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Article: 'The Love Guru': Mike Myers Achieves Unenlightenment
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 19, 2008
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Mike Myers isn't the Antichrist, exactly. But he is anti-comedy -
- if one believes comedy ought to be smart, new, surprising, or,
yes, funny. This isn't an accusation. It's been Myers's shtick for a
long, long time: Jokes that don't work, bad jokes, lame jokes, jokes
that are 40 years old and jokes told by characters we should be
feeling sorry for -- the chronically adolescent hero of "Wayne's
World," for instance, or the deluded hipster of "Austin Powers."
Losers lacking Chaplinesque pathos. Misshapen social cogs without
the virtue of an interesting angle.
In short, Mike Myers's oeuvre is about sympathy laughs, although