Beckett's Humour
The Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett , 80 this week, is often thought of as grimly pessimistic, even morbid. Many of his admirers, however, consider Beckett not only one of the greatest but perhaps the funniest of this century's writers. Dr Eric Griffiths , Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge, considers some of Beckett's betterjokes. Producer KEVIN JACKSON