Most disturbing garfield minus garfield ever. I can't begin to think what the smug lazy feline is doing, but I'm fairly sure he's administering fellatio and then biting Jon's cock off.

* Ha, Sarah Silverman
* Nice piece on newspaper journalism from Jonathan Cook
* OMG! How come I've not heard of this film till now? Surely awesomely bad in every way: IncendiaryA beautiful 25-year-old mother (Michelle Williams) lives in a London East End housing project with her bomb-disposal cop husband Lenny (Matthew Macfadyen) and their young ( Read more... )

( Writer's Block: groundbreaking comedy )

(1) Every time I leave an art gallery I am subjected to market research. But I did see the story of the romance between Barbra Streisand and Joseph Beuys retold in comic strip format by Mel Brimfield, who misspelt Streisand's forename throughout. I am unsure if this was ironic. Afterwards I was asked to read out a list of numbers corresponding ( Read more... )

I spend the afternoon at work reading stuff about history on Wikipedia. I now know a lot more about Finland (particularly its dealings with Germany and the USSR, and the province of Karelia), and a bit more about the happy Poles and their history of ace fighter-pilots and antisemitism ( Read more... )

Channel Four have been doing a reasonably sensible and interesting season on shocking or offensive comedy. As well as a documentary on jokes about taboo topics, which saw everyone from Darcus Howe to TV critic Ian Hyland being self-righteous and hypocritical (and Michael Parkinson laughing warmly at Bernard Manning's naked hateful racism), there ( Read more... )

Adding to this post.

( Cut for spoilers of Trevor Griffiths' Comedians )

( This entry is offensive to everyone. And the time is wrong. )

I saw comedian Doug Stanhope tonight, who was pretty funny, with his zany catchphrase "suck a cock". He's supposed to be the latest Bill Hicks, but as well as the catchphrase he wears a sort-of costume (office geeky with check trousers), and doesn't go into 10-minute-long streams of consciousness without any jokes, and appears to have no ( Read more... )

I've booked tickets for Doug Stanhope tonight (since I don't like comedy, someone whose act consists in being rude and shocking would be good) and Terry Saunders' Pulp Boy tomorrow at the Fringe. Culture, of sorts ( Read more... )