Who was it who said, of literary criticism I think, “we murder to dissect”?
Who said that writing about music was “dancing like architecture”?
Well in the Guardian Guide on Saturday, Tim Jonze wrote about the comedian Josie Long. He said ‘you do have to be there’ to appreciate her sketch where she just repeats the phrase “Who here, out of everyone here, likes Nelly?”
I don’t need to be there. Just reading that phrase made me laugh out loud and thinking it still puts a big silly grin on my face.