Brüno was a case of diminishing returns, intermittently amusing but not nearly as bracing or funny as Borat—it didn’t help that Brüno was the most thinly conceived of all his Da Ali G Show characters—and the lead-up to Baron Cohen’s new comedy, The Dictator, made it look like he’d boxed himself into a corner.

I dunno what this peckerhead thinks he's doin' but he's about to fall off that bridge.

Auntie Mame had a real zest for life.

The following is what I have learnt by inquiry as to the qualtagh: all are agreed that he must not be a woman or girl, […] . An English lady living in the neighbourhood of Castletown told me that her son, […] called at a house in Castletown on the morning of New Year's Day, and he chanced to be the qualtagh.