Saturday, September 05, 2009
Some humour for Saturday morning. Keith Olberman goes after Glenn Beck and it's hilarious.
And there's more.
And there's more.
Labels: Fox, Glenn Beck, News International, United States, YouTube
Friday, September 04, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
I don't think there's much point saying anything about the whole health plan nonsense in America because it does seem that everyone against it is a dick. I'm sorry, it's not particularly incisive political commentary but I've yet to see anyone open their mouth or put key to keyboard against it who has not them proceeded to prove themselves to be an arse of the highest district. In the meantime, Stephen Hawking, ha ha ha!
Labels: Barack Obama, health, NHS, stupidity, United States, YouTube
Saturday, July 25, 2009
The Race to the Clouds is an annual event where drivers must drive up over 4700 feet of the Pikes Peak mountain in Colorado. Near the bottom the road is regular tarmac, as things get higher, not so much. Even if you don't care much for cars, you'll still find this amazing.
[via Autopia]
[via Autopia]
Labels: cars, United States, YouTube
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Silly Men in Sensible Shocker
The non-dead bits of Monty Python have decided to put everything up, for free, on YouTube, in the hopes that it will encourage people to buy their DVDs. I already have my DVDs, bought from Amazon Germany because they were massively cheaper and in bigger bulk and still in English from Europe than bought in the UK. But this is the sensible way to go about it and it will be worth watching, if this encourages fresh sales of Monty Python merch. If nothing else, John Cleese has got all that alimony to pay...
The Monty Python YouTube Channel. Seems to have some rare-ish stuff, like the Cleese/Palin Amnesty 'Dead Parrot Sketch'.
The Monty Python YouTube Channel. Seems to have some rare-ish stuff, like the Cleese/Palin Amnesty 'Dead Parrot Sketch'.
Labels: comedians, comedy, Monty Python's Flying Circus, piracy, YouTube
Friday, June 26, 2009
And in the future they will always ask, "where were you when you heard Michael Jackson died?" and I'll admit that I was in the university paper-shop, looking for a paper. I saw all the pictures on the covers of the newspapers, about what happened. I was shocked. Appalled. That the newspapers would, to a rag, take such a negative view of a singer that just tried to shine a little light, who just wanted to give people a glimpse of a different world.
That's Jarvis Cocker of course. Michael Jackson, even in 1996, was yesterdecade's news. If the Brits wanted to give Michael Jackson a made-up award because they wanted him to perform there, fine. He'd done an album that was nothing special but he wanted to perform and, who cares, why not? But even in a business not known for good taste, to have loads of children and people in religious costume look to him like he was some sort of messiah, without any sense of irony, that was when he was finished, and the following thirteen years have been little more than a long death rattle. What was especially amusing was that the next day all the newspapers had a go at Jarvis as a child-trampling thug. The next day they got with the program as they realised that they had misjudged public opinion which was firmly behind the Jarv. Jackson's last act in life was to propel Pulp to the stardom they achieved in the nineties, one of Britpop's biggest acts.
That's Jarvis Cocker of course. Michael Jackson, even in 1996, was yesterdecade's news. If the Brits wanted to give Michael Jackson a made-up award because they wanted him to perform there, fine. He'd done an album that was nothing special but he wanted to perform and, who cares, why not? But even in a business not known for good taste, to have loads of children and people in religious costume look to him like he was some sort of messiah, without any sense of irony, that was when he was finished, and the following thirteen years have been little more than a long death rattle. What was especially amusing was that the next day all the newspapers had a go at Jarvis as a child-trampling thug. The next day they got with the program as they realised that they had misjudged public opinion which was firmly behind the Jarv. Jackson's last act in life was to propel Pulp to the stardom they achieved in the nineties, one of Britpop's biggest acts.
Labels: Britpop, music, paedophiles, YouTube
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Oh Mr Deity I've missed you!
Labels: atheism, atheists, Christianity, Fundamentalists- Christian, humour, religion, YouTube
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
"Three thing taught me conservative love, Jesus, Ronald Reagan plus Atlas Shrugged"
Hilarious.
