You really can't make this up, can you? Well Jayson Blair could...[RIMSHOT!]
I guess this is for real, it's in the Financial Times. They cover a Christopher Hitchens stand up comedy routine:
"'The reason I like P.G. Wodehouse and Oscar Wilde is that they teach you to take frivolous things seriously and serious things frivolously,' Hitchens replies. 'It's all a complete farce, you understand, we're born into a losing struggle. In the meantime, I think, I must show some contempt and defiance and the best means of doing that that I know are irony and obscenity.'"
Amazing