Line #5 Funny/NakedLunch


1	!!The Novel
2	* The novel contains many [[BlackComedy darkly humorous]] scenes, e.g.
3	** Dr. Benway performing CPR using a toilet plunger.
4	** Dr. Benway and Dr. Browbeck have a scalpel fight in the operating room
5	** A [[ButchLesbian lesbian body-builder]] dressed as the Arc de Triomphe sings "The Star Spangled Banner" as the US ambassador to Interzone gives an official speech.
6	** The County Clerk's over the top racist rants, and Lee's efforts to win the Clerk over by parroting his views.
7	** Salvador Hassan O'Leary's faux Texas oil man persona.
8	-->'''Hassan''':I'm just a bloomin' old cancer.
9	** The Great Slashtubitch: proud owner of Steely Dan and a drag queen that would give [[Film/PinkFlamingos Divine]] a run for her money.
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11	!!The Film
12	* The film is often funnier than the book, partly because of Creator/PeterWeller's wonderfully deadpan performance as Bill.
13	* Kiki begins his conversation with Bill by asking him if he's a "faggot" in the most casual tone of voice possible.
14	-->'''Bill:''' ''[long, awkward pause]'' Not by nature, no. I wouldn't say..."faggot."
15	-->'''Kiki:''' I'd like you to meet a friend of mine. He specializes in sexual ambivalence.
16	-->'''Bill:''' ''[coughs]'' Sexual ''ambulance'', didja say?
17	-->'''Kiki:''' ''[moves away, revealing the horrific creature sitting next to him]''
18	-->'''Bill:''' [[DullSurprise ...My god.]]
19	-->'''Kiki:''' He's called Mugwump.
20	* Bill's laconic admission (in the style of a bad pulp novel) of his own sexuality:
21	-->'''Cloquet:''' I've seen you around, but I had no idea you were queer.\
22	'''Bill:''' Queer?\
23	'''Cloquet:''' ''[leers]'' I saw you arrive with those three Interzone boys. What an entrance. You all looked very... familiar with each other.\
24	'''Bill:''' ''[gulps]'' Queer. A curse. Been in our family for generations. The Lees have always been perverts. I shall never forget the unspeakable horror that froze the lymph in my glands when the baneful word seared my reeling brain: "I was a homosexual." I thought of the painted simpering female impersonators I'd seen in a Baltimore nightclub. Could it be possible I was one of those subhuman things? I walked the streets in a daze like a man with a light concussion. I would've destroyed myself. And a wise old queen -- Bobo, we called her -- taught me that I had a duty to live and bear my burden proudly for all to see. Poor Bobo came to a sticky end--he was riding in the Duc du Ventre's Hispano-Suiza when his falling hemorrhoids blew out of the car and wrapped around the rear wheel. He was completely gutted, leaving an empty shell sitting there on the giraffe-skin upholstery. Even the eyes and the brain went, with a horrible ''schlupping'' sound. The duke says he will carry that ghastly schlup with him to his mausoleum.
25	* One word: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QJWOLMerE8 Benway!]]" (warning: clip is NSFW).
26	* Bill's deadpan delivery of the infamous "talking asshole" anecdote from the novel is equal parts hilarious, disgusting, and unsettling.

Context Funny / NakedLunch