Comedy can surface at unexpected moments, Hills notes, recalling what he believes was the festival's most
uncomic moment: "Jerry Sadowitz being punched by a member of the audience after making anti-French remarks during a St.
The prominence of this rootless, inorganic intellectual, [77] variously referred to as "tristo," a "diavolo," and someone adept at "uccellare gli uomini," thereby calls attention to an essentially
uncomic aspect of Mandragola, insofar as the play is entirely in the hands of a figure with no clear connections to the community and who preempts the open spaces of the city's theaters by controlling the information disseminated therein.