July is pretty much sucking ass so far and the cash for honours news just about put the lid on it. ‘No evidence to proceed’ ? Oh, sure. Shit scared, more like.
There’s more rain to come, too, so what better to cheer us up than a Punt & Dennis fest?
First up, the best Hugh Dennis sketch ever – it’s Mr Strange. Milky milky….
And just when you thought you’d got over being on the verge of heaving up breakfast, here he is again. Urgh.
Lovely.
USanian readers may know Hugh Dennis from his regular outings on Mock The Week; here he is giving an alternative commentary to a state dinner for Jacques Chirac:
Between the lines: what George Bush really said:
Punt & Dennis’s regular radio gig is the Now Show and I can’t wait for tonight’s, because I can’t wait to see what they make of (New) New Labour’s newly-admitted youthful flirtations with the demon weed. I just know Mitch Benn will filk Afroman…
This is last week’s Now Show on Glasgow’s incompetent bombing medics:
You can forget your johnny-come-lately Mitchells and your Webbses, the lightweights – Punt & Dennis is where it’s at for us scrag-end-of-the-baby-boom-ers. They’ve never been superstars but they’ve got staying power, have had a long and consistently funny career and are now looking well set to be the Morecanbe and Wise of their generation. They’ve yet to get stale, unlike some other double acts.
Milky milky.
Bonus clips
One of the things we should all be grateful for is the great new comedians that Punt & Dennis have introduced us to.
Mitch Benn on what happens when you give ancient relatives the special tea:
Marcus Brigstocke, aka Giles Wemmbley-Hogg, two m’s two g’s:
The tiny yet perfectly formed Jon Holmes ( try googling for him and see what you get!) ; here he is talking to David Frost on al-jazeera about his new book Status Quo and the Kangaroo; a compilation of stories about the antics of rock stars.
The Now Show has also featured Robin Ince, Dave Gorman, Simon Munnery, Al Murray, Andy Zaltzman, and Dr Phil Hammond and Jon Culshaw all of whom but Phil Hammond (because there are no clips, unless someone can point me at one) I’ve featured on comedy double at some point, which I supposed goes to show just ho mainstream my tastes have become.
The only dud in that line-up in my opinion is Robin Ince: I have tried, but he is just not funny. See for yourself and cringe:
Having inflicted that on you I now feel the need to atone, so for a bonus bonus clip here’s something entirely different – Marge Simpson does World of Warcraft. (Now I’m just waiting for Lego South Park does Family Guy doing The Simpsons in a WoW style. It has to happen.)
Right, I’m off to batten down the hatches – It’s ominously still and dark outside and thunderstorms are looming. Parts of Europe and the UK are supposed to get 2 months worth of rain in the next 24 hours. I just hope it’s not us, though I suppose if we do get indundated being in a country of clever water engineers isn’t such a bad thing.
Ah, well, you’ve got to laugh, haven’t you, and there’re some very nice wellies in the shops.
