The Guardian/BBC/The Telegraph. I had heard through a friend of Barry’s that Barry wasn’t doing well. I’d been in correspondence with this friend who alerted me to Barry’s appreciation of Frederick Rolfe’s Hadrian the Seventh, an edited volume that I’m currently working on. Barry was to have provided some blurb for the book. barry humphriescomedydudley…
‘Still funny, still unpredictable, still annoying all the right people’: Private Eye, 60 years on — The Telegraph. free speechhumourpeter cookprivate eyesatire
Belated birthday thoughts for the wonderful late John Dunsworth. This book is a must have for fans of John and of course his immortal alter ego, Mr. Jim Lahey. alcoholhumourJohn Dunsworthsatiretrailer park boys
*noun. /ˈpɪlək/ ˈpɪlək/ (British slang), a more polite version of dickhead or fuckwit. Colin Pillock: Tell me, Mr. Perrin, are you running this community for the benefit of humanity, or simply to make money, or is it a giant confidence trick? Reggie Perrin: Yes. CP: I hope you’re not going to tie yourself to this monosyllabic…
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Guardian article from 4 years ago. MAD has long-since lost it’s “humourific” mojo but Jaffee never lost his. I treasure his Snappy Answers collection. al jaffeehumourmad magazinesatire
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Born on this day. Nobbs’ novels were the basis of the TV series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, a scathing precursor to Ricky Gervais’ The Office. Below is a clip of what I’d term a Cathy Newman (Colin Pillock) moment. david nobbshumourreginald perrinricky gervaissatirethe office
Jonathan Pie’s (Tom Walker) brutal and delicious scathing of regressives of all stripes but his full on excoriation (from around 36:30) is reserved for the regressive Left — check it out. (If this is blocked, it’s available here, at least for the time being). free speechhumourjonathan pieregressive leftsatiretom walker
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