1: Every time you do that it makes me sadder.
2: I hadn't yet noticed. Delightful, unlike King Woe back at 1. What a jerk.
I mean, it's okay, but I wouldn't say it's, like, spectacularly funny.
The kids off my lawn are supporting me in e-mail.
Canada has a fairly funny show kind of like the Daily Show but a few years older called "This hour has 22 minutes." It's not in season now, but I went through a bunch of the clips on youtube a while back. Some of the jokes appear to require knowledge of Canada current/recent events, but not all of it.
What's the website that has all the QI? That's much better.
2:I have never seen any mouseover. I have run the mouse all over the page trying to find the sekrit text, without success.
Don't tell me, I like it this way.
The mouseover lives only in your heart.
There are dozens of these UK comedy panel shows. Often with the same guests on them each week. Some of the people on them are pretty reliably funny* but with that kind of level of output it's not always guaranteed.
* for me, Frankie Boyle** and David Mitchell [who is in the linked clip] almost always raise a laugh.
** scabrous and nasty, but what, for me, makes him genuinely funny is the current of surreal whimsy that he invokes at the same time.
I would like a 15-DVD set of the last 40 years of faux interviews between John Bird and John Fortune, but all I have are a few YouTube clips that people uploaded for political reasons.
Really, Stanley? That's like a Z list panel show over here. The good ones (at the moment) are You Have Been Watching, QI and Shooting Stars (a revival of a show that was huge a while back). Mock the Week is very popular (sort of a cross between Have I Got News For You and Whose Line Is It Anyway), but it doesn't do it for me. There are some very good ones on the radio too - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, The News Quiz, that sort of thing.
Who designs quiz show sets anyway? I suppose it's a self-parody but my god.
John Bird and John Fortune
God yes, they are brilliant.
Semi-OT, this sub-thread led me to discover the following on Eleanor Bron's Wikipedia page:
In 1985, Bron was selected for her authoritative tone to become "the voice of BT" and to this day can be heard on various error messages such as "Please hang up and try again".
Whenever I hear "YOU LIE", I think "July? Did he just call Obama 'JULY'?"
17: No, he's saying "Jew lie!".
It turns out now that Obama was born in Canada, and he's Jewish.
If we're talking British TV comedy in general, there's a ton of great stuff that I doubt has made it over the channel (broadcast-wise, anyway). Green Wing, as mentioned above is indeed superb. Fans of the lead actress, Tamsin Greig, (and for that matter anyone else) should check out Black Books, an earlier show she starred in with Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey. Also well worth searching for are The Thick of It, on which In The Loop was based, Nighty Night, The Armando Iannucci Show, anything by Chris Morris apart from Nathan Barley, Marion & Geoff and Gavin & Stacey (1st season). I've probably forgotten quite a few as well.
well worth searching for are ...anything by Chris Morris apart from Nathan Barley, Marion & Geoff and Gavin & Stacey (1st season).
This is kind of a complicated set of instructions.
Is the 1st season of Gavin & Stacey the only good one, or the only bad one?
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One of my students' facebook statuses is "Trying to prove that (AC)^T = A^T C^T" which is an incorrect statement, so I had fun posting an extremely befuddled response.
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Black Books* is a personal favourite. The episode when they house sit for the guy with the wine collection caused physical pain the first time I saw it.
* the above-mentioned comedy show, not the similarly named crappy misogynistic film by Verhoeven.
23: Please let me know about all of the good misogynistic films.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aittSiazAP0&feature=related
I thought each of the first six episodes of "Black Books" was about 25% worse than the previous one, so I was too demoralized by the end to start watching any of the subsequent seasons.
Really? I thought it remained pretty consistent over all three series.
Maybe you've been getting 25% less picky each week?
Or Ned is getting steadily more discerning?
What is the limit as n -> infinity of Ned's love for the series? Can he ever hate the series? Why or why not?
31: Just like a bad ack-ack gunner in WWII, it will approach, but never hit zero.
24: Fight Club doesn't exactly hate women, but it doesn't really see them being part of the revolution. And it's very good.
You could argue that lots of really good movies are somewhat misogynistic or at least express pretty dubious attitudes to women when viewed from a contemporary perspective. They can still be good movies. Verhoeven's film is not in that company.
All I remember about the movie in 34 is hating all the characters.
36: I had the same issue with the new Star Wars movies.
Sorry for the ambiguity in my instructions. Anything by Chris Morris apart from Nathan Barley is awesome - so go watch The Day Today, Brass Eye and Jam. And listen to his radio stuff as well - there's an incredible set of interviews with Peter Cook recorded shortly before the latter's death, as well as On The Hour and Blue Jam. Marion & Geoff and Gavin & Stacey aren't Morris projects. They do both feature Rob Brydon, however. And it's the first season of G&S you should definitely watch. The second season is OK, but nowhere near as good.
re: 36
Yes, that's my memory of it also.
"Trying to prove that (AC)^T = A^T C^T" which is an incorrect statement
Now I'm befuddled, or I don't understand your notation. A times B, and the product raised to the Tth power, isn't equal to A to the Tth times C to the Tth? I could have sworn it was.
I don't think of "Your Friends and Neighbors" (or any of Neil LaBute's work) as being really misogynist, because it is clear that his hatred of men far, far surpasses his hatred of women.
40: Yeah, I thought it was, too.
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Are you saying that (AC)^T =/= (A^T)*(C^T) ?
Sorry, those Ts are for "transpose".
They're matrices. C'mon, weren't you in class today?
his hatred of men far, far surpasses his hatred of women
He should definitely direct the Caster Semenya documentary.
46: That was "Noh Math". I hope you brought a kimono and a graphing calculator.
Actually it's Toe Math, but don't tell Ol' No Toeby or he'll feel left out.
49: There was a guy back home whose cousin convinced us all to call him "Nine-Toes." Which seemed a bit cruel given that the cousin was the one who took the tenth toe (Bobcat accident).
52: Bobcat® front-loader. Apparently, if you get your little toe crushed, they won't try very hard to save it.
Ah. Mr. Goldthwait was going to be my next guess.
58: Because he was startled by a bobcat, most likely.
Apparently, if you get your little toe crushed, they won't try very hard to save it.
Perhaps he could find a willing isopod to act in its place?
