Which critics (of film, art, books) do you like/find funny?

[Medea]

Will be very useful for a class I'm teaching.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

And thanks for those who helped last week with the "personal essay" topic.

Brian Sewell, he's a HOOT

Oh yeah BS has become knowingly ridiculous hasn't he,rather like Nicholas Parsons...

Jon Ronson and Victor Lewis Smith(?) used to make me laugh when they wrote for Time out and Evening Standard (poss. 100 years ago)

AA Gill (The Times)

Caitlin Moran (Times again) sometimes does TV reviews, vvvvv funny

i hate all of them

money for old rope imo

Nancy Banks Smith in the Guardian (that's tv though, too low brow?)
Brian Sewell is fab

same for me. AA Gill makes me laugh and did you read what Caitlin Moran said about Sharon Osbourne yesterday? All true and spot on.

fabulous. I wonder if she gets an email!

We should do a link.

For TV used to love Clive James - don't think he does it any more, does he?

Gill??
Gill?
Gill?

Since when did being an oaf count as being funny?

Gill??
Gill?
Gill?

Since when did being an oaf count as being funny?

god he is a wanker

"the Blonde"

Can anyone do a link to a Brian Sewell review they found particularly good?

Thanks for all these responses, by the way.

I don't think he is an oaf actually. His restaurant reviews are brilliant, and he does fantastic travel articles. And the tv review.

Always has me in stitches, his descriptions are hilarious.

Great way with words imo.

So ner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so's he

(brian sewell)

he writes like he has a bad smell under his nose (BS)

BS by name BS by nature

Another vote for AA Gill on food & travel. Very incisive, very droll and surprisingly objective - IMO, of course. Have to confess to slightly fancying him as well!

Peter Bradshaw, Guardian film critic, v reliable

I had Catilin Moran in the back of my cab once
I like her too, and Miranda Sawyer

aa gills review of the restaurant year ruined our lives:

"FOUR STARS
Bellamy's W1
Hive Beach Café Burton Bradstock, Dorset
Nobu Berkeley W1
Le Gavroche W1
Luciano SW1"

my local beach cafe has now doubled its prices and is full of utter tossers

I think Caitlin will be getting more than an email off La Osbourne. More like a good slapping. I can't defend AA Gill, I know how he comes across with his use of the words "the blonde". he does make me laugh though and I find him quite inciteful. I also like Michael Winner and he's vile

NOT the Burton Bradstock beach cafe!

I also fondly remember the Horse with the Red Umbrella in Dorchester but that's by the by