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Ricky Gervais live in Dublin review: Stale familiarity of shock humour wears thin
The Irish Times 27 Mar 2025
Ricky Gervais. 3Arena, Dublin. ★★☆☆☆ ... As support act Sean McLoughlin acknowledges early in the night, if you’ve bought a ticket for the gig, you’ve probably picked your side of the debate about the validity of shock humour ... READ MORE ... .
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Jane Austen wrote six novels. Here's how we rank them
RTE 25 Mar 2025
Opinion ... Jane Austen turned 250 this January and remains a mainstay of popular culture ... These are ... (4) Northanger Abbey (1818) ... There’s tension and suspense, intrigue, humour and a few shock moments, all balanced in an expertly crafted narrative voice ... .
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‘We live five miles from Brighton – but haven’t seen a postman in six weeks’
AOL 19 Mar 2025
On local message boards, residents rely on gallows humour, announcing with “great excitement” of having had post delivered to their house that morning, to the shock and envy of others.
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Circuit des Yeux on the Poop Jokes of Scott Walker
The Quietus 18 Mar 2025
It was hard for me not to initially ingest his use of scatological humour as boy-ish – gendered, immature and coming from a privileged frivolous place ... Both instances would end in a shock equally filled with humour and sadness.
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