Gin Slobs, Rotting Blair Enliven London Exhibition of Comic Art

Do what Victorian brides were advised to do -- shut your eyes and think of England -- and one of the things that comes to mind, along with wet weather and the monarchy, is a sense of humor.

Britons like jokes, and so have their artists from William Hogarth to the Chapman brothers. That’s the premise of a new show at Tate Britain in London: “Rude Britannia: British Comic Art.”