Posted in Comedy, tagged comedian, Comedy, dom joly, happy, trigger on December 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Dom Joly is not an ordinary comedian! He is genius. He is also a journalist. He has a first-class degree in Arabic and International Politics, and before he became a comedian he was a diplomat and political researcher! But he is a unique comedian! His humor is so anarchic and so surreal, that you’ll [...]
Posted in Comedy, tagged Comedy, curb, david, hbo, larry, seinfeld on December 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Larry David, is a comedy genius. He is the co-creator of the America’s most popular sitcom Seinfeld (1989-1998). The Seinfeld character of George Costanza, played brilliantly by Jason Alexander, was basically based on Larry David. The similarities between the prototype and the character can be apparent in his HBO series Curb your Enthusiasm (2000-). The [...]
Posted in Comedy, Stand Up Comedy, tagged brent, Comedy, extras, gervais, merchant, office, ricky, xfm on December 4, 2007 | No Comments »
Ricky Gervais is a comedy phenomenon. He came, practically from nowhere and conquered the world, in just a few years. With his friend and creating partner Stephen Merchant created The Office, the TV series that “redefined comedy”, which is already a classic. The multiple Golden Globe and BAFTA [...]
Posted in Comedy, tagged christopher, Comedy, eugene levy, guest, mockumentary, spinal tap on December 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Christopher Guest is a brilliant comedian, actor, writer, director, musician. His style of comedy is unique and he has influenced many, many comedians. The genius behind the style of mockumentary, that only now has become so popular, is Christopher Guest. Did I mention he is the 5th Baron Haden-Guest of Saling in the County of [...]
Posted in Comedy, tagged Comedy, fry, laurie, qi, stephen, wilde on December 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Where can you start when you are trying to describe Stephen Fry to someone who hasn’t had the luck to know him. He is the Oscar Wilde of our times and one of my role models. It is impossible not to like Stephen Fry. He is the smartest, but he is not smug. Apparently he [...]
Posted in Comedy, tagged band, bret, Comedy, conchords, flight, jemaine, mel on December 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Flight of the Conchords is about Bret and Jemaine. They are wannabe musicians have left their native New Zealand to try to make it big in their adopted home of New York City. They are the New Zealand’s “fourth most popular folk act“. Their manager Murray (he is so brilliant is unbelievable) whose day job [...]
Posted in Comedy, tagged brass eye, chris, Comedy, day today, morris on December 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Chris Morris has been described as a ‘comedy genius’, and rightfully so. He’s one of the most revered and a unique figures of the ‘new generation’ of comedians. Chris Morris fronted the spoof current affairs shows The Day Today, produced by Armando Iannucci. In this ground breaking series Steve Coogan introduced characters like Alan Partridge [...]
Posted in Comedy, tagged armando, iannucci, partridge, thick of it on December 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Armando Iannucci is one of the most lauded personalities of recent times in British comedy. He is a writer, satirist, a brilliant absurdist, a producer, and a perfomer. Iannucci has an extensive history in British radio and television. He first brought together comics such as Steve Coogan, Chris Morris, Stewart Lee, Peter Baynham, Rebecca Front, [...]
Posted in Comedy, tagged clive, comedian, cook, derek, genius, peter, satire on December 2, 2007 | No Comments »
What was cool in the sixties was The Beatles and Peter Cook. Peter Cook, though, remains cool today. Peter Cook was the King of the British satire boom, [...]
Posted in Comedy, tagged chapman, cleese, Comedy, gilliam, jones, monty, palin, python on December 2, 2007 | No Comments »
The Monty Python team
(Terry Jones, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman) is the most influential group on modern comedy.
Find out stuff about Monty Python.
http://www.pythonline.com/ Official Site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python
http://www.intriguing.com/mp/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063929/
Check them out! (Search, find, watch, buy)
TV Show
Monty Python’s Flying Circus (BBC 1969-1974)
Movies
And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Life of [...]
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