High Seriousness

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• 20 March 2010 at 2:20pm
  Martin says:
  Well, I think JMC might be justified there. It's not exactly Geoff Dyer's (or anyone's) best joke. And Coetzee was never one to bother with such social niceties as laughing politely at a limp joke. But it is very funny footage - far funnier than Geoff Dyer's joke in fact.

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• 21 March 2010 at 12:00am
  Jason Farago says:
  A few months ago I went up to Oxford to see a rare Coetzee reading, and at the signing afterward I told him I always thought he was an underestimated humorist. He looked up, cocked his head slightly, stared at me, and emitted a very, very short "Ha." One of the few major achievements of my short life.

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  • 22 March 2010 at 6:18am
    Ha.

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• 22 March 2010 at 11:54am
  outofdate says:
  Not nearly as excruciating as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucchNOgm2mQ

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• 22 March 2010 at 5:29pm
  Saffy says:
  Good grief, that's awful. "Don't give up the day job", etc

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• 24 March 2010 at 1:13pm
  Anthony Cummins says:
  Dyer gets a laugh eventually (as the Q&A ends - see 18-min mark too though).
  
  http://www.themonthly.com.au/geoff-dyer-adelaide-writers-week-jm-coetzee-p2-2336

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• 27 March 2010 at 9:40pm
  loxhore says:
  If Amis says he is humourless, Coetzee is humourless.

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• 5 April 2010 at 4:00pm
  alex says:
  Surely J.M. could have smiled at least. It's a matter of Coetezee...

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  • 6 April 2010 at 9:49am
    Phil Edwards says: @ alex
    Ha.
    
    (Just barely.)

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• 4 July 2010 at 5:26pm
  loxhore says:
  The Guardian review: only four months behind the internet

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• 24 May 2012 at 8:12am
  Elvis Bego says:
  I wonder if Coetzee's unmoved poise itself isn't a deliberate, comic response?

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