50k-entertain: May 2011

31.5.11

Gas expulsion

We've got chemistry

Comfort level

Not ideal....

Big Tobacco cares about you.....

links:

You Tube (unlisted)
Quit Victoria

30.5.11

Eddie Murphy - Delirious (1983)

Eddie Murphy did this performance back in 1983

in the style of the time (think Richard Pryor etc) he does violence to political correctness and drops 230 "f-bombs". an amazing talent for impersonations. and such confidence in front of a massive concert/TV audience, its hard to believe he was only 22 year old at the time

part 1 embedded and all 7 parts linked below:

parts 1-7 (some overlap):

http://youtu.be/o2EIra4SYoE
http://youtu.be/H_hWnRhTy3o
http://youtu.be/VOgWQ1jFvFc
http://youtu.be/G42h_FlDBKE
http://youtu.be/vG7rws-gfps
http://youtu.be/zeoF0OxKblc
http://youtu.be/b5SSR5Ybgkk

28.5.11

Muhammad Ali - Parkinson interview

full interview - parts 1-5:

http://youtu.be/QzK_C7UKrss
http://youtu.be/URiho3RBj9Q
http://youtu.be/tC6buvheGsk
http://youtu.be/xIWqUND_5rM
http://youtu.be/nMuQdMbSi4k

Danny Bhoy - Scottish/Indian comedian

...on Scottish food

...on wine

more of him here

Borat - interviews

on Letterman

for the Comedy Relief charity (2007)

Doctor Who: The Power Of The Daleks

this was cutting edge sci-fi back in the late sixties. even on a smaller black and white TV, Daleks used to terrify me as a small kid back then:

until i saw this

26.5.11

I Claudius - BBC series

hard to believe I Caudius first went to air 35 years ago. first rate BBC television historical drama based on the Robert Graves novel of that name. episode 1 is embedded, and all 12 episodes are linked below:

episodes 1 - 12:

Episode 1: http://youtu.be/B9PA_DB9K04
Episode 2: http://youtu.be/_cnk5JJRxqg
Episode 3: http://youtu.be/Qi2Jl_kSyZU
Episode 4: http://youtu.be/HsUvkNAa_34
Episode 5: http://youtu.be/we23M6fCqXk
Episode 6: http://youtu.be/XEN_kk3l1DQ
Episode 7: http://youtu.be/XEN_kk3l1DQ
Episode 8: http://youtu.be/n87w-GklLFE
Episode 9: http://youtu.be/DGLO8OZU1zs
Episode 10: http://youtu.be/OjqSW_-D1wI
Episode 11: http://youtu.be/8zuZov-X8-0
Episode 12: http://youtu.be/DdDRiQYZTa8

if you're keen, here's an 8-part documentary on the the making of the series:

http://youtu.be/og3J_s1-bHc
http://youtu.be/eNAJg_XTqlo
http://youtu.be/Bvt-Jq1jP44
http://youtu.be/iq62an-k2Gk
http://youtu.be/IwuMGvWonH8
http://youtu.be/gNvwVyBHLGk
http://youtu.be/rEG-nN-IGRU
http://youtu.be/pQ7MXq5XUXw

and for the super-keen, here's a second "making of" documentary done 10 years after the first:

http://youtu.be/x-B7ZIDtnXk
http://youtu.be/EzYUisMoj3E
http://youtu.be/xcILOcpacro

"Get a Mac" - truth in advertising....

Apple produced dozens of TV and internet advertisements poking fun at the problems frustrations experienced by Microsoft/PC users - two examples below:

see all the Apple advertisements here:

2009 http://www.fansofapple.com/site/?page_id=2912
2008 http://www.fansofapple.com/site/?page_id=2910
2007 http://www.fansofapple.com/site/?page_id=2906
2006 http://www.fansofapple.com/site/?page_id=2915

or see them here

Worst wipeouts ever

Peter Sellers - "does that include television Sir?"

...opening scenes from "The Party":

the entire film:

part 1: http://youtu.be/t_JWywDqgRs
parts 2-10: ......go here http://www.youtube.com/user/Nerilee27#g/u then search "party"

Spike Milligan - "....put him/her in the curry"

when Daleks get home from work:

Spike Milligan's acceptance speech for a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Comedy Awards in 1994:

the "art" of 1950-60's Lenny Bruce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Bruce ) was first and foremost about truth, as he saw it, with politically correctness at best a casualty:

in 1962 he was banned from performing in Sydney, Australia, where at his first show he took the stage, declared "What a fucking wonderful audience", and was promptly arrested.

while at the same time he freely got away with stuff like this: http://youtu.be/Snkv76rNL

how things have changed - from this http://youtu.be/yOpU0nOd8Us to this http://youtu.be/JZCS5I80X-8 and now this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPNiEKcka_w

review extract on his February, 1961 performance at Carnegie Hall in New York (later released as a three-disc set, titled The Carnegie Hall Concert):

"This was the moment that an obscure yet rapidly rising young comedian named Lenny Bruce chose to give one of the greatest performances of his career. ... The performance contained in this album is that of a child of the jazz age. Lenny worshipped the gods of Spontaneity, Candor and Free Association. He fancied himself an oral jazzman. His ideal was to walk out there like Charlie Parker, take that mike in his hand like a horn and blow, blow, blow everything that came into his head just as it came into his head with nothing censored, nothing translated, nothing mediated, until he was pure mind, pure head sending out brainwaves like radio waves into the heads of every man and woman seated in that vast hall. Sending, sending, sending, he would finally reach a point of clairvoyance where he was no longer a performer but rather a medium transmitting messages that just came to him from out there — from recall, fantasy, prophecy.
A point at which, like the practitioners of automatic writing, his tongue would outrun his mind and he would be saying things he didn't plan to say, things that surprised, delighted him, cracked him up — as if he were a spectator at his own performance!"

Albert Goldman

24.5.11

Mariachi Style

22.5.11

John Hodgman: Aliens, love -- where are they? | Video on TED.com

speaker here is the same guy who personified Microsoft on all those great "I'm a Mac" ads:

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