...actor, comedian, creepy landlord in those awful BT adverts - in short, danielrigby - who has recently been doing a show in New York though he's too self-effacing to squee that on his blog. Better to muse on the city's dogs...

People think the streets of New York are run by the mob, or gangs, but they’re not, they’re run by small dogs. The pavements are ( Read more... )

There is a stand in the Royal Society's FREE Summer Science Exhibition dedicated to laughter, how it works and how it sounds around the world. To illustrate proceedings, ComedyClub4Kids are running a comedy stage, with acts on every half an hour (:30 and :00). Four audience members are wired up, so we can check their breathing readings; the act ( Read more... )

Heh. Nice work, missus.

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And a selection of YouTube comments:

BaNdIToAnDrEaS
The uhh gibbon...umm...spunked on her leg...

MrKikicool
Fuck of you cunt
No efence

MrLenzi1
FAKE AND GAY

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Can’t quite believe martylog has never done this, using his MFMO. Though it may be the comedy orchestra equivalent of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ on the ukulele. A song I now delight in thinking may be, as Gareth Gwynn has noted, sung from the point of view of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ tryuing to get back into the band’s current setlist.

Have determined an excellent use of my Twitter favourites is to retweet them onto LJ. In blocks of 10 days at a time. Welcome to the middle of March.

robinince Robin Ince ( Read more... )

Have determined an excellent use of my Twitter favourites is to retweet them onto LJ. Think of this as a mass Follow Friday; catch-up on 10 days worth of the elsewhere of the internet; an insight into what tickles & feeds & surrounds me; an extremely lengthy and vaguely irritating waterfall of wordery...

mrchrisaddison, Chris Addison ( Read more... )

Excellent #notfringe hashtag fun happening on Twitter right now. (e.g. Ed's suggestion of "If You Define 'Star Of' As 'Someone Who Has Been In' Then I Am The Star Of A Lot Of Things".) Prompted me to go back through previous year's diaries for genuine awfulness avoided. Can't believe I spent an entire month in 2008 not going to see Broadway Swings ( Read more... )