He also wanted a place to stick just about every joke he could think of without regard to it's quality. He wanted to write the De Rerum Comoedia , but probably felt it would be a little boring and instead tried to build a story around the idea. The result is that neither subject seems to get proper attention. It's a quick read and contains more one liners that you can shake a rubber chicken at, but fails to be 'wet your pants' funny at any point. Even more so with the comedian quotes at every chapter.
Satire is tragedy plus time.
Tragically I was an only twin. Peter Cook Overall, I liked the book. It made me think about comedy and thinking is good occasionally. It is certainly a matter of taste . After all, I don't know why, but I find almost anything to do with Mr. T extremely amusing.