What is so funny about absurd nonsense elephant jokes? I can think of twenty adjectives - fatuous, pointless, absurd. He said U.S. authorities were making allegations that were "completely absurd and unfounded". "Time" also criticized the film's score as absurd and anachronistic. The notion of the Absurd has been prominent in literature throughout history. Richard subsequently released a statement maintaining that the allegations were "absurd and untrue". Aspects of the notion of the Absurd can be found in "The Plague". Conflictors may take for granted as truths what their partners may dismiss as absurd. Asher, believing the argument was "so absurd", responded with incredulity. This view constitutes one of the two interpretations of the absurd in existentialist literature. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd. Surautomatism is any theory or act of taking automatism to its most absurd limits. The setting is, by the admission of its own writers, deliberately absurd and hyperbolic. It is a parody of romantic comedies infused with Showalter and Wain's absurd approach. The plays of the Theatre of the Absurd parallel postmodern fiction in many ways.