So that entry just got lost...
So here's the shorter version, for your comedic pleasure, the british musical comedy troupe Flanders & Swann:
This first is Swann explaining the story behind a hat he is wearing on stage, Los Olividados:
http://www.iankitching.me.uk/humour/hippo/olives.html And this one is the intro and song for The First and Second Laws Of Thermodynamics...which of course I found as the joke of the week on a physics site:
http://physics.about.com/cs/jokeoftheweek/a/flandersandswan.htm Although if you can download audio files for them, that would probably make it about a thousand times funnier.