You expected maybe a Prince video here, considering he died today? Too bad, it’s Victoria Wood, who died yesterday. 2016 has been a hell of a year for seeing your old heroes die. An underrated comedian I only got to know because Sandra liked her a lot, especially this particular song.
funny
Pete Bagge invents hipsters
Pete Bagge gets the hipster mentality just right — back in 1991. From Hate! #7.
On italicising “foreign” languages
Daniel José Older talks about why you shouldn’t italicise foreign language use in English, but he forgets that it’s only thanks to italisation that we know when spaghetti was still considered an exotic, foreign dish in America!
“Rik’s dead! The People’s poet is dead”
But how can the people’s poet be dead when we still have his poems comedy?
Perhaps the best bit from Bottom:
The partnership between Rik Mayall and Ade Edmunson made their comedy:
Sandra’s favourite Rik Mayall scene:
Indestructable. Indestructable. Indestructable. Indestructable.
Too true
Jason Mamford on playing Football Manager.