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The most hilarious bits, critics say, are his riffs on masturbation and on growing up as a working-class Latino.
His play, about the love lives of a '50s Jewish family and its black maid, riffs on race and death.
Overall, though, both shows are riffs on the same Mary Tyler Moore theme, which after 30 years has become the key slogan of TV feminism: They're going to make it after all.
Critics like McEwan's plot twists (you're not sure if the Christian is psychotic until the end) and theoretical bent (high-minded riffs on Darwin and Keats).
West goes on tremendous name-dropping riffs.