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There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a ...

Do the French do irony? Well, was Astérix a Gaul? Obviously they do, and do it pretty well to judge by many of their movies down the decades.

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There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a new musical”.