They've also knocked up a website too, where they continue to play the game to the hilt.
They've also knocked up a website too, where they continue to play the game to the hilt.
Labels: Conservatives, humour, music, politics, United States, YouTube
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
"Badgers? We don' Need no Steenkin' Badgers!"
Labels: Bryan Talbot, comic artists, comics, YouTube
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Following on from here I've found, thanks to Skepchick, another mickeytaking video, presenting The Darwin Finches!
They've also linked to Slacktivist who has explained that when a Christian complains that two men marrying breaks his or her freedom you can just point out that Fred Phelps has not been arrested for his outrageous anti-humanity and so win the argument.
They've also linked to Slacktivist who has explained that when a Christian complains that two men marrying breaks his or her freedom you can just point out that Fred Phelps has not been arrested for his outrageous anti-humanity and so win the argument.
Labels: Fundamentalists- Christian, gay marriage, humour, skepticism, YouTube
Monday, April 27, 2009
Charlie Brooker on The Wire
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Canadian Scientists from Canadia have discovered fossilised evidence of a prehistoric ancestor to the seals of today, an animal that walked on feet. [via Pharyngula] Big deal, we've seen these kind of animals for years now.
Labels: Evolution, humour, science, YouTube
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Three Funny Videos
We should remember that only two of them are intentionally amusing.
First there was:
Then there was:
Best yet:
[via Feministing.]
UPDATE: Heh, someone's snapped up that domain name: Giant Gay Repellent Umbrella.
First there was:
Then there was:
Best yet:
[via Feministing.]
UPDATE: Heh, someone's snapped up that domain name: Giant Gay Repellent Umbrella.
Labels: Fundamentalists- Christian, gay marriage, humour, YouTube
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Police Attacking Public Again
Labels: demonstrations, police, YouTube
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Labels: Charlie Brooker, death, media, newspapers, YouTube
Thursday, March 05, 2009
You may also like to read Towing Jehovah by James Morrow.
[via Pharyngula]
Labels: atheism, atheists, Christianity, God, humour, YouTube
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Labels: Gogol Bordello, music, YouTube
Friday, December 26, 2008
Harold Pinter R.I.P.
Labels: Harold Pinter, The War Against Terror, YouTube
Friday, December 19, 2008
Charlie Brooker's Tribute to Oliver Postgate
Kids these days don't know they're born. Anyone who was young in the Seventies or early Eighties will have been touched by the hand of Postgate.
Labels: children, Television, YouTube
Sunday, November 30, 2008
I have a few issues with The Prodigy, as they are one of the most unconvincing 'fuck you I won't do what you tell me' anti-authoritarian outfits ever, if George Formby ever lost it for a moment on stage and dropped a 'bollocks' into 'When I'm Cleaning Windows' he'd still be harder and more street than The Prodge. And I was also unimpressed by Liam Howlett's determination to only turn out shit music after (or, some might justifiably argue, during) The Fat of the Land because it was terrible about how so many people liked their music and they'd never wanted to be popular and wah wah wah wah BOLLOCKS! Still, after years in the wilderness releasing stuff that would have even Prince tutting about quality control it seems that things might have changed. Firestarter residuals not being what they were and that All Saints reunion not really working Liam probably needs to start courting the public with decent tunes to get the money in again.
Invaders Must Die is actually a fun track, no great musical departure but then not Baby's Got a Temper (And We're Making No Effort Whatsoever). The video with Noel Clarke tromping round the Essex coastline and re-enacting The Wasp Factory is a laugh too, enhanced by the fact that The Prodigy barely appear in it at all. Happy days!
Invaders Must Die is actually a fun track, no great musical departure but then not Baby's Got a Temper (And We're Making No Effort Whatsoever). The video with Noel Clarke tromping round the Essex coastline and re-enacting The Wasp Factory is a laugh too, enhanced by the fact that The Prodigy barely appear in it at all. Happy days!
