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Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
2012-07-18
2012-03-19
'Bread of Heaven' - Michael McIntyre
"Michael McIntyre takes his comedy roadshow over the Severn Bridge to Swansea's Grand Theatre"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-iiTK_HSqI
2010-12-22
My Blackberry Is Not Working! - The One Ronnie, Preview - BBC One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI
2008-07-16
2008-07-13
2008-07-05
Round The Horne Trends with Hugh Paddick & Betty Marsden
"Here, in an episode from Round the Horne, Celia Backstroke & Albert Runt ham it up in a quasi Noel Coward production."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cVhZFc9PJ40
2008-05-17
Jazz legend Lyttelton dies at 86
"Veteran jazz musician and radio host Humphrey Lyttelton has died aged 86."http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7367385.stm
2008-05-04
The Greensleeves Monologue Annotated
"The most erudite segment of the long-running 1950s two-man show "At the Drop of a Hat" was a fanciful monologue about the origin of the tune Greensleeves by Michael Flanders. This page is an annotated transcript.
Explaining jokes is the surest way of killing them, I hear you say. Well, certainly -- and I'm quite sure very few readers of this page need "tight as Andronicus" or "Angry Young Man" explained. But considering that this extremely witty monologue was intended to appeal to a culturally savvy audience of London theatregoers in the 1950s, it would hardly be surprising if a few of the puns and sly references were lost on an audience in the 21st century. Some of them are so clever that they deserve resurrection, or at least preservation in some sort of cultural formaldehyde.
Here, then, is the "Greensleeves" monlogue explained to death, in an amalgam of the version recorded for vinyl in 1957 and that recorded for CD at the last performance at the Fortune Theatre, May 2, 1959."
http://www.beachmedia.com/gorbuduc.html
Explaining jokes is the surest way of killing them, I hear you say. Well, certainly -- and I'm quite sure very few readers of this page need "tight as Andronicus" or "Angry Young Man" explained. But considering that this extremely witty monologue was intended to appeal to a culturally savvy audience of London theatregoers in the 1950s, it would hardly be surprising if a few of the puns and sly references were lost on an audience in the 21st century. Some of them are so clever that they deserve resurrection, or at least preservation in some sort of cultural formaldehyde.
Here, then, is the "Greensleeves" monlogue explained to death, in an amalgam of the version recorded for vinyl in 1957 and that recorded for CD at the last performance at the Fortune Theatre, May 2, 1959."
http://www.beachmedia.com/gorbuduc.html
2008-05-02
Joyce Grenfell - Nursery School, Free Activity Period
"And this is my friend Caroline, and Caroline is painting such a lovely red picture, aren't you, Caroline? I wonder what it is? Perhaps it's a lovely red sunset, is it? Or a big red orange? It's a picture of Mummy! For a moment I thought it was a big red orange, but now you tell me, I can see it is a picture of Mummy."http://monologues.co.uk/First_Ladies/Free_Activity_Period.htm
and many more ...
http://monologues.co.uk/
2007-12-22
2007-11-16
A Compendium of 150 Monty Python Sketches
No, here at One Man's Institute for the Exceptional Documentation of Silly Time Wasting Videos we have a rule that one shall post no fewer than 150 videos - and the number of videos posted shall be 150."
http://onemansblog.com/2006/12/01/a-compendium-of-150-monty-python-sketches/
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