Rob Brydon (left) and Steve Coogan portray multiple characters, including themselves, in the movie-within-a-film-about-a-book in Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story. I started reading Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman in 1965, and intend to finish it any day now. That is true, and also a joke (a small one) involving a novel about procrastination. Tristram Shand
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