{"id":2184,"date":"2007-03-09T07:10:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T11:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/2007\/03\/09\/friday-comedy-double-4\/"},"modified":"2007-03-09T07:10:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T11:10:16","slug":"friday-comedy-double-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/2007\/03\/09\/friday-comedy-double-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Comedy Double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit late posting these this morning but I&#8217;ve been having way too much fun looking at comedy clips to find which ones to feature and the time got away.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s first clip is from comedienne <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jocelyn_Jee_Esien\">Jocelyn Jee Esien&#8217;s<\/a>  BBC3 show <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Miss_Jocelyn\">&#8220;Little Miss Jocelyn&#8217; <\/a>and is about the problematic British attitude to  race, class and sex. <\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s putting it mildly.<\/p>\n<p align=\"<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-XaNXHQvdX0\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-XaNXHQvdX0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The second is a classic clip from those unsung heroes of British comedy, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Punt_and_Dennis\">Punt &#038; Dennis<\/a>, in which they explain &#8220;Spot The Stiff&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iHGYdOQhu2g\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iHGYdOQhu2g\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re on  the subject don&#8217;t forget the latest edition of Punt &#038; Dennis&#8217; topical radio comedy show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/comedy\/nowshow.shtml\">The Now Show<\/a>, is on BBC Radio 4 this evening at 6.30 UK time (or on listen again at the same address a day afterwards) and features professional middle-class liberal grouch <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marcus_Brigstocke\">Marcus Brigstocke<\/a>, the very tiny <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marcus_Brigstocke\">Jon Holmes<\/a> and the very hairy and musical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchbenn.com\/\">Mitch Benn<\/a>. If you like British comedy you&#8217;ll love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit late posting these this morning but I&#8217;ve been having way too much fun looking at comedy clips to find which ones to feature and the time got away. Today&#8217;s first clip is from comedienne Jocelyn Jee Esien&#8217;s BBC3 show &#8220;Little Miss Jocelyn&#8217; and is about the problematic British attitude to race, class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy-double","category-funny","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/proggold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}