Forgot another of my favourite comedic characters;
-Marvin The Paranoid Android.
Besides being an inspiration to Radiohead, his excessively maudlin, self-pitying antics remain consistently hillarious throughout The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
'Oh, the Paranoid Android,' he said. 'Yeah, we'll take him.'
'But what are you supposed to do with a manically depressed robot?'
'You think you've got problems,' said Marvin as if he was addressing a newly occupied coffin, 'what are you going to do if you are a manically depressed robot?
And for someone completely different; Macbeth. Someone who can utter solioquies as brilliant (if nihilistic) as;
She should have died hereafter,
There would have been time for such a word,
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way
to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
and departs. It is a tale, told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury, signifiying nothing.
deserves respect.
