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Duncan Sarkies - Two Little Boys

Duncan Sarkies - Two Little Boys

(4 stars)5 Feb 2009

BLACK COMEDY Flight of the Conchords fans will take delight in this dark, twisted and idiotically funny novel from fellow Kiwi Duncan Sarkies, a sometime writer on that show. When the feckless Nige knocks down a Norwegian backpacker, he calls his…

Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us

Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us

13 Nov 2008

BLACK COMEDY There’s been a verdant field ploughed by dramatists over the last century about the loss of religious faith. We’ve spent quarter centuries at a time replacing it with other things, from violent nationalistic jingoism to the more…

Tibor Fischer - Good to be God

Tibor Fischer - Good to be God

(4 stars)4 Sep 2008

Tyndale Corbett is worried that 'do-gooding, over-forgiving softies' have given religion a bad name. After stealing a friend's identity and fleeing to Miami to escape his dead-end existence, he wants to con a congregation into believing he's God.

Lindsay Lohan's Black comedy

Celebrity Gossip

24 Feb 2008

Lindsay Lohan has signed up to star in a new movie alongside Jack Black. The 21-year-old actress - who recently caused controversy when she posed nude as Marilyn Monroe for New York magazine - will start shooting comedy 'Ye Olde Times' in…

A Light-Hearted Look at Murder

(4 stars)16 Jul 2007

BLACK COMEDY MARK WATSON A Light-Hearted Look at Murder (Chatto & Windus) (Image: © Emilie Fjola Sandy) Mark Watson has been described as ‘a Will Self with dignity’. Admittedly, it was in his spoof biography for the BBC2 comedy Time…

The Male Gaze

Joe Treasure

(3 stars)9 Apr 2007

BLACK COMEDY At first glance, The Male Gaze is cheerful dick-lit. English bloke, stuck in LA, feeling detached from his wife, meets vivacious American woman for out-of-character adventures. Things soon take a darker turn, as a young girl’s suicide…

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