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Josh Wolk
Josh Wolk is a senior writer at EW and the author of ''Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desparate
Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor''
The uninvolving plot in this Douglas Adams-wannabe sci-fi tale concerns two vaudeville comics caught in a terrorist scheme while they look for intergalactic gigs. It's just a setup (and not a very good one at that) that allows Idle to use the pair's robot companion to ponder the meaning of humor. Shouldn't an ex-Python know that nothing is less funny than analyzing comedy? Yet he indulges in witheringly banal musings like why the letter k is comical and whether a pie in the face would get a laugh if no one were there to see it. (Nope.) And this book isn't funny whether you read it or not. C-
Posted Oct 01, 1999
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