From The Peter Serafinowicz Show Xmas Special.
Category: humour
baby photo
Does anybody recognize this kid?
Flight of the Conchords
Have you seen the TV show yet?
Here’s a snippet.
Flight of the Conchords is a Grammy Award-winning New Zealand comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Billing themselves as “Formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo”, the group uses a combination of witty observation, characterisation and acoustic folk guitars. The duo’s comedy and music became first the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2006, also called Flight of the Conchords. …
I think I’ve seen all 10 surreal episodes of season one. Interesting, quirky and original.
The boys try to make it BIG in New York City. And fail hopelessly.
Lovable losers.
Sunny Days and Nights
Comedy radio from the same team that brought us The Great Eastern. This was a summer replacement program aired From July 3 to August 31, 2004.
Our hero, Paul Moth, is interim host of cottage-country radio on a CBC affiliate somewhere in Ontario. Hilarious.
His sidekick Julie Secord is charmingly subtle in her disdain of Paul’s egomania.
You can download the 10 episodes here.
Bangladeshi gadget – Smart Stitch
The Smart Stitch is being hailed as a revolutionary garment factory that fits in the palm of your hand.
From The Onion.
Simpsons spoof Apple
I linked to this brilliant comedy clip before. It was taken down due to copyright violation.
However, I just learned that Hulu posts some of these clips legally on YouTube. This one will not be taken down.
Lisa finds heaven in Springfield’s new Mapple Store.
Hulu has already posted 158 clips like this from shows including Simpsons and Family Guy.
Write or Die
Garth — likely from his shiny new iPhone — sent me a link to a unique utility for writers.
Write Or Die: Putting the “Prod” in Productivity!
Write or Die is a web application that encourages writing by punishing the tendency to avoid writing. Start typing in the box. As long as you keep typing, you’re fine, but once you stop typing, you have a grace period of a certain number of seconds and then there are consequences.
…
Consequences:
* Gentle Mode: A certain amount of time after you stop writing, a box will pop up, gently reminding you to continue writing.
* Normal Mode: If you persistently avoid writing, you will be played a most unpleasant sound. The sound will stop if and only if you continue to write.
* Kamikaze Mode: Keep Writing or Your Work Will Unwrite Itself
* Electric Shock Mode: …
try it yourself on Dr. Wicked
1.9 days of The Great Eastern
I started listening to the famed CBC Radio Comedy series on Oct. 30th. And finished today, December 3rd.
That’s 45.6hrs of uninterrupted audio.
Wow.
What a fantastic show. I’m not sure what to play on my iPod any more. Anything else will be a let down.
My best memories from the original series had to do with the Legacies of Newfoundland’s Colonial Misadventure: Oougubomban Free State, a former African colony.
… Newfoundlanders are largely ignorant of the plight of our former colonial subjects, not least because our school system continues to suppress the ugly story of Newfoundland’s single, ill-advised colonial enterprise.
Our involvement in Oougubomba dates from 1927, when the British Prime Minister requested that the new Dominion of Newfoundland send troops to the Bomba region to put down tribal conflict that was threatening the interests of English and Ontarian betel-nut planters. Newfoundland’s then foreign secretary, Sir Peyton Osbourne, eager to prove that the new country had “a spot of vim”, and trying to divert public attention from the Furlong’s Confections corruption scandal that was rocking the Monroe government, sent the 4th King’s Own Jowls and Cavalancers Light up the River Bomba. …
read more – on The Great Eastern
It’s astonishing how little we know about Newfoundland history.
The Great Eastern was created and written by Mack Furlong, Ed Riche and Steve Palmer, and produced by Glen Tilley. This same team did a sequel …
Sunny Days and Nights:
… Paul Moth — out of a job as Great Eastern host and desperate for work — as interim host of cottage-country radio program on a CBC affiliate somewhere in Canada. …
I’ve downloaded those episodes.
IKEA now selling cars
Thanks Dana.
Rick McCharles 