2015
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Very Semi-Serious
After watching Leah Wolchok’s fascinating look behind the scenes of The New Yorker’s celebrated Cartoon Department and having this mini crash course into its workings, it makes you have a great deal of respect to all the rather eccentric men (and a few women) whose lives are solely all about getting their ‘funnies’ published in this…
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Saeed Jaffrey : R.I.P.
The veteran Indian born British actor Saeed Jaffrey died at his home in London yesterday aged 86. This international star of both British and Bollywood movies had a very successful career that stretched back over 50 years and included such notable movies as ‘The Man Who Would Be King’, ‘A Passage to India’, ‘Gandhi’ etc.…
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Two Naked French Men & A Couple of Towels
Timing is everything as these two French chaps will testify. We thought as everyone needs some distraction right now, it would a perfect moment to revisit their live performance on French TV when Les Beaux Freres bravely danced juggling with just a pair of towels, and their dignity, in this hilarious routine. We know that…
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Brits Go Sentimental over Christmas
Christmas is still THE biggest holiday of the year for Brits and the one time that the purse strings are well and truly loosened. To make sure this happens the big Stores spend millions (in John Lewis’s case exactly £7 million) on spectacular Television adverts to pull at everyone’s heart strings. Sainsburys have just released…
