I am an agnostic. There is a land of pure delight where saints immortal reign, as the characters sing in Act Five. I believe that ghosts make good theater. I think Hydriotaphia is most influenced by Monty Python, Krazy Kat as I'd mentioned, probably Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, W.S. Gilbert, Dickens, Evelyn Waugh, P.G. Wodehouse. The humor in Hydriotaphia is not very Jewish, though I'd be at a loss to explain what I mean by that.
British humor is sillier.
However, I don't know if they know Tony Kushner the man. I am wondering how you would describe your life away from work. Oh, all my pleasures are guilty ones. I walk a lot, I am an insatiable shopper, I love to decorate and I love to window shop. I am a materialist in the historical and the consumerial sense.