Twelfth Night

... production in particular seems designed to be as unfunny as possible, which given that the play contains some of the Bard's most obscure jokes ("I did impeticos thy gratillity; for Malvolio's nose is no whipstock...") verges on the perverse. While I accept that comedy means something different now from what it used to mean in Will's day, I do incline to the view that he meant them to be laughed ...