“It is whackily comic with irreverent overtones and moments of quite startling seriousness.”

“He is opinionated, irreverent, sometimes bombastic and often contradictory.”

“Just as important, they are all bright and lively people and seem to blend a boundless enthusiasm with an irreverent sense of humour.”

“Yes, journalists may undermine elitism and establishment power in ways which are sometimes raucous and irreverential.”

“She is especially irreverential about the occupants of the Palace, past and present.”

“Instinctively irreverential, he used both works to attack the conventionally religious, socially conservative figures who then dominated philosophy at Oxford.”