Bloody hell, is it Friday again already? Apparently so. Blimey. The high point of midummer has passed us by with barely a mention and if you judge by the weather the actual calendar appears a little irrelevant (except when it comes to dentists’ appointments and phone bills). I too have been a bit out of sorts so last week’s effort was weak – I’d go so far as to call it viciously lame. I’ll try to do better today.
Have you ever wondered what those bloikes in parked up white vans are yapping on about while reading their redtops? Why, they’re solving the Middle East crisis of course:
You may recognise the guy on the right as Ricky Grover. aka East End gangster Buller; also from his myriad appearances on other hit UK comedies. As does Al Murray he has an edge of threat which you’re never quite sure is real or not. He also does standup – here’s a short collection of some of his funniest clips:
Here’s another
He should move to the Netherlands, the land of the dairy-fed giants, he’d fit right in. The next clip is an animated short movie, made by Lone Sausage, all about reluctant 5 year old superhero Dr Tran:
Lone Sausage has produced a whole YouTube subecology of Dr Tran videos – there’s
Dr. Tran’s Peanut Butter Square Hula Quest!
and
Dr. Tran in: Roybertito’s
This brand-building exercise has got to be the most self-referential evah. I predict Dr Tran will be the next Napoleon Dynamite/Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
While we’re on the subject,. we’ve all seen when a cartoon character’s eyes literally bug out of their head – booiinnggg! This next, well it’s just… argh. Funny and just plain squicky at the same time, here’s someone with real cartoon eyeballs.
How on earth to you follow that? By changing the subject entirely..
Bonus clips:
First, comedy in unexpected places – Jordanian-American valleyspeak as a teenage girl imitates her future hyothetical Arab husband, Not laugh out loud funny to anglophones because of the language difference, but amusing and charming nevertheless. You can’t help but like this girl.
I don’t know who she is except she lives in Houston but she’d be funny in any language and you should see her fight off the judgemental assholes in the comments. The future of comedy’s in safe hands.
The second bonus clip is proof, if any were needed, that Belgians are just strange, but in a weirdly cool sort of way. I once saw a Belgian comedy sketch that consisted entirely of guys pretending to be buffalo grazing. I had no idea what they were saying but I pissed myself laughing anyway. Dutch comics on the other hand? They’re just naff. Sorry. This is from a Belgian tv show called “big en betsie”. It’s a musical farting pig cartoon. Why, why, why did I have to see this? It’s only fair you should share the bafflement.
As always, the best is saved till last again: the moody, maginificent, musical stylings of John Shuttleworth. Here’s one of his many magnum opuses, ‘Incident on The Snake Pass”.
Eagle-eyed readers will have realised that Mr Shuttleworth is also no other than Jilted John. “…she’s a slag, he’s a creep, she’s a tart, he’s very cheap, it’s not fair, yeah yeah…” . Yup, it’s that Jilted John, and here he is in 1978 from TOTP 2:
You have been earwormed. My work is done.
