Ineluctable modality of the risible
I know it’s bad form to laugh at those who have tumbled headlong and humiliated into the rank dankness of the gutter. But when the high-and-mighty has tripped over his own sanctimony, hypocrisy, and bloated ego, well, all bets are off. In “Rush to Recovery,” Harry Shearer administers a therapeutic dose of cruelty.