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Richard Dawkins: Life is astonishing (Lecture)
Permalink: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=14419A3C7AF4A0A5 -- A large crowd turned out at the Christchurch Town Hall to hear noted author, biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins. "It's an astonishing stroke of luck that we are here." That was the evolutionary message of author, biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins to a packed auditorium at the Christchurch Town Hall in march. However, it seemed shared by most of the capacity 2500 audience, who ensured Dawkins lived up to his billing as the "rock star of neo-atheism" as they cheered him on to the stage and gave him a standing ovation. -stuff.co.nz
Bill Bailey's Playlist
Permalink: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B4DFABB21477734D | Bits and pieces, mainly musical, from the legendary man.
Comic's Choice
Permalink: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=556C0F47F940BB48 | A companion series to The British Comedy Awards, which is being broadcast nightly in the run-up to the main awards ceremony. Comic's Choice is a celebration of comedy and great comedic talents.
Bill Bailey hosts the show. In each episode he chats with a British A-list comedian about which comedy performers, actors and shows they consider to be the greatest.
The guest, given the pick of history and the present day, creates his/her own fantasy line-up of nominees and winners for categories echoing those of The British Comedy Awards.
Covering topics such as 'Best Sitcom', 'Best Male Television Comic' and so on, with clips to illustrate each nominee, each guest says who they love, what makes them laugh and reveals their guilty pleasures.
Producers say: "With other smaller, alternative categories and audience interaction thrown in, the show is not just informative and entertaining - but fun, funny and memorable."
Bill Bailey hosts the show. In each episode he chats with a British A-list comedian about which comedy performers, actors and shows they consider to be the greatest.
The guest, given the pick of history and the present day, creates his/her own fantasy line-up of nominees and winners for categories echoing those of The British Comedy Awards.
Covering topics such as 'Best Sitcom', 'Best Male Television Comic' and so on, with clips to illustrate each nominee, each guest says who they love, what makes them laugh and reveals their guilty pleasures.
Producers say: "With other smaller, alternative categories and audience interaction thrown in, the show is not just informative and entertaining - but fun, funny and memorable."
The Day Today & Brass Eye
Permalink: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7D3BDA24B422A516 | "Without doubt the most important satirical show of the 1990s.
The Day Today was the programme that - under writer/producer Armando Iannucci - launched the talents of Patrick Marber, Doon Mackichan, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Front and, of course, Chris Morris firmly into the public eye. It was a sign of the times that, where series such as That Was The Week That Was and Not the Nine O'Clock News dealt with current affairs, The Day Today focused with laser-like intensity upon the current affairs media.
Each episode was presented as a very real news programme, right down to the ludicrously overblown graphics that appeared between each item (whose creators had, incidentally, just finished designing the graphics for the ITN News) and was presided over by Chris Morris in the sneeringly macho style of a youthful Jeremy Paxman.
While Morris bellowed out news headlines about thefts of the pound and its replacement by an emergency currency based on the Queen's eggs, the rest of the show was delivered by a cast of news-programme stereotypes still instantly recognisable today." - BBC Comedy Guide
"Brass Eye was a UK television series of satirical spoof documentaries. Brass Eye aroused controversy because public figures were fooled into supporting fictitious and often absurd, charities and causes."
- Wiki
The Day Today was the programme that - under writer/producer Armando Iannucci - launched the talents of Patrick Marber, Doon Mackichan, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Front and, of course, Chris Morris firmly into the public eye. It was a sign of the times that, where series such as That Was The Week That Was and Not the Nine O'Clock News dealt with current affairs, The Day Today focused with laser-like intensity upon the current affairs media.
Each episode was presented as a very real news programme, right down to the ludicrously overblown graphics that appeared between each item (whose creators had, incidentally, just finished designing the graphics for the ITN News) and was presided over by Chris Morris in the sneeringly macho style of a youthful Jeremy Paxman.
While Morris bellowed out news headlines about thefts of the pound and its replacement by an emergency currency based on the Queen's eggs, the rest of the show was delivered by a cast of news-programme stereotypes still instantly recognisable today." - BBC Comedy Guide
"Brass Eye was a UK television series of satirical spoof documentaries. Brass Eye aroused controversy because public figures were fooled into supporting fictitious and often absurd, charities and causes."
- Wiki
I'm Alan Partridge
Permalink: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=224BA54C223C528A | I'm Alan Partridge is a BBC situation comedy starring Steve Coogan of which two series of six episodes were produced — the first in 1997 and the second in 2002.
The series followed the titular Alan Partridge, a failed television presenter whose previous exploits had featured in the chat-show parody Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge, and who is now presenting a programme on local radio in Norwich.
Both series were written by Peter Baynham, Coogan and Armando Iannucci; supporting Coogan were Felicity Montagu as his faithful, mouse-like personal assistant, Lynn Benfield; Simon Greenall as Geordie Travel Tavern handyman/BP garage attendant Michael; and Phil Cornwell as disc jockey (DJ) Dave Clifton.
The series followed the titular Alan Partridge, a failed television presenter whose previous exploits had featured in the chat-show parody Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge, and who is now presenting a programme on local radio in Norwich.
Both series were written by Peter Baynham, Coogan and Armando Iannucci; supporting Coogan were Felicity Montagu as his faithful, mouse-like personal assistant, Lynn Benfield; Simon Greenall as Geordie Travel Tavern handyman/BP garage attendant Michael; and Phil Cornwell as disc jockey (DJ) Dave Clifton.
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil [PC]
Permalink: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6C22EAF5230F132C - This is a guide for Turok 2: Seeds of Evil and is partly a way to make sure I finish the game just one time at least. Make sure you point out anything you think I've missed.
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