Definitions.
An intellectual is someone who bangs on about Congreve and Wycherley and Udall and Wilde ... and refuses to admit that Morecambe and Wise, Ken Dodd, Tommy Cooper, and Frankie Howerd were bloody funny.
An academic is someone who writes and lectures about why Wilde and Sheridan and Shaw were funny ... but doesn't get the joke when it's Humph or Horne or Marsden or Kenneth Williams.
An academic is someone who writes and lectures about why Wilde and Sheridan and Shaw were funny ... but doesn't get the joke when it's Humph or Horne or Marsden or Kenneth Williams.