Listening to Mark Radcliffe interviewing Darwin Deez, yer singing man with the stupid haircut. He's just described self as a VISIONARY, because he's an Aries. And Mark, who let the first bit go, has interrupted the Zodiac enthusings to ask if that starsign makes him "strop-tastic", a particularly British idiom the American then struggles with. And ( Read more... )

Jack's 'What's This?' but for beer, instead of Christmas.


Good feeling all around!

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.

Watching Jarvis writhing it up as lead singer of the Weird Sisters, headlining Hogwarts' Yule Ball, I realised I have another fictional band to add to my viewing wishlist. Along with DuJour, The Fireys and Brrrrian Slaaaade. But I suppose they're about as likely to appear before me as Spinal Tap are to play Wembley...

Wait, what?

Cor, Brian Logan, what an extraordinarily well-written article on musical comedy you have penned for The Guardian.

The stick with which musical comedy is often whacked is that it's neither one thing nor the other - that pairing jokes with tunes is a smokescreen for weak material. That's often true. A rhyme and a melody alone can't turn base comedy ( Read more... )