In one typically funny Monty Python sketch, author Oscar Wilde walks into a drawing room and says something pithy to the Prince of Wales: "Your Highness, there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." Bystanders laugh for an extended time in a sycophantic manner.
Wilde says something else and, again, he evokes laughter. Once again, Wilde says something similarly inane, but suddenly he faces stunned silence. The Python troupe apparently was poking fun at an incident in Wilde's career, but I thought of the skit in the context of Donald Trump and the midterms.
