Busta Rhymes - Fire It Up
Yep, the Knightrider sample. Remember when this first came out? Hell yes.
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Stupid bloody curling. Stupid bloody British men’s curling team in a stupid bloody playoff which is still going at midnight and is bloody tense.
Stupid bloody me for starting to watch it nearly two hours ago and now not being able to go to bloody bed because I want to see how the bloody thing finishes.
EDIT: I went to bed before it finished. We lost. :(
11.02.10
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Oh Jay…
Those on the West of the Atlantic might need to fire up the urban dictionary
Man, I love this show. It reminds me of just how often my friends and I used to swear when we were at school, and still do now. Everyone knew someone like Jay a some point…
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Writing about Brass Eye a few minutes ago reminded me of this clip, which I just showed to the girlfriend in order to educate her about the brilliance of Brass Eye. It’s from the Drugs episode, and it shows how celebrities, and even a freakin’ Member of Parliament can be duped into doing material for an anti-drug campaigns.
Cake, you see, is a “made-up drug”. This didn’t stop the great and good from preaching to us about its dangers and effects, and the MP even went so far as to bring it up in Parliament! Epic win.
Oh, and this is nothing when compared to the similar tactic used in the Paedophile episode, which got one celebrity to state to camera that the average paedophile has more DNA in common “with a crab, than with you or I”. Utter, utter genius.
doctornecessiter asked: What are your favorite UK comedy television shows of all time? I know and love several, but I feel like I've only scratched the surface of what's available to me, and I'm always looking to expand my horizons. Advise and suggest!
Ooh, great question. I watch far too much TV, and I tend to watch a lot of comedy shows more than any other genre. Thankfully, British TV history is full of some fantastically funny programmes.
Probably my all-time favourite, which I know you know all about, is Peep Show. For those that haven’t seen it, it’s a tale of two early 30-something guys living together, but the twist is that the point of view is always first-person, with that person’s thoughts making up the narration. There’s usually a nice sarcasm between the guy’s thoughts and what he says out loud.
There’s a little-known show called Nighty Night which had a couple of series a few years ago. It’s darker than dark, with a gloriously disturbing main character. The supporting cast are great too, understated in performance and letting the writing speak for itself.
The Thick Of It is a wicked political satire, the series from which the film In The Loop was spawned. If you liked that, you’ll love this. It really does make you think that government operates like this.
Speaking of satire, both The Day Today and Brass Eye are incredibly cutting, almost vicious in the way they tear apart the media and British culture. The Brass Eye paedophile edition is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
Surrealism had its prime-time appearance too, in the shape of The League Of Gentlemen, which is utterly fucked up and far too funny. Admittedly, it became a little too reliant on catchphrases by the third series, but the first two are great.
We have a bit of a thing here for comedy news quizzes, usually highly topical and news-related. The best of the bunch is Have I Got News For You, particularly as one of the panellists is the editor of Private Eye magazine. I have a soft spot for 8 Out Of 10 Cats, whilst Mock The Week is more of an outright comedy show with the merest hint of news.
Harking back to the 80s, Blackadder is utter genius, although you’ll probably need to be up on your British history to get all of the jokes. Other classic comedy shows from that era include The Young Ones and Red Dwarf.
Oh, and one final suggestion is Marion & Geoff. It’s a one-man monologue show, but so clever and dark in its premise, barely revealing any details and forcing you to figure it out for yourself.
John Logie Baird, who 83 years ago today gave the first public demonstration of his new invention, the television, also had quite the history when it came to inventions in general.
My favourite little anecdote is that he caused a power cut across the whole of Glasgow when attempting to turn graphite into diamonds. And who said alchemy died in the middle ages?!
I tried putting a Post-It note over the offending part of her anatomy, but that wasn’t good enough apparently.
OK, it’s a bit of a non-story, some manufactured spluttering from the Daily Mail directed towards the BBC, but I loved this quote. Apparently, the director of some antiques TV show wanted a painting moved so as not to show a nipple on screen, even if it’s a centuries-old nipple in oil on canvas, in the background of the shot.
It amused me that the thought of putting a post-it note on it even occurred to the owner of the antiques shop in question. I think all paintings of this ilk need post-it notes for sensitive eyes…
I admit I flicked over to sky sports news just after the second half started again and actually watched it until the end to find out what happened
I have finally, finally broken the girlfriend.
I was at the Arsenal game last night, so she was home alone. Usually she doesn’t particularly care about football, despite my obsession, but of her own will she watched Sky Sports News for score updates and commentary on the game.
Ha! It’s taken a couple of years, but my football fanaticism has finally overcome her…
Just watched the final episode of The Wire. Epic. Absolutely epic. I can’t think of a single thread left undone, and the final montage was a delight.
I fully intend to write reams and reams about this show pretty soon, but suffice it to say that all day at work tomorrow I will be reading fan-sites, trivia, and everything else I can get my hands on about the show.
I refrained from doing so over the last few months, just in case I got even the merest hint of a spoiler, but now I can do so without a care in the world. No doubt there are a 1,001 things that I missed, especially foreshadowing and what-not, and it’s going to be interesting to think back to the early series and how certain things eventually panned out.
The only problem is deciding what to watch next.
‘Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins.’
‘Homer Simpson, smiling politely.’
‘Homer Simpson, smiling politely.’
We all have our favourite Simpsons moments of the last twenty years, but this little throwaway joke from the Homerpalooza episode is probably my favourite joke. It’s subtle, a little surreal, and emphasises Homer’s fish out of water-ness in this episode.
