Clive James never failed to get a joke. Or to go on to make a better one. This wasn’t because he was overly competitive: rather, like Dr Johnson, whom he often quoted, he believed that conversation obliged us to keep the ball in the air.
from Pocket https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/nov/30/for-clive-james-a-sense-of-humour-was-just-good-manners
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