Running Jokes and Repeated Themes
- Each story begins with members of the Provisional IRA or the Ulster Volunteer Force attempting (and failing) to assassinate Kev in order to "avenge (their) noble brothers".
- The start of each story also has a scene in which Kev loses money on a horse-race because the horse becomes incapacitated. This happens in more and more ludicrous ways each time.
- Another running joke sees Kev seemingly commenting on a terrible tragedy in a newspaper, only for it to be revealed that he is reading a sports article.
- The first three stories also featured ongoing arguments between Kev and Froggett, the man assigned to clear up the bodies of everyone that tries to kill Kev.
- Kev often finds out that a friend of his is gay when he goes on a gay-bashing rant.
- The Carrier (The Authority's sentient shiftship/base of operations) is usually introduced in mainstream Authority books with a piece of prose listing its capabilities and/or current location. For example, from The Authority #1: 'The Carrier: Moving downwake through the devachanic realm at a speed of twenty-five dreams per second...' However in books and stories involving Kev a suitably earthier piece of text is used. For example: 'The Carrier: The Death Star can suck its big fat c**k.'
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Famous quotes containing the words running, jokes, repeated and/or themes:
“I tawt I taw a puddy tat a-cweepin’ up on me.”
—Bob Clampett, U.S. animator. Tweety’s running gag, in Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies (animation series)
“Don’t make jokes about food.”
—David Lean (1908–1991)
“Lift not thy spear against the Muses’ bower:
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare
The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower
Went to the ground; and the repeated air
Of sad Electra’s poet had the power
To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shi’ite fundamentalists.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)