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08-04-2005, 08:21 AM
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Hardy sounds to me like a combination of Robert Benchley's whimsy and James Thurber's literary fancy. There's also a nice sense of moral outrage that peeks through repeatedly: nothing gets a good comic going so well, provided they don't fall over (as Berke Breathed has) into sententiousness. I love Hardy's throwaway lines. On one show a couple of weeks ago he was passing from one issue to another with the sentence, "Or course, rock music was the sound of its age. It began as a mixture of black R&B and white plagiarism..." and I just broke up, in part (I admit) because I've been repeating the same thing for years, but also because it was said so deftly. He really can wield a wicked rapier.
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