When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

Television audiences are ruthless - look what happened to 'The Killing.'

Pain is funnier than love.

Sky1 continues to bring the best from the US with Weeds mirroring its emphatic US reception from audiences and critics alike, Threshold exhibits the potential for an X-Files-style cross-over success and returning series Nip/Tuck and The 4400 are set to captivate audiences,

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.