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The author's most ambitious work yet - a brilliant and scabrously entertaining riff on contemporary America. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Against all pharmaceutical odds, he has held on to a substantial portion of his own history and has turned it into the most scabrously honest and essential rock memoir in a long time. ❋ Lou Bayard (2010)

The most scabrously honest and essential rock memoir in a long time. ❋ Post (2010)

Despite some scabrously funny dialogue, "Zack and Miri" can't compete with the best of the Apatow comedies, which have wrung finer variations on the moves Smith pioneered. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Bad SantaDirected by Terry ZwigoffAn antidote to forced holiday cheer, this scabrously funny misanthropic comedy is not for the whole family. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He was gossipy, indiscreet and scabrously funny about his enemies step forward Henry Kissinger and Bill Clinton. ❋ Mick Brown (2011)

But have you thought that perhaps Koons is engaging in legal action as performance art - a scabrously ironic commentary on the impossibility of ownership in today's fragmented, multimedia, endlessly self-reflexive world. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Terence Blacker, in recognition of the syndrome, wrote a scabrously funny novel, ❋ Unknown (2010)

But what a difference 22 years make: Whereas "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History" was a scabrously funny mock-horror film that suggested a nature-documentary collaboration between Monty Python and Luis Bunuel, the new effort feels overweeningly touch-feely and politically correct, with just dashes of humor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Variety calls it "an unpredictable, off-kilter and scabrously funny piece of work" and that "Scott proves more than up to the challenge of a juicy lead role." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dialogue this scabrously funny virtually speaks itself but the central duo offer up sparkling turns. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The real tour de force, though, wasn't even written for the page, but comes transcribed from a spoken word performance - Iraqi poet Mozaffar Al-Nawwab's "Bridge of Old Wonders," an extended diatribe, by turns vitriolic and scabrously funny, that touches on all the collection's major themes. ❋ Unknown (2010)