![]() ![]() ![]() Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” ![]() His weary, solipsistic couplets are gospel to anyone who has ever nodded along to the truth in Mel Brooks’s observation: “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. The lyricist and singer, who fronted the Manchester band the Smiths during its brief but wildly influential existence from 1982 to 1987, embodies the soul as overly delicate seismograph. Of course, for his fans - many of them more accurately called apostles - that’s the point. Readers predisposed to dislike Morrissey could respond to his “Autobiography” with the same barb Vladimir slings at Estragon in “Waiting for Godot”: “No one ever suffers but you.” ![]()
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