its sensibility cited by Mark Gattis as the key influence on Sherlock. Its barrage of jokes and burlesque plotlines are suffused with a melancholy stemming from Holmes’s loneliness and the ...

But no matter, the joke stood. Cumberbatch also noted the Sherlock Holmes jokes Downey made, and addressed a line of dialogue that had to be changed as a result. He said: "We had a gas about being ...