Comedy double

Today’s clips are all SFW, apart from the last one, which patently isn’t.

The first clip has been around for a while and is horribly cruel and very, very funny. A talk-show host loses it when he hears his interviewee’s voice:

That’s from Belgian comedy show Boomerang;.I like Belgian humour as it’s nicely twisted and surreal, unlike much Dutch comedy, which seems to me to consist mainly of white guys shouting obnoxiously and mugging wildly while spouting borderline racist crudities and making fart jokes or ‘alternative’ Dutch comedians who raise a knowing eyebrow so high it’s floating above the top of their heads.

Both specialise in making the audience feel both superior and transgressive and warmly, collectively Dutch. Both types invariably follow their act with a big finale, a lachrymose ballad with a twist in the last verse to, guess what, make the audience feel superior.

This does not appeal to me much: but show me a bunch of Belgians dressed as cows and mooing ‘ik wil buffel’ (I’m still looking for a YouTube clip) and I’m in fits of laughter. Why are the Belgians funnier than the Dutch? I’d really like to know.

Moving on: some people have really got the measure of YouTube and one of them is the very funny Chris of Cute With Chris. Here he gives a demonstration of how to completely annihilate a troll:

I do love to see to see an idiot get a righteous and funny putdown.

Chris also does kittens (no, not does kittens, you preverts). Here he asks, ‘Who will be America’s next top kitten?’ :

Poor, poor Donut. Will he ever get over it?

Bonus clip

Only one bonus clip today but if this doesn’t sate your comedy craving then nothing will. It’s absolutely, positively NSFW, or in front of your mother unless she’s the cool kind like me.

It’s the inevitable pairing that had to happen – Derek and Clive meet Statler and Waldorf :

Now that’s how to make crudity funny, Dutch comedians.

A brace of standup comics today – first up is Jason Manford‘s hilarious routine from Monday night’s BBC Live at the Apollo, Part One:

Part two:

The next clip is one to save for lunchtime, as it’s distinctly NSFW.Dave Chapelle doing standup at a London comedy club:

Proving that even car bombs can be funny, here’s Australian comic Adam Hills:

Hey Biff! What was it like being in Back To The Future? Well, now we know:

Bonus clips:

You’ll never look at the Muppets in the same way again. First, House of a 1000 Muppets. Aieeee…

Pulp Muppets:

C Is For Cookies “What happens in a futuristic world where the consumption of cookies is controlled by the government??”

Viva la cookie revolucion!

Bonus bonus clip

Oi! Whatchoo lookin’ at? Frank Butcher meets Eminem, with amusing results.

I think we can all probably agree that politically and judicially speaking this has been one of the shittiest weeks in a long succession of shitty, shitty weeks. So I need some distraction, dammit – give me trivia, give me silliness, anything to divert my attention fromk the general fucked-upness of things, at least for a little while.

Nobody does pointlessly amusing inconsequalities of that kind like the ad industry, so here’s a choice selection of funny advertising fluff to take your mind off all the doom and gloom. First up, this Danish ad asks “What if women wore the Y-fronts?” [Slightly NSFW.]

Cue the obligatory cats! It was only a matter of time before it turned up in an ad – cat-herding, western style:

I’d pay to see flying cats – so why this movie isn’t in full production, I don’t know. C’mon Hollywood!

Cat. Fish. Suspense…

Modern technology meets ancient custom in these award-winning Indian TV ads:

It takes some talent to see the huimour in stationery.

Blast from the past – by jingo, it’s an old USAF pilot recruitment commercial:

Bonus clips: To Protect and Serve

Wrinkly naked people are always good for a laugh and there’s lots of them in this clip, in which .au comedy show Chasers War On Everything police a nudist beach. [Slightly NSFW.] So much for Aussie rebellliousness…

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Speaking of petty officialdom, is this a windup? Have the US cops really taken to segways with sirens?

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If you’re black and a cop on a segway does come after you, here, from Chris Rock, is what not to do:

Which brings us back to where we started, with the general fucked-upness of things, including especially our very own homegrown plod:

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Glad I’m not in Norfolk just now, that clip doesn’t hold out much hope for the emergency response. Neither does this:

Ah well, you’ve gotta laugh. It’s either that or cry.