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Latin in Mainstream TV Series and The Newly-Thriving Mass of Ages January 28, 2021 MANHATTAN — Latin is everywhere. It might be in a joke by Icelandic comedian Ari Eldjárn in “Pardon My Icelandic” — his Netflix special released on Dec. 2 — or in the epic series “Barbarians” (Netflix) and “Romulus” (Sky Italy) — both filmed in Latin — which premiered late last year. In recent months, we might have consumed the highest doses of mainstream Latin in ages. And when anyone hears a simple note of this melodious language, it immediately prompts Gregorian chants’ images...

“Isn’t that an oxymoron?” my father-in-law said when I told him I was reviewing Icelandic comedian Ari Eldjárn. I told him the assumption that Nordic people are humorless was unfair and my husband agreed with me, citing an incident when he was at a hostel in Budapest and an Icelandic man drunkenly ripped a toilet straight off the bathroom wall. Eldjárn’s comedic antics on Pardon My Icelandic are nowhere near as Apatow-esque, but instead dwell in the strange and laughable subtleties between Icelanders and their Scandinavian neighbors. While he has clear love for his ...

(...and makes a doll's house comedy club) John-Luke Roberts has recorded a new comedy album, It Is Better, which he hopes to release on vinyl. The show – his ninth – was designed to be performed without a live audience, and features its own score. Plans to record a live LP were scuppered by the pandemic, but Robert explained: ‘I realised my favourite comedy records didn’t have an audience. ‘So I sat down thinking of albums like Sir Henry at Rawlinson End and Ivor Cutler’s Dandruff and grew more and more excited at the prospect. Without an audience, a comedy record can achieve a st...