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 a folly, mining a vein of humor; or if more penetrating, a satire: 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) [Review-Essay] |
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 |
| 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 [Review-Essay] |
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
Buster Keaton's uplifting
New Year's resolutions for 1929
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