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His “Triangle of Sadness,” is a long, windy, beautifully composed, scabrously funny takedown of Western capitalist excess in its many forms: billionaires, war profiteers, fashion models, social-media influencers and other targets of sometimes eye-roll-inducing obviousness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2022

In that scabrously funny show, hostility bubbled beneath the jokes, just as affection bubbled beneath the meanest digs.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021

Will fame dull the edge of their scabrously funny show about the low life on the Lower East Side?

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2015

From the moment he hugged you hello, he was himself: scabrously funny, theatrically kvetchy, needy and paranoid and observant and discerning—in short, totally crazy, but also crazy good company.

From Slate • May 9, 2012

"Pierre writes to his strengths," Roger Hutchinson noted in the Scotsman, "namely, a vital narrative voice, inventive, freewheeling and scabrously funny."

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2010