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Category Archives: Humo(u)r
Another Spectator Competition: Glasto & Glynders
The Spectator recently set another parody competition in which a Waugh entry received honorable mention but once again was not among those published. See previous post. This was described by columnist Lucy Vickery as: … Competition No. 3157 [in which] … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged J C H Mounsey, Parody Competition, The Spectator
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Waugh’s Selfie
In a recent post we mentioned Evelyn Waugh’s appearance in a response to Spectator competition #3148-Selfie. This was set by Lucy Vickery in the 10,000th edition of the magazine: ‘Some famous painters are thought to have slipped small self-portraits into … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged J C H Mounsey, Spectator Competition 3148
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Wanted: Comic Novelists
Writing in the UK-based magazine The Critic, Alexander Larman bemoans the lack of comic novels in today’s literary marketplace. This is in an article entitled “Where is the Waugh or Wodehouse of our time? Comic writing: light distraction or social mirror?” … Continue reading
Posted in Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh, Fiction, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Waugh Family
Tagged Alexander Larman, comic novels, The Critic
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Needing a Laugh? Another List
In a recent issue of The Times, their comedy critic Dominic Maxwell recommends a list of 10 books which he hopes will make readers laugh, as did he when he read them. Here’s the recommendation for one by Evelyn Waugh: … Continue reading
The Loved One Meets the Wuhan Coronavirus
–A blogger posting as “Sapper” traces the influence of Waugh’s writing about Los Angeles in the post war 1940s to what may be the first of several New Yorker essays by English writer and satirist Geoff Dyer, now a resident … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Geoff Dyer, leafly.com, New Yorker, The American Conservative
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Ambrose Silk + Anthony Blanche = Brian Howard
Duncan McLaren has posted another of his profiles of Waugh’s friends as they foregather at Castle Howard in anticipation of a literary festival. The recent postponement of that event may require some adjustment in the arrival of future participants, but … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Humo(u)r, Put Out More Flags
Tagged Brian Howard, Duncan McLaren
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Humor Books in the News
The Spectator has reposted a review from December 2005 by biographer and literary critic Bevis Hillier of the third edition of Ned Sherrin’s Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. He had some reservations about the earlier editions as being overly inclusive but … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Bevis Hillier, Sam Leith, The Spectator
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Nancy Mitford Joins Waugh Pantheon
In his latest posting, Duncan McLaren has Nancy Mitford join Evelyn Waugh’s friends gathering for the imagined reunion at the upcoming Brideshead Festival at Castle Howard. See previous posts. In this entry, Mitford muses over her first two novels (Highland … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Festivals, Humo(u)r, Vile Bodies
Tagged Duncan McLaren, Nancy Mitford
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Waugh News from Slovenia and Sweden
The Slovenian online newspaper Ljubljanske Novice has published a brief review of the recent translation of Scoop into Slovenian (Esklusiva). See previous post. The novel is described as: …a satire on journalism. Waugh wrote the novel in part from the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Expressen, Ljubljanske Novice, Slovenia, Sweden
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Cartoons: Devlin Waugh and Mr Joshua
Two cartoons with connections to Evelyn Waugh have recently come to our attention. The first is a character named “Devlin Waugh” that has appeared in various British cartoon anthologies dating back to 1992. That was when the character was invented, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Humo(u)r
Tagged @Pants, Devlin Waugh, Duncan McLaren
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