Paul Rudd is mainly the straight man in this wan, sentimental, occasionally very funny comedy.

NEWYORKER: Role Models

And the poll - he has several ads like this, and they're actually very funny to watch.

NPR: Richardson's Candidacy and Goodling's Testimony

Somewhere inside the sound and fury that have shrouded this project is a short, gross, and very funny series of sketches, lightly knotted together into a modern picaresque.

NEWYORKER: Borat

As the oldest of his two sons (David Krumholtz, who's very funny) points out, other people live their lives like this, so why shouldn't the Abramowitzes?

CNN: Review: 'Slums of Beverly Hills' on-target with comic realism

If that sounds a funny sort of privatisation, it is all the funnier because seemingly nobody, unless this is a very well-kept official secret, knows how the savings bank is going to operate from 2007 onwards, even while it is still under state management.

ECONOMIST: The future of Japan's postal savings bank remains a mystery