10 NOVEMBER 1984, page 28

Trying To Be Funny

Auberon Waugh T his review is being written on the evening of Tuesday, 30 October 1984. In today's Times there are three attempts at pictorial humour. On page one, Calman g iv......

Keeping It Up

Francis King Wilt on High Tom Sharpe (Secker & Warburg £8.95) I n retrospect, it may be seen as prophetic that Tom Sharpe's fifth novel should have been called Wilt. After the......

Touching Joy

Brian Masters Prima Donna Rupert Christiansen (Bodley Head £15) rr he title of this book is apt yet in an odd way misleading, for it suggests a collec - tion of funny stories......