Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Comedy, Irish Middle Class on May 31st, 2011 2 Comments »
And then I remembered Carlo Cipolla’s brilliant essay on The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (Allegro ma non troppo pub. Critica 1992) which identified the third (and golden) basic law, which states: A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain […]
Posted in Comedy, French, Ireland on May 18th, 2011 2 Comments »
This video is by that rare creature - a Frenchman that makes me laugh (intentionally that is) - Philippe KATERINE. He also makes my daughters laugh a lot - may be due to the fact they’ve just overtaken me in mental age.
Translation of the lyrics :
Hello, I’m the Queen of England and I’m shitting down […]
Posted in Television, Comedy on Jan 17th, 2011 No Comments »
I recently installed a satellite dish which means I now have access to non-Irish channels for the first time in almost a year. And last week, in between the re-runs of Minder and The Sweeney, I came across On The Buses, which I haven’t seen since the late 1970s - and even then they were […]
Posted in Death of a Tiger, Comedy on Oct 26th, 2010 6 Comments »
Posted in Comedy on Sep 4th, 2010 No Comments »
Commercial for the Young Director Award, 2010.
Posted in Comedy on Aug 5th, 2010 No Comments »
Finally found an embed-enabled version of one of my favourite Saturday Night Live sketches.
Enjoy.
Posted in Comedy on Jul 23rd, 2010 6 Comments »
This trailer of an Irish film called Fatal Deviation (!) has some classic lines, made more resonate by the accent they are spoken in.
Robert Popper says that its an instant modern classic and I believe him. Remember, he just might be responsible for Crystal Swing’s success.
I have no idea yet what the […]
Posted in Comedy on Oct 19th, 2009 3 Comments »
Even though you know what happens is what is going to happen, it’s still funny.
Posted in fuckwits, Comedy, French on Jan 3rd, 2009 14 Comments »
[Dieudonné on a French advertising pillar in a characteristically tasteful advert for a previous one-man-show]
In bringing in the new year (that thus far doesn’t look like being much of an improvement on the fetid worm-ridden stool we just left in the toilet bowl of time) I get to use for the first time a tag […]
Posted in Comedy, dublin, Ireland on Sep 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
[ K. McAleer lifted from timeout.com / D. Allen half inched from, ahem, timesonline.co.uk ]
Conor’s post last week (complete with a graph) on comics, their politics, their funniness and the correlations between the three ( Balance and Comedy do not Mix ) got me thinking on some of the comics missing from the […]
