Brideshead Revisited is only funny in places, and much better than Decline and Fall.

I've long suspected that Decline and Fall is an insider chronicle pretending to be a comedy - and that's the real joke.

I believe there was a remake recently. The script was somewhat modified, but a common outline remained recognisable.

Waugh gets points for being funny, but I couldn't read the diaries without suspecting that he was an extremely unsympathetic person with more skeletons in his cupboards than was healthy.