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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Reviews Reviews Reviews!
posted by clake at 8:41 PM
In answer to those who might say that there is anything in the "real" lives of me or other such "actual people" that needs commenting on in my blog, I say "pfeh!" Instead, here are reviews of stuff from the TeeVee:
I've discovered a sketch comedy program called Little Britain, which is quite hilarious. It is especially recommended for the comic sensibility of Aeryk. Below is a clip from YouTube, featuring a Scottish innkeeper who has an unusual tendencie to speak in riddles. Please ignore the subtitles - they are unique to this YouTube clip and do not in any way add to the humor, unless your primary spoken language is French:
Having seen pretty much all of Kids in the Hall, going back and watching the old episodes - while still funny - is never quite the same as it once was. This show is like discovering Kids in the Hall again for the first time. Like Kids, this show relies heavily on recurring characters interacting in an absurdist version of reality. Other characters include a very unconvincing transvestite, a schoolmaster who is very dull indeed, and "the only gay man" in a small, Welsh villiage. As a word of warning, one recurring pair of characters might give Yankees the pip: Two blackface minstrels who are constantly discriminated against for being blackface minstrels. One can see how these sketches are a clever, ironic twist the exposes racism as the absurd notion that it is, but American viewers will - like me - recoil at the imagery. But these are very brief sketches. The rest of the show is excellent.
Also, Tom Baker (Doctor Who number four) is the narrator. This is quite a coincidence considering my increased interest in Doctor Who of late. Episode Three contains a very direct reference: "With nothing to watch but repeats on the telly of Doctor Who, Medics, and that episode of Blackadder II I was on, Lou and Andy go to rent a video."
They end up getting Pride and Prejudice, but if they were in the midst of the same Whofascination that I am, they might instead have chosen "The Pirate Planet". I screened this Douglas Adams episode of Who in my very home this past Saturday afternoon. It was indeed zany and convoluted, as is Adams' style. I liked it. I particularly enjoyed K-9 and the robot parrot engaging in a knock-down, drag-out "inarticulate robot animal fight".
Bonus Review: I am currently eating a Jello pudding strawberry cheesecake dish of some sort invented by my wife this very night. Cracking good! I recommend heartily!
Bonus Youtube Bonus Bonus: It's hard to ride a train in Britain dressed as Doctor Who.
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