A new gulf appears between the article in question and its previously smitten but now horrified, freeze-framed, bog-eyed potential customer widening, white-faced in the void. Then there's the paralysis on discovering the shocking cost of cute clothing. There's the ellipsis in 'There Are Two Types Of People', Anderson edging, slowly, gingerly into cold water followed by another girl throwing herself eagerly in: the joke lies in what you know happens next. There are so many different devices deployed in the punchlines. Then, quietly, hands clasped around knees in a panel shared with Reality Rabbit but with ever so much grey space around them: Silent panel, close-up, shades lifted: it's quite the beat.
"Somebody hurt your feelings, didn't they?" Reality Rabbit, the tiny white bunny of truth, sympathetically steps in: "I'M A TOUGH B****!!! I DON'T CARE WHAT PEOPLE SAY!! I'LL DO WHATEVER I WA -" When someone hurts Sarah's feelings she shrugs them off when someone hurts her friend's feelings she rides through the wall in a tank.Īlthough you remember I mentioned that matter of honesty? Exuberantly, flamboyantly, wearing a fur coat and shades: One of those variations on a theme involves hurt feelings. Although there is the most excellent extended sequence involving Andersen's conversion from aversion to cats through the necessity of containing her mouse infestation, which grew so bad that she'd find half a dozen of them hanging off the latest sweater she'd stolen. Cumulative jokes are funny when they're variations on a theme and if you pander to what's popular you will lose your signature identity. You also need consistency and conviction.
I saw a bag of Maltesers the other day which boasted that it was resealable: I laughed so f***ing hard. Her comedy is comics' equivalent of Jaffa Cakes or Maltesers. To be fair, that's not so much my fault but Sarah's. I didn't get up until I finished the book. I, for example, read this very first page in bed when I had written not one weekly review so far and desperately needed to crack on. Highly recommended to readers of Allie Brosh's HYPERBOLE AND A HALF, anyone who's already read Andersen's ADULTHOOD IS A MYTH will know that she is mischievous, open and honest and honesty is vital for this sort of comedy for without it you wouldn't connect and so be ticking all those recognition boxes. Perhaps you don't have any hang-ups, neuroses or self-confidence issues: laugh at Sarah's instead! She's positively inviting you to do so in a warm and welcoming way, from inside the most recent big woolly sweater she's stolen. Sarah Anderson is here to make that happen, and hilariously so! Do you want to feel happier about your own life?Ībout your hang-ups, neuroses and self-confidence issues?
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