As Beckett aptly states, "nothing is funnier than unhappiness". Critchley's talk explores the dark humour of Samuel Beckett through a screening of his one-and-only experiment with cinema: 'Film' (1965) starring Buster Keaton. Critchley focuses on 'the agony of perceivedness' at the core of Beckett's work and on the way in which this avoids Hamlet's famous dilemma. As Critchley shows, humour is much more tragic than tragedy. Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York. He is the author of many books, most recently 'Very Little...Almost Nothing' (Routledge, Second Edition, 2004) and 'Things Merely Are - Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens' (Routledge, 2005). The German translation of his book on humour 'Über Humor' was published in 2004.