From: robgood@bestweb.net   
      
   On Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 9:25:06 PM UTC-4, Howard wrote:   
   > John Halpenny  wrote   
   >   
   > > Of course, modern media makes it easy, and very common,  to repeat   
   > > every joke endlessly until it can't possibly be funny anymore. I enjoy   
   > > humor, but finding something unexpected these days is getting very   
   > > hard.   
   >   
   > That may be a part of what I'm struggling with. I think Armando Iannucci   
   > can make some great political humor, but he stays away from humor directly   
   > involving real people and he is extremely creative. I thought it was   
   > interesting in The Death of Stalin how little he seemed to care about   
   > strictly duplicating the people in Stalin's orbit -- Steve Buscemi gave a   
   > very Buscemi-ish performance.   
      
   Same with Jeffrey Tambor.  They must've decided on a role that would be like a   
   weasel, and Tambor plays that kind perfectly.   
      
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