Tag Archives: Comedy

Stanley Unwin’s Deepest Joys. Oh yes.

I’ve been picking up audio clips by Stanley Unwin (1911-2002), at long last — the stimulus being listening again to certain morsels used as interstitial material in a mix I picked up from Tom Raworth’s blog, many moons ago. I … more…

Posted on March 9, 2008 by pilgrim

Posted in Cultural, film, humour, language, radio, TV | Tagged Comedy, Deep Joy, English, James-Joyce, language, Professor, Slim Gaillard, Stanley Unwin, Unwinese | 3 Comments

links for 2008-01-26: Donald Barthelme, Malki’s Expendable

Donald Barthelme’s barthelmismo jessamyn’s collection of Bathelme links (tags: barthelme jessamyn pynchon humour) Wondermark: Expendable David Malki’s venture into moving pictures. Its an action comedy, with live actors. (tags: david-malki wondermark shorts movies comedy humour youtube)

Posted on January 26, 2008 by pilgrim

Posted in film, humour, literature, spooks, _del.icio.us | Tagged Comedy, David Malki, Donald Barthelme, humour, jessamyn, Thomas Pynchon, wondermark, YouTube | Leave a comment

Penman on Extras

Just a quick one: Ian Penman has views at THE PILL BOX on Extras, Ricky Gervais’s latest thing. I was uneasy about the humour in The Office, but wouldn’t actually avoid it. Extras, however, pumps up everything about The Office … more…

Posted on October 15, 2006 by pilgrim

Posted in TV | Tagged Comedy, Extras, Ian-Penman, Ricky-Gervais, The-Office, TV, UK | Leave a comment

Apprehending Peter Cook whilst in pursuit of Kenneth Williams

Prompted by a google referral from someone looking for Kenneth Williams sound files (for which enthusiasm is in the top twenty results, according to google.de), I went rummaging for some, but I found nothing to compare with my venerable vinyl … more…

Posted on November 11, 2002 by pilgrim

Posted in humour | Tagged Comedy, humour, Kenneth-Williams, Peter-Cook, Rambling-Sid-Rumpo | Leave a comment