comedy video of the day

By alice | February 28, 2008

Bill Bailey, my favourite musical comedian from the (English) West Country, better than Victor Borge, on ambulance signals. Presumably everyone in Britain has workable French these days, o how times have changed.

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Theocritus Says:
February 29th, 2008 at 1:33 am

“Presumably everyone in Britain has workable French these days.” Perhaps not everyone–once in great while one will see French translated in The Spectator, and one never saw that before. Often Latin is now translated and Italian too. Two decades ago, jamais.

But the French amuse me. Some years ago I saw a new article with typical Gallic huffing and puffing about American cultural imperialism, which doesn’t exist. Just say no, as the French did for a great while for EuroDisney which nearly caused it to go away. Imperialism has guns, not a choice of Asterix over the mouse.

This time they were on about American restaurants and how horrible they all are. And if they’re talking KFC or McDonald’s, they’re right, if you consider them restaurants, which I don’t. But the example French television showed was one called Le Tex Mex, in the days before Tex Mex was, I think, being served outside the American Embassy in London. Back when Tex Mex was best typified by Jorge’s on Guadalupe.

But for a different take try Extreme Center. How nice not to be kicked for once. And there’s a really good redneck joke there, one that made the rounds here about a year ago.