Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comedy. Show all posts

Wednesday, 19 January 2011

Simon`s Cat

While visiting my family at Christmas, my brothers showed me some Simon's Cat videos. I enjoy a quality animation and these well observed and witty shorts certainly fit the bill. I hope that you enjoy them as much as I did.

Friday, 5 March 2010

A selection of Groucho Marx quotes

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. . . But we're going back next week.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.

From the moment I picked your book up until I put it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's to dark to read.
Are you going to believe me, or what you see with your own eyes?

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

Why was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of you than you do!

We give 'em a seventy-five cent meal that'll knock their eyes out. After we knock their eyes out, we can charge them anything we want.

I drink to make people interesting.

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

Time wounds all heels.

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

Saturday, 27 February 2010

How to Behave On An Internet Forum

Videojug presents this hilarious and oh-so-true guide, that applies as much to chat channels as it does to forums [surely 'fora'].


Internet: Useful Tips:
How To Behave On An Internet Forum

Saturday, 20 February 2010

Great British comedy now available on YouTube

Last year the British television broadcaster Channel 4 signed a deal with YouTube to host some of their 4OD (4 On Demand) content. This means that the rest of the world can enjoy some of the channel's quality (and some of its not-so-good) content.

Here are a few of my personal favourites from the comedy section:

Spaced - A surreal situation comedy about two twenty-somethings sharing a London flat, written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson.

Father Ted - Another surreal sitcom following the adventures of three Irish priests on Craggy Island, written by Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews and starring (the sadly missed) Dermot Morgan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Frank Kelly and Pauline McLynn.

The IT Crowd - Yet another sitcom, but this time the setting is an IT support team in a London corporation, written by Graham Linehan and starring Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, and Katherine Parkinson.

Brass Eye - A bitingly satirical spoof current affairs series created by Chris Morris.

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

New Design and some leechified content

I have changed my title image and the background. I am not convinced about the new look, the background in particular. Let me know if you like it or whether you think it would look better as a plain, yet imperious, purple. I still have to change my Entrecard ad, and make suitable changes on the various blog catalogues and other sites where this is registered to remove the word 'Rants' from the blog title.

Once this is done and this blog has been suitably generalised I will no doubt feel more inclined to post a plethora of exciting things here. To keep you all amused in the meantime, here is the excellent Flight of the Conchords in the guise of the Hiphopopotamus & Rhymenoceros.

Sunday, 21 September 2008

Rich Hall

Rich Hall is one of my favourite comedians currently working. After making a number of appearances on popular US talk shows, such as Late Night with David Letterman, and working as a regular on Saturday Night Live, Hall carved out a career for himself across the Atlantic in the UK, where he has become a mainstay of comedy panel shows, including QI and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He may have found a more ready acceptance of his dry sardonic humour in Britain; he certainly appears to have found more work here in the UK since the mind-90s than he has done in his native US.

He had published a number of books, including the excellent Things Snowball - a collection of short prose pieces that showcase his imaginative wit and love of language. My favourite piece is a response to a 'Dear John' letter written as if it were an academic article, fully footnoted and indexed. Hall also invented the term 'sniglet' - any word that isn't in the dictionary but should be - and has published several collections of them. An example of a sniglet is "Furnidents: The indentations left in carpet after moving heavy furniture."

The following videos are of Hall's 2005 appearance on Jack Dee Live at the Apollo, which includes language and ideas that may be offensive to some people.