brooks | RW Franson |
| Blott on the Landscape | Tom Sharpe | RW Franson |
| Brass God, The | Keith Laumer | RW Franson |
| Bread Overhead | Fritz Leiber | RW Franson |
| Bubba Ho-Tep | Coscarelli / Campbell | RW Franson |
| Calvin and Hobbes, The Complete 1985-1995 |
Bill Watterson | RW Franson |
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Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The |
Mark Twain | RW Franson |
| Christmas in Connecticut | Peter Godfrey / Barbara Stanwyck | RW Franson |
| Cocoanuts, The | Marx Brothers | RW Franson |
| Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up | Dave Barry | RW Franson |
| Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs | Dave Barry | RW Franson |
| Dentist, The | W. C. Fields | RW Franson |
| Derby Day | Hal Roach / Our Gang | RW Franson |
| Do You Wanna Date My Avatar | Jed Whedon / Felicia Day; The Guild | RW Franson |
| Donald's Ostrich [Donald Duck] |
Disney / King | RW Franson |
| Dreamland | Clarence Budington Kelland | RW Franson |
| Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog | Whedon / Harris | RW Franson |
| Electric House, The | Buster Keaton | RW Franson |
| Far Side, The Complete 1980-1994 |
Gary Larson | RW Franson |
| Fatal Glass of Beer, The | W. C. Fields | RW Franson |
| Fawlty Towers, The Complete [scripts] |
John Cleese & Connie Booth |
RW Franson |
| Fawlty Towers: Fully Booked | Morris Bright & Robert Ross |
RW Franson | Fish Called Wanda, A | Crichton / Cleese | RW Franson |
| Fluttering Hearts | James Parrott / Charley Chase, Oliver Hardy | RW Franson |
| Freddy the Pig series | Walter R. Brooks | RW Franson |
| General, The | Buster Keaton | RW Franson |
| Ghost Goes West, The | Rene Clair / Robert Donat | RW Franson |
| Gnarly Man, The | L. Sprague de Camp | RW Franson |
| Golf Specialist, The | W. C. Fields | RW Franson |
| Grantchester Grind | Tom Sharpe | RW Franson |
| Hands Across the Table | Mitchell Leisen / Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray | RW Franson |
| Harpo Speaks | Harpo Marx & Rowland Barber |
RW Franson |
| Here Comes Cookie | Norman Z. McLeod / George Burns, Gracie Allen | RW Franson |
| Homo Saps | Eric Frank Russell | RW Franson |
| It Started with Eve | Henry Koster / Deanna Durbin, Laughton, Cummings | RW Franson |
| Joyleg | Avram Davidson & Ward Moore |
RW Franson |
| Just Go With It | Dennis Dugan / Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler | RW Franson |
| Last Letter, The | Fritz Leiber | RW Franson |
| Let Your Mind Alone | James Thurber | RW Franson |
| Logic Named Joe, A | Murray Leinster | RW Franson |
| Lost in Translation | Rosel George Brown | RW Franson |
| Macbeth [as a failed science-fiction story] |
William Shakespeare | DL Franson |
| Macbeth Murder Mystery, The | James Thurber | RW Franson |
| Minimum Man, The | Robert Sheckley | RW Franson |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Monty Python | S Farrell |
| Music Box, The | Laurel and Hardy | RW Franson |
| My Life and Hard Times | James Thurber | RW Franson |
| Ninotchka | Ernst Lubitsch / Greta Garbo | RW Franson |
| Now Inhale [the Towers of Hanoi game story] |
Eric Frank Russell | RW Franson |
| Office Space | Mike Judge / Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston | RW Franson |
| Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning | Fleischer / Irving Berlin | RW Franson |
| Olympic Champ, The (Goofy) | Disney / Kinney | RW Franson |
| Our Fair City | Robert A. Heinlein | RW Franson |
| Peace Offering, The | Saki | RW Franson |
| Penrod: His Complete Story | Booth Tarkington | RW Franson |
| Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote | Jorge Luis Borges | RW Franson |
| Pogo - Through the Wild Blue Wonder The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Volume 1 [1949-1950] |
Walt Kelly | RW Franson |
| Porterhouse Blue | Tom Sharpe | RW Franson | Princess Comes Across, The | William K. Howard / Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray | RW Franson |
| Proud Robot, The (Robots Have No Tails) |
Henry Kuttner | RW Franson |
| Remarkable Rocket, The | Oscar Wilde | RW Franson |
| Retief [collection] |
Keith Laumer | RW Franson |
| Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The | James Thurber | RW Franson |
| Secret of the League, The | Ernest Bramah | RW Franson |
| Sir Tristram Goes West | Eric Keown | RW Franson |
| Space-Time for Springers | Fritz Leiber | WH Stoddard |
| Stolen White Elephant, The | Mark Twain | RW Franson |
| Telephonic Conversation, A | Mark Twain | RW Franson |
| Time for Delusion, The | Donald L. Franson | RW Franson |
| Topless in Ilium | Wolcott Gibbs | RW Franson |
| Torch | Christopher Anvil | RW Franson |
| Vanishing Private, The [Donald Duck] |
Disney / King | RW Franson |
| Way Out West | Laurel and Hardy | RW Franson |
| We Are Not Amused, Sir Guillaume | Scott Farrell | RW Franson |
| While You Were Sleeping | Jon Turteltaub / Sandra Bullock | RW Franson |
| Writings and Drawings | James Thurber | RW Franson |
| W.S.C. - A Cartoon Biography | Fred Urquhart | RW Franson |
| Yesterday Was Monday | Theodore Sturgeon | RW Franson |
| You Could Look It Up | James Thurber | RW Franson |
[Rome.]
Octavius [about Antony] to Lepidus:
You are too indulgent. Let's grant it is not
Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy,
To give a kingdom for a mirth, to sit
And keep the turn of tippling with a slave,
To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet
With knaves that smell of sweat. Say this becomes him —
As his composure must be rare indeed
Whom these things cannot blemish — yet must Antony
No way excuse his foils when we do bear
So great weight in his lightness.William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra, 1.4.16-25
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson
"Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl"
Rolling Stone #155, 28 February 1974
The Great Shark Hunt (1979)
photo, top right:
Buster Keaton's uplifting
New Year's resolutions for 1929
He avoided with a very acute instinct the monotony that can come from a reiterated comic device and the disaster that comes from crossing the strict line which divides high comedy from awful foolishness. He was sure, wonderfully resourceful, and his style, really based on a lifelong respect for good writing, would have been admirable applied to anything.
Wolcott Gibbs
"Robert Benchley: In Memoriam" (1945)
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