Friday Night Shite
Poverty of the Commissioning Imagination
I must warn you: Do Not Watch Tonightly. It's a piece of crap. I watched it so you don't have to. Now pay me. It's as if the Channel 4 folk had seen the Daily Show and thought they could could do that! But make it completely parochial and inane and therefore transmute it into something completely and irretrievably pants. "Great!", they must have gone on, whilst congratulating themselves on how good they were at TV and putting in some sweary bits and salty sexual references too: stuff that Jon Stewart can't say and do - thereby doing away with the notion of satire and subtletly.
Jason Manford, who's so ubiquitous at the moment he must be a highly contagious virus that has taken on northern human form, made me smirk with mention of the rich casually eating rhino-burgers and unicorn-burgers, but apart from that the premise of so many skits was as flimsy as pee-soaked bog roll. The fake news was facking diabolical. Some of the jokes and stupid correspondent names made me wince with their sheer unfunniness. The dictators and long beards joke was so lame it was as if it had already been chopped off at its decrepit knees. Not sure if that sentence made sense, but we live in a senseless world so it's staying, m'kay?
I did laugh at Manford a minute ago - before I realised he was 27 years old and was therefore going to infect our screens for decades to come - because I've just seen his Wikipedia page. Apparently "He is a bit of a twat, but alright at times". Good entry.
FE: XVII
1 Which football club was founded in late 1897 by pupils from the Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum school? And which club was founded as a cricket club in 1899 by British expatriates Alfred Edwards and Herbert Kilpin, who came from Nottingham?
2 Which 1874 poem features a crew consisting of ten members, whose descriptions all begin with the letter B: a Bellman (the leader), a Boots, a Bonnet-maker, a Barrister, a Broker, a Billiard-marker, a Banker, a Beaver, a Baker, and a Butcher?
3 Growing in Mexico and the southwestern U.S., which chilli pepper is sometimes called the "mother of all peppers," because it is thought to be the oldest form in the Capsicum annuum species?
4 Released on December 6, 1956 by Paramount Pictures, what was the last film Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made together?
5 A problem proposed by ancient geometers, what task was proven to be impossible in 1882, as a consequence of the fact that pi (π) is a transcendental, rather than algebraic irrational number; that is, it is not the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients? It had been known for some decades before then that if π were transcendental then the construction would be impossible, but that π is transcendental was not proven until 1882.
D
A
D
A
D
A
D
A
D
A
D
A
FE: XVI
1 Juventus then Sport Club Juventus; AC Milan 2 The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) 3 Chiltepin 4 Hollywood or Bust 5 Squaring the circle
I must warn you: Do Not Watch Tonightly. It's a piece of crap. I watched it so you don't have to. Now pay me. It's as if the Channel 4 folk had seen the Daily Show and thought they could could do that! But make it completely parochial and inane and therefore transmute it into something completely and irretrievably pants. "Great!", they must have gone on, whilst congratulating themselves on how good they were at TV and putting in some sweary bits and salty sexual references too: stuff that Jon Stewart can't say and do - thereby doing away with the notion of satire and subtletly.
Jason Manford, who's so ubiquitous at the moment he must be a highly contagious virus that has taken on northern human form, made me smirk with mention of the rich casually eating rhino-burgers and unicorn-burgers, but apart from that the premise of so many skits was as flimsy as pee-soaked bog roll. The fake news was facking diabolical. Some of the jokes and stupid correspondent names made me wince with their sheer unfunniness. The dictators and long beards joke was so lame it was as if it had already been chopped off at its decrepit knees. Not sure if that sentence made sense, but we live in a senseless world so it's staying, m'kay?
I did laugh at Manford a minute ago - before I realised he was 27 years old and was therefore going to infect our screens for decades to come - because I've just seen his Wikipedia page. Apparently "He is a bit of a twat, but alright at times". Good entry.
FE: XVII
1 Which football club was founded in late 1897 by pupils from the Massimo D'Azeglio Lyceum school? And which club was founded as a cricket club in 1899 by British expatriates Alfred Edwards and Herbert Kilpin, who came from Nottingham?
2 Which 1874 poem features a crew consisting of ten members, whose descriptions all begin with the letter B: a Bellman (the leader), a Boots, a Bonnet-maker, a Barrister, a Broker, a Billiard-marker, a Banker, a Beaver, a Baker, and a Butcher?
3 Growing in Mexico and the southwestern U.S., which chilli pepper is sometimes called the "mother of all peppers," because it is thought to be the oldest form in the Capsicum annuum species?
4 Released on December 6, 1956 by Paramount Pictures, what was the last film Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis made together?
5 A problem proposed by ancient geometers, what task was proven to be impossible in 1882, as a consequence of the fact that pi (π) is a transcendental, rather than algebraic irrational number; that is, it is not the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients? It had been known for some decades before then that if π were transcendental then the construction would be impossible, but that π is transcendental was not proven until 1882.
D
A
D
A
D
A
D
A
D
A
D
A
FE: XVI
1 Juventus then Sport Club Juventus; AC Milan 2 The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) 3 Chiltepin 4 Hollywood or Bust 5 Squaring the circle
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