Amy Winehouse, put simply, has been a gift to society. Not only is she blessed with a mindblowing, unique voice, but she has character and attitude. Her daily affairs are the stuff of endless tabloid coverage, and its easy to see why; she is completely mesmerizing.

Also, her boyfriend is hilarious.

Not hilarious in a way a comedian might be hilarious. Nor in the way a completely pathetic person might be hilarious (OK, maybe a little bit hilarious that way).

Really, Blake Fielder-Civil, Mr. Amy Winehouse, is the comic relief in a script that straddles comedy and tragedy. He is a somewhat Falstaffian figure that nonetheless also employs what Robertson Davies once broadly outlined as fifth business: 'a character of an opera who has no opposite: the odd man out—neither heroine nor her lover, rival nor villain—yet essential to the plot' (w-pedia).

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