The Mighty Boosh on creativity

Friday, December 5th, 2008

It took me quite a long time to “get” these people and if you’re not British already, you probably have better things to do with the next few months. However, it was worth it in the end; they’re genius poets as well as cult hits, in my view (do all poets have to be Shakespeare? [...]

comedy videos of the day

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Mitchell and Webb make their contribution to the millennia-old racism awareness training debate:

Not everyone can play a racist Jesus for laughs.
Or make us chuckle at the words “sick and dying children” (this one contains a rude word at the end starting with W, although I’m not sure if Americans consider it quite as rude [...]

Brit-com video of the day

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

It took me a while to “get” the humour of The Mighty Boosh, partly because the title has nothing to do with anything or anyone in the show ever, and partly because the whole thing is so very reminiscent of Ex-Husband’s wacko bunch of pals & flatmates of the 80’s & 90’s (please do not [...]

comedy video of the day

Thursday, February 28th, 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.

British comedy video of the weekend

Friday, January 18th, 2008

This one contains nothing offensive whatever, thank goodness- just a great riff on Britishness by Bill Bailey, one of my favourite comedians (followed by some stuff about Hinduism). I couldn’t put it any better than he does- pinning down the essence of the UK national character is definitely a job best suited to the comedy [...]

Little Britain

Friday, January 18th, 2008

This is a crazy long ramble, which will definitely not become a habit anytime soon. Just downloading. There’s a video at the end, for those who make it past the hop…
As usual this time, when I landed all I could see was dirt and overcrowding. Why doesn’t anybody brush their hair here? I kept thinking, [...]







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