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Was It Something I Said

LB — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 03:06:00 +0000

This new quiz is not going to help my little problem staying away from English comedy panel shows. Not only is this on top of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You and too many others to mention, it’s hosted by David Mitchell and stars the hilarious, nerdy, dreamboatish Richard Ayoade.

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Luxury Comedy

LB — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:12:17 +0000

I nearly had a stroke when I first saw Luxury Comedy, and not in a good way, despite being a fan of The Mighty Boosh and Noel Fielding.

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Jam hot

LB — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:22:32 +0000

Also, this and this.

Photos via fuckyeahnoelfielding. Below, Fielding and Julian Barrett of The Mighty Boosh; at bottom, Fielding in a famous pairing with Russell Brand on the BBC’s Big Fat Quiz as the team “The Goth Detectives.”

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Dylan Moran – “and then we go home to our lovely… tiles.”

LB — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:00:18 +0000

I saw Dylan Moran perform at the Edingburgh festival in the mid 1990s. In an moment of near infatuation or more accurately addiction I had to go back the next night and see him do the same show again.

John Cleese on creativity

LB — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:00:48 +0000

Sleep on it.

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“I’m afraid your novel is unsuitable for us at the present time.”

LB — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:42:49 +0000

From Black Books, Irish comedian Dylan Moran’s British TV series. Moran played Bernard Black, misanthropic second-hand bookshop owner. See also another episode in which Bernard, unable to figure out his tax forms, learns that he will receive an extension for filing his return only in the event of injury, so seeks injury by provoking skinheads.

Maria Bamford

LB — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:49:42 +0000

When she was younger, comedian Maria Bamford played a Star Trek character in a touring show that visited malls across the USA doing things like Jack in the Box promotions. She played a Bajoran – you know, those people from the planet Bajor in Deep Space Nine:

“Greetings!

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Spring’s weltschmerz

LB — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:56:01 +0000

The strange, familiar oppressiveness of falling cherry blossoms in Vancouver.

Sorry about the quality.

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Canada’s Shanghai Expo 2010 architect is…Cirque du Soleil.

LB — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:57:19 +0000

Seemingly impossible, but true. Similar to the way the statement “Arnold Schwarzenegger is Governor of California” is true. The Canadian Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai is to be designed by Cirque du Soleil’s in-house designer.

There was a ship and it was going to crash into the mothership.

LB — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:11:43 +0000

Screenshot from the internet. Dialogue between man-boy and his girlfriend: