... played out against the backdrop of the 'Carry On' films during the 1960s and 1970s.
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contra omnia discrimina
Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Kenneth Williams, Fantabulosa!
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Part 2
Part 3
UNAVAILABLE, sorry Part 4
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Part 7
Part 8
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UNAVAILABLE, sorry Part 4
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Saturday, 25 December 2010
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Exclusive: Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!
Official Trailer:
Song: "The Word Is Love" from the movie "Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!"
They say mothers are the first to know. Mums can also the first to deny - even when the signs are obvious. Add stunting family expectations to a mother's nose for trouble, and happiness might not be as close as expected. So is the case in the new romantic comedy Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!, starring Carmen Electra, Lanie Kazan, John Lloyd Young, Jai Rodriguez, Saul Robinek, and Vincent Pastore. Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay! is the story of the Hirsch's, a Jewish family living in the North Shore of Long Island, where every Friday night Shirley Hirsch (Lainie Kazan) invites another "perfect" girl for Shabbat dinner in hopes that her son, Nelson (John Lloyd Young), will marry a nice Jewish girl. When Shirley and Martin (Saul Rubinek) once again set him up on a date, Nelson reveals that he is already seeing someone. Shirley and Martin are thrilled and can't wait to meet the lucky lady... But, soon learn Nelson's perfect mate isn't what they expected at all.... [RP] USA Screenings start 24/12/2010. UK dates to be confirmed.. www.oyveymysonisgay.com
Song: "The Word Is Love" from the movie "Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!"
They say mothers are the first to know. Mums can also the first to deny - even when the signs are obvious. Add stunting family expectations to a mother's nose for trouble, and happiness might not be as close as expected. So is the case in the new romantic comedy Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!, starring Carmen Electra, Lanie Kazan, John Lloyd Young, Jai Rodriguez, Saul Robinek, and Vincent Pastore. Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay! is the story of the Hirsch's, a Jewish family living in the North Shore of Long Island, where every Friday night Shirley Hirsch (Lainie Kazan) invites another "perfect" girl for Shabbat dinner in hopes that her son, Nelson (John Lloyd Young), will marry a nice Jewish girl. When Shirley and Martin (Saul Rubinek) once again set him up on a date, Nelson reveals that he is already seeing someone. Shirley and Martin are thrilled and can't wait to meet the lucky lady... But, soon learn Nelson's perfect mate isn't what they expected at all.... [RP] USA Screenings start 24/12/2010. UK dates to be confirmed.. www.oyveymysonisgay.com
Thursday, 25 November 2010
The Most Amazing Guitar Playing Boy There Ever Was
I want an interview with the original genius-guy who created this surprisingly brilliant masterpiece - contact me above - let's talk! contra omnia discrimina
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Monday, 18 October 2010
Saturday, 16 October 2010
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Sunday, 4 April 2010
The 10 best female comedians
Victoria Wood
The grande dame of British women stand-ups, Wood has featured character comedy, jokes, sketches and songs and draws heavily on her Lancashire roots and keen observations of ordinary women's experiences. Though she is best known for her television work and has won Baftas for writing and straight acting, Wood also won the best live stand-up category at the British Comedy Awards in 1991 and 2001. Her best-loved song is "The Ballad of Barry and Freda", a hymn to middle-aged sexual frustration that features the unforgettable line: "Beat me on the bottom with a Woman's Weekly."
Sarah Silverman
Silverman, 39, has forged a career out of upending political correctness and challenging complacent Eeast coast liberalism. "I don't care if you think I'm racist," she once said, in response to a high-profile complaint about her comedy. "It's more important that you think I'm thin." Silverman's satire is scalpel-sharp, often drawing on her Jewish heritage in her stage persona to ridicule bigotry. In 2008, she won an Emmy for her song "I'm Fucking Matt Damon", performed as a duet with Damon as a spoof confession to her then-boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel on his show Jimmy Kimmel Live! Her autobiography The Bedwetter (Faber) is out now.
Joan Rivers
Whatever you think of Joan Rivers' comedy, you have to admire the durability of her career. Born in 1933, from the mid-1950s she spent a decade braving Greenwich Village clubs in an entertainment world dominated by men, before her first television break on The Johnny Carson Show in 1965. "I was insanely persistent," she says. Rivers rightly regards herself as a pioneer, her brassy persona creating a brand of self-deprecating humour that opened the way for women after her to talk on stage about subjects once regarded as unsuitable for women or comedy.
Shappi Khorsandi
Iranian-born Khorsandi moved to London with her family when her father, satirist Hadi Khorsandi, was deemed an "enemy of the revolution" for his writing. Much of her early comedy drew on her childhood experiences of the culture clash and of the death threats against her father, but she also focuses on more everyday observations of life and relationships, giving audiences the impression that they're chatting with an old friend who can be charming and waspish in the same breath. Khorsandi has lent her support to various free-expression campaigns and has twice appeared on Question Time.
Lucy Porter
Diminutive Porter has been a regular on the stand-up circuit for almost a decade and her Edinburgh shows have delighted audiences for almost as long. Her breezy delivery and fondness for interacting with the audience (she usually gives away sweets during her shows) is often a means of slipping more serious ideas under the radar; previous shows have seen her attempting to grapple with economics, morality and love. She also writes for a variety of television comedy shows and appears regularly on panel shows such as Mock the Week and Have I Got News for You.
Josie Long
Long, 27, represents a new, lo-fi kind of female performer. Diffident, proudly nerdy and offbeat, with her often childlike air of wonderment, she has won over a fanbase tired of cynical, wilfully offensive comedy. Long began stand-up at the age of 14 and won the BBC new comedy award at 17. After graduating from Oxford, she performed at experimental comedy clubs and toured with Stewart Lee as his warm-up act in 2005 before winning the if.comedy (formerly the Perrier) newcomer award in 2006 with her first Edinburgh show. She is also hugely popular in Australia, where she is a regular at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
Laura Solon
Solon made headlines in 2005 when she became only the second woman to win the Perrier comedy award, at the age of 26. She'd begun performing with the Oxford Revue while an undergraduate, where she had decided that character comedy suited her better than straight stand-up. Her shows feature an array of surreal characters and have been praised for their originality. After the Perrier win, Solon was quickly signed up by the BBC to develop comedy projects and has written and performed three series of her Radio 4 show, Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking, as well as appearing with Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse in their television shows.
Gina Yashere
Yashere turned to comedy after working as a lift engineer, completed her first tour in 2000 and has toured successfully ever since. In 2002, she was voted best female act at the Black Comedy awards and nominated best female stand-up at the Chortle awards. Her big break came in 2007 when she became one of the 10 finalists in the NBC reality show, Last Comic Standing, which brought her to a US audience and in 2008 she was the first British comic to appear on the influential black comedy show, Def Comedy Jam. She has since branched out into acting and has recently recorded a comedy special for US channel Showtime.
Sarah Millican
Newcastle-born Millican started performing comedy at the age of 29 and her early sets were largely based around the experience of her recent divorce. Her combination of a warm delivery with eye-wateringly explicit material about sex and relationships proved hugely appealing, and she accumulated many award nominations as she worked the club circuit before taking her solo show to the Edinburgh fringe in 2008, where she won the if.comedy best newcomer award. Her first Radio 4 series, Sarah Millican's Support Group, aired earlier this year and she has appeared on numerous television panel shows.
Miranda Hart
Most recently seen in her own BBC2 sitcom, Miranda, and taking part in the million-pound bike ride for Sport Relief, Hart is an accomplished actress and comic whose one-woman shows have been a highlight of the Edinburgh fringe for the past 10 years. She first took what she describes as "a terrible show" to Edinburgh in 1994 and decided that if it got one OK review and one night with more than 20 people, she would try comedy for a living. When one audience reached 21, she was committed. Her material is largely character- and sketch-based and often draws on her physical attributes – she is 6ft 1inch tall.
Saturday, 27 February 2010
YOU MAY BE A NURSE IF... (please add your own funny comment!)
YOU MAY BE A NURSE IF... You believe that every patient needs TLC: Temazepam, Lorazepam and Chlorpromazine You would like to meet the inventor of the nurse call-buzzer system night in a dark alley. You believe not all patients are annoying, some are unconscious. You know the phone number of every late night delivery place by heart. When asked by the doctor what colour the patient's diarrhoea was, you show
them your shoes. If they missed your shoes, you use the well known "poo curry colour scale" ranging from chicken Korma to Spinach Vindaloo. You can identify the different causes of diarrhoea by the smell. Your sense of humour gets more warped every year. The kids get their presents in TED stockings, and NHS pillowcases. Anybody's
presents are usually wrapped with Micropore or Transpore tape. Almost anything can seem funny? eventually. Every time you walk you make a jingling noise because of all the scissors, keys and clamps in your pockets. You can tell the pharmacist more about the medication they are dispensing than they know. You check the caller ID on your day off to see if anyone from work is trying to call and beg you to work. You've been telling stories in a restaurant and made someone at another table throw up. You don't get concerned about blood unless it's your own. You notice that you are using more 4-letter words than you did before you started nursing. Every time someone asks you for a pen you can find at least 4 of them on you. Most of them have laxative drug names written on them. You've basted your Christmas turkey with a 50ml syringe You refuse to watch Casualty because its too much like the real thing or it
triggers flashbacks, or; Your family refuse to let you watch Casualty
because you spend the whole time correcting everyone and everything, and
pointing out mistakes like upside down x-rays. You have seriously considered catheterising yourself before a clubbing
night, or your children before a long car journey. You've told a confused patient that your name was that of your colleague and to scream if they need help. Eating microwave popcorn or crisps out of a clean bedpan/sick bowl is
perfectly normal. Your bladder can expand to the size of a Winnebago's water tank. You avoid unhealthy looking shoppers in the shopping centre for fear that
they will drop near you and you'll have to do CPR on your day off. You hate to get dressed in "real clothes" because scrubs are what you live
in, and why can't they make jeans that comfortable. You find yourself checking other peoples veins in the supermarket When checking a patients orientation, YOU don't know if its night or day,
or what day/year/month it is. You often stay awake for 24+ hours at a time when you work nights and
realise that you don't need drugs or alcohol to hallucinate; just lack of
sleep. You pull over in a lay-by after nights because you are too tired to drive
home. You only wake up when someone is banging on your window because they
think you've had a stroke when the see the trail of dribble sliding down
the window Your finger has gone places you never thought possible. You have seen more penises than any prostitute has. ***
Anymore? Add your own and pass them back to me! Ryan x
them your shoes. If they missed your shoes, you use the well known "poo curry colour scale" ranging from chicken Korma to Spinach Vindaloo. You can identify the different causes of diarrhoea by the smell. Your sense of humour gets more warped every year. The kids get their presents in TED stockings, and NHS pillowcases. Anybody's
presents are usually wrapped with Micropore or Transpore tape. Almost anything can seem funny? eventually. Every time you walk you make a jingling noise because of all the scissors, keys and clamps in your pockets. You can tell the pharmacist more about the medication they are dispensing than they know. You check the caller ID on your day off to see if anyone from work is trying to call and beg you to work. You've been telling stories in a restaurant and made someone at another table throw up. You don't get concerned about blood unless it's your own. You notice that you are using more 4-letter words than you did before you started nursing. Every time someone asks you for a pen you can find at least 4 of them on you. Most of them have laxative drug names written on them. You've basted your Christmas turkey with a 50ml syringe You refuse to watch Casualty because its too much like the real thing or it
triggers flashbacks, or; Your family refuse to let you watch Casualty
because you spend the whole time correcting everyone and everything, and
pointing out mistakes like upside down x-rays. You have seriously considered catheterising yourself before a clubbing
night, or your children before a long car journey. You've told a confused patient that your name was that of your colleague and to scream if they need help. Eating microwave popcorn or crisps out of a clean bedpan/sick bowl is
perfectly normal. Your bladder can expand to the size of a Winnebago's water tank. You avoid unhealthy looking shoppers in the shopping centre for fear that
they will drop near you and you'll have to do CPR on your day off. You hate to get dressed in "real clothes" because scrubs are what you live
in, and why can't they make jeans that comfortable. You find yourself checking other peoples veins in the supermarket When checking a patients orientation, YOU don't know if its night or day,
or what day/year/month it is. You often stay awake for 24+ hours at a time when you work nights and
realise that you don't need drugs or alcohol to hallucinate; just lack of
sleep. You pull over in a lay-by after nights because you are too tired to drive
home. You only wake up when someone is banging on your window because they
think you've had a stroke when the see the trail of dribble sliding down
the window Your finger has gone places you never thought possible. You have seen more penises than any prostitute has. ***
Anymore? Add your own and pass them back to me! Ryan x
Friday, 15 January 2010
THE GLEE CLUB, BIRMINGHAM THE MIDLANDS' PREMIER COMEDY & MUSIC VENUE, featuring Kathryn Williams
Here's the initial line-up for the Glee Club in Birmingham, which features Kathryn Williams on tour, with the launch of her new album, "The Quickening"
MON 18 JANFYFE DANGERFIELD (GUILLEMOTS) - last few tickets!
+ VILLAGERS (Conor – solo set)
(Album - Fly Yellow Moon & Single - She Needs Me) "A revelatory solo debut album from the Guillemots main man. Dangerfield demonstrates an abundance of talent on a flowing, heartfelt collection that puts big, romantic songs at the core of his experimentalism." Telegraph
GET A TASTER >www.myspace.com/fyfedangerfield
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TUE 19 JAN
ANAIS MITCHELL + ERIN McKEOWN
(Righteous Babe Records - Ani Di Franco - double-headline show) "Fearlessly emotive... Like Dylan, Cohen, and Welch, Mitchell weaves her stories into an effortlessly beautiful and cohesive tapestry with the skill of an artisan's carpenter, showing no seams." – Acoustic Guitar "In several distinctive ways - voice, dynamic subtlety, and sheer songwriting ability - Erin McKeown is in a class of her own."- Sunday Times
GET A TASTER >www.myspace.com/erinmckeownwww.myspace.com/anaismitchell
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SUN 31 JAN
HAMEL (9-piece band)
+ LEDDRA CHAPMAN (recent guest for Roachford)
(See You Once Again - as heard on BBC iPlayer) Hamel's sound is unusual, a complex mixture of inspirations. One of his mentors was Jon Hendricks, American jazz legend, Hamel did workshops with him. He says "But at the same time I would like to listen to PJ Harvey, Jeff Buckley, Peggy Lee, who is very sexy and strict and melancholic, but I also like Prince and Carmen McRae."
GET A TASTER >www.myspace.com/hamelmusic
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SUN 07 FEB
JESCA HOOP
(toured with ELBOW & was TOM WAITS' nanny) (Album 'Hunting My Dress' out now on Last Laugh) "Like going swimming in a lake at night" TOM WAITS "By turns soulful & contemplative, spirited & witty, Hoop effortlessly shifts emotional gear, a striking ability to meld the traditional and the contemporary & her forceful, crystalline voice the constants" Time Out "Good enough to compare to the more wholesome elements of The White Album, Joanna Newsom's Ys and Elbow's quieter moments" (Guy Garvey sings on 'Murder of Birds') – The Guardian "So startlingly original, whose writing is so stamped with her personality and history. Hunting My Dress, confirms her as one of alternative folk-pop's most arresting recent arrivals, sings like an outcast angel and writes like a restless explorer" Culture – The Sunday Times
GET A TASTER >www.myspace.com/jescahoop
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THU 11 FEB
IAN KING BAND
(folk collaboration with Adrian Sherwodd & Little Axe)
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WED 17 FEB
BETH JEANS HOUGHTON & STORNOWAY (TWISTED FOLK tour)
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THU 18 FEB
6 DAY RIOT
(recently toured with Seth Lakeman)
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FRI 19 FEB
ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL
(feat Simon Tong (The Verve) & recently supported THE LEISURE SOCIETY)
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SUN 21 FEB
KATHRYN WILLIAMS
(new album - The Quickening)
ryan@kathrynwilliams.co.uk
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MON 22 FEB
PETER GREEN & FRIENDS (FLEETWOOD MAC)
Seated show
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TUE 02 MAR
TOM McRAE
(new album - The Alphabet Of Hurricanes)
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THU 04 MAR
THE MISERABLE RICH & DAN WHITEHOUSE
"their lush orchestro-folk is heartbreakingly beautiful" NME
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TUE 09 MAR
TURIN BRAKES
(new album due out on Cooking Vinyl records)
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SUN 14 MAR
LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE
(Rufus & Martha's sister)
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THU 08 APR
JOHN SMITH
(recent support to Lou Rhodes & David Gray)
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SUN 11 APR
Unknown Pleasures with
PETER HOOK (NEW ORDER) & compere for the evening – HOWARD MARKS
The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club - spoken word / multi media show
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FRI 16 APR
TINY TIN LADY
"Absolutely marvellous" Robert Plant "A joy to hear" Fairport Convention
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SUN 18 APR
ADRIAN EDMONDSON & THE BAD SHEPHERDS
Punk songs on folk intruments - genius
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SUN 23 MAY
PO' GIRL
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Check www.glee.co.uk for artist profiles, weblinks, downloads, videos - as much as we can find.
