FUNNY THINGS HAPPENING開懷大笑
Journeying from the light to the very dark in search of comic relief
踏上一趟從輕鬆惹笑到黑色幽默的喜之劇旅
Comedy spans a wide range of styles – some are laugh-out-loud funny, while some are satirical and clever. It’ll come as no surprise that comedy is the genre that most passengers choose onboard Cathay Pacific flights. After all, it’s always better to start a journey with a good, hearty laugh.
This month we’ve got a range of TV shows and movies spanning the comedy genre – from traditional slapstick to black humour – so you can laugh, cry or cringe.
First: the rom-com. You need a sense of humour to live in one of the most densely populated cities on Earth – and to sustain a relationship in one. It’s what Miriam Yeung and Shawn Yue are trying to do in Love Off the Cuff, one of the biggest Hong Kong films this year. The third instalment of the rhyming trilogy that’s already spawned Love in a Puff and Love in the Buff, Love Off the Cuff is a lighthearted comedy poking fun at Hong Kong expectations of love and marriage, with feisty performances, raunchy dialogue and a giant, shaggy old English sheepdog. Other rom-coms onboard this month include 27 Dresses, Silver Linings Playbook and Love Contractually.
Then there’s the slapstick. There’s no better example than the cinematic reboot of 1990s beach ‘drama’ Baywatch, featuring Zac Efron, Dwayne ‘ The Rock’ Johnson and some very tiny swimwear. Baywatch is this year’s funniest (and, truly, only) entrant into the lifeguard-turned-detective genre that mainly involves tween dream Efron and The Rock taking off their shirts a lot and marching about purposefully.
British comics Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan invented the niche foodie-roadtrip comedy. Following up The Trip and
The Trip to Italy, which took the pair to review restaurants in northern England and Italy, is The Trip To Spain, showing exclusively on Cathay Pacific flights this month. The destination (starting from Santander, in the north, down to swish and sunny Malaga, in the south) might be more exotic, but the banter and bickering are much the same.
Last, there’s dark comedy. New onboard this month is BBC show Bucket, a tragicomic twist on the stock-in-trade family sitcom that sees a dying mother and her uptight daughter take a road trip to tick off items on a bizarre bucket list. The show only has four episodes: an ideal introduction to gallows humour if your go-to comedy is of the lighter variety.