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Comedy Double – Alan Coren* Memorial Edition

Published on October 19, 2007

The best things in life are free… well yeah, but for the rest we need dosh. So today’s theme, yes you guessed it, is money and the economy.

Economists have a sense of humour? Who knew? Here’s the hilarious Yoram Bauman, who describes himself as “the world’s first and only stand-up economist”:

That economists apparently have a sense of absurdity does explain an awful lot about the state we’re in….

We’ve all got vastly different attitudes to money – some people have an almost visceral attachment to it, like Eric Idle in Monty Python’s’ classic “Money Programme’ sketch:

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Some people will do anything, and I mean anything, to get their grubby mitts on it. Do not watch what happens when a guy agrees to drink a bottle of ipecac on camera for money if you are at all of a delicate disposition.

Bleurgh. I need something to take my mind, or should I say stomach, off that image. What better than a selection of the stupidities people commit hen trying to get at other people’s money?

D’oh!

Oops, butterfingers…

Ooh, I so want this robber’s incredible shoes…

Or maybe not. Some people, though, just don’t have the gumption to be good bad guys. This may just be the most pathetic armed robbery ever:

But let’s look away from the seedier side of money for a moment, and towards the more profligate side of cash.

Some people have no regard for money at all. This young British guy gambled his entire life savings, about a hundred thousand pounds, on one single spin of a Las Vegas roulette wheel. Gulp.

Then there are those people who wager respectably on the stock markets, thinking that if it’s made complicated-sounding enough that we won’t cotton on to the fact that what’s known as international high finance is just gambling.

Eric Idle once again sums it up best:

Yeah, that’s pretty much how it sound to me too. High or low income, money may be the international language, but in the end isn’t it just more bloody trouble than it’s worth? Look at the rancour it causes:

Oy. But that’s life under capitalism for you.

Bonus clips:

Just one today but it’s a doozy – to get you in the right frame of mind for Hallowe’en, here’s Look Around You Module 4, ‘Ghosts’:

UPDATE:

* Alan Coren, the doyen of British satire, the former editor of Punch and mainstay of the BBC’s News Quiz, Cricklewoood’s most famous literary auteur, died this morning. Both Linda Smith and Alan Coren gone. Damn.

Here’s Alan in the 1992 HIGNFY election special.

RIP.

Comedy Double: Bumper Fart Edition

Published on October 12, 2007

Today’s comedy double, I’ll say right upfront, is probably not suitable for viewing in straightlaced workplaces, involving as it does cloacal and scatological humour.

In other words, it’s all about bums and farts.

Anyway you’ve been warned. On with the fart jokes! You’re all grownups, presumably; and if not then, my, you are the precocious one, aren’t you?

Everybody farts, even Captain Kirk.

From the late lamented British sketch show Absolutely, Frank Hovis has a teensy little flatulence problem:

Oh noes! More Star Trek farts! Maybe they should call him Whiffy Worf:

[Star Trek fart videos seem to be a burgeoning YouTube subgenre: see also Fart Trek: The Undiscovered Fart and Star Trek: Lethal Atmosphere for examples]

The teenager in this homemade prank video has impeccable comic fart timing:

The Matrix Refarted. Silly, childish, but I nearly wet myself laughing.

Refried beans. Need I say more? This is a commercial for a Mexixcan restaurant: I’m not sure that it’s the Unique Selling Proposition they should have chosen…

Nicely subverting the classic eyecandy beer commercial:

The One, The Only, The Classic, Blazing Saddles Fart Scene.

Some farts can be truly lethal, as Lenny Henry demonstrates:

The moral of the story? Don’t eat cabbage in combat, obviously.

Things are not always what they seem. Not sure here this cartoon’s from or what the language is, but you’ll get tne drift.

Even Lego farts. Whatever the topic, someone will have made a stop-motion Lego video of it.

Nearly the final trump, so to speak – here’s totally insane Belgian kid’s video Fopje Flauw Mopje:

No fart compilation would be complete without Monty Python.

Now it’s complete.

Bonus clips

Canadian cartoons – this weird one was made for the Canadian customs authorities in 1999:

Canada has stereotypes too, as in this ad from Nissan:

Comedy Double: Postponed Sorted

Published on October 5, 20072 Comments

Sorry, I have a blinding headache: normal posting will resume as soon as it’s gone. In the meantime, the Comedy Double archive is getting pretty big. If you’re looking for a Friday giggle, why not take a lucky dip?

EDIT Martin: Oh, alright then, the following video is bizarre but cheerful enough for the Comedy Double: some Japanese bubblegum popgroup prancing around in their underwear:

Well, I liked it…

Okay, one more. The Wiggles is some not very talented ozzie band who decided early on their career that children are stupid enough to swallow a lot of dumb shit and since then they’ve infested merkin telly, though fortunately they have not yet been seen in cloggieland, thank fug. Here’s what happens when they’ve taken a slightly too big tab of acid before creating one of their videos:

Published on September 28, 2007

This week I was going to do an all-granddad special so as to redress the gender balance from last week’s grandma special , but there doesn’t seem to be many funny grandad clips youtubed compared to clips of funny grandmas. Are grandmas just inherently funnier?

Anyway, while I was looking I ran across all these, so that’s what you’re getting instead.

Ouch. Ouch. Ow ow ow, oww. Australian comedy show Chaser’s War on Everything on toilet paper:

I did find a couple of granddads, though, including this rather naughty one in this commercial for the Amstrad videophone (that sold well, didn’t it?) which I’m not sure was actually ever aired. Slightly NSFW.

Poor old Grandad, sometimes grandchildren can be right little toads. (You have to watch it through to the end…)

“Whazzupp!!” God, that seems a century ago. More silly old people in this Budweiser ad:

Age doesn’t always mellow, though. I’m glad I wasn’t on the receiving end of this foul tirade from what sounds like one of BT’s more elderly customers. Definitely NSFW.

Let’s all laugh at teh funny foreigners. A Swedish insurance ad:

The name’s Bond, Jizz Bond…A Chinese condom commercial:

Bonus clips:

The military beat goes on and on, but where are the Dutch military jumpstylers? [NB: For the hard of understanding, featuring this clip does not imply my support for illegal wars, atrocities or war crimes.]

Not boogyng down but bogged down…

That clip does not inspire confidence in our glorious armed forces and neither does this – a blooper reel of air drops gone horribly wrong.

War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.

Comedy Double: There’s No-One Quite Like Grandma

Published on September 21, 20071 Comment

Wahahaha. Grandma to the rescue!

You’ve been told – don’t mess with Grandma…

Oh dear. This is what happens when Nan plays Doom too much. An XBox viral:

Age can often bring an entirely new lease of life, not to mention a loosening of inhibitions. Here’s Grandma on the PS3, stuck at a big boss level on Resistance, Fall of Man: