Showing posts with label John Cleese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Cleese. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Prunella Scales in Hobson's Choice (1952)

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Prunella Scales died yesterday at the age of 93. We all remember her as Sybil Fawlty, and in his DVD commentaries on the series, John Cleese...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Marion Mould jumps The Sound of Music on Monty Python

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The other day I used Bluesky to pass on some of Lord Bonkers' table talk: Lord Bonkers writes: What all this nonsense about Katy Perry ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

What is it that make some names of places or people funny?

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  "He didn't get those in Berlin" just wouldn't be as funny. Partly it's the extra syllable in Heidelberg and partly i...
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Thursday, October 24, 2024

The Joy of Six 1280

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"There is a strand of conservatism that is protectionist and isolationist but for any admirer of Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher to ...
Monday, September 02, 2024

Spying: Another column for the Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy

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I've just sent off another column to the JCPCP, so it's time to post another of my earlier ones. The idea that Noel Coward had a rol...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

The Joy of Six 1241

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"Along with a shortage of GP appointments and an excess of potholes in the roads, the issue exercising Henley’s well-heeled voters abov...
Wednesday, May 08, 2024

The Joy of Six 1227

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Jan Dehn outlines the many questions being considered by the government inquiry into what happened on Alderney