Not one of the funny ones - my takeaway is that we observe all the characters in an unhappy state and by the end, they're all mainly worse off - partly thanks to Pauline Collins' spiritualist. Quite bleak, in an ironic and knowing way.
Here and here. As to how it crops up in the Eric Lax book - I can't tell you, as the film's missing from the index! (A sign it's overlooked and unloved.)
"Grave Assai' guitar solo from Fandango by Boccherini against New Orleans jazz from Benny Goodman and Tom Sharpsteen and his Orlandos, Mozart and a dash of Donizetti ('Lucia de Lammermoor') at the Old Vic.
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