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ALSO LOOK OUT FOR SHOWS FROM
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GRANT LEE PHILLIPS, MELODY MELODICA & ME, KIRSTY ALMEIDA, MICK FLANNERY, KATE WALSH, EVAN DANDO (Lemonheads), ANGUS & JULIA STONE (20/4)
AND SOME OTHER SHOWS WE RECOMMEND FROM FRIENDS:
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SUN 07 FEB
THE LOW ANTHEM - 02 ACADEMY
the glee show was stunning, as is their 'Oh My God, Charlie Darwin' album
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WED 10 FEB
YASMIN LEVY - TOWN HALL
combines the purity of Ladino & fiery heart of flamenco
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MON 19 APR
MELODY GARDOT - SYMPHONY HALL
who's last show in B'ham was Glee Studio!
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Hope you can join us, Cheers!
Glee Music Team
THE GLEE CLUB
THE ARCADIAN
BIRMINGHAM
B5 4TD
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BOOKINGS / FULL LIVE COMEDY & MUSIC LISTINGS / ENQUIRIES FROM0871 472 0400 OR WWW.GLEE.CO.UK
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PLUS THE BEST IN LIVE COMEDY EVERY THU - FRI - SAT + SOME GREAT COMEDY TOUR SHOWS ON SALE NOW - seewww.glee.co.uk for full listings
--
MON 22 FEB
PETER GREEN & FRIENDS (FLEETWOOD MAC)
Seated show
--
TUE 02 MAR
TOM McRAE
(new album - The Alphabet Of Hurricanes)
--
THU 04 MAR
THE MISERABLE RICH & DAN WHITEHOUSE
"their lush orchestro-folk is heartbreakingly beautiful" NME
--
TUE 09 MAR
TURIN BRAKES
(new album due out on Cooking Vinyl records)
--
SUN 14 MAR
LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE
(Rufus & Martha's sister)
--
THU 08 APR
JOHN SMITH
(recent support to Lou Rhodes & David Gray)
--
SUN 11 APR
Unknown Pleasures with
PETER HOOK (NEW ORDER) & compere for the evening – HOWARD MARKS
The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club - spoken word / multi media show
--
FRI 16 APR
TINY TIN LADY
"Absolutely marvellous" Robert Plant "A joy to hear" Fairport Convention
--
SUN 18 APR
ADRIAN EDMONDSON & THE BAD SHEPHERDS
Punk songs on folk intruments - genius
--
SUN 23 MAY
PO' GIRL
--
Check www.glee.co.uk for artist profiles, weblinks, downloads, videos - as much as we can find.
--
ALSO LOOK OUT FOR SHOWS FROM
--
GRANT LEE PHILLIPS, MELODY MELODICA & ME, KIRSTY ALMEIDA, MICK FLANNERY, KATE WALSH, EVAN DANDO (Lemonheads), ANGUS & JULIA STONE (20/4)
AND SOME OTHER SHOWS WE RECOMMEND FROM FRIENDS:
--
SUN 07 FEB
THE LOW ANTHEM - 02 ACADEMY
the glee show was stunning, as is their 'Oh My God, Charlie Darwin' album
--
WED 10 FEB
YASMIN LEVY - TOWN HALL
combines the purity of Ladino & fiery heart of flamenco
--
MON 19 APR
MELODY GARDOT - SYMPHONY HALL
who's last show in B'ham was Glee Studio!
--
Hope you can join us, Cheers!
Glee Music Team
THE GLEE CLUB
THE ARCADIAN
BIRMINGHAM
B5 4TD
----
BOOKINGS / FULL LIVE COMEDY & MUSIC LISTINGS / ENQUIRIES FROM0871 472 0400 OR WWW.GLEE.CO.UK
----
PLUS THE BEST IN LIVE COMEDY EVERY THU - FRI - SAT + SOME GREAT COMEDY TOUR SHOWS ON SALE NOW - seewww.glee.co.uk for full listings
Monday, 11 January 2010
Bubble's Best Bits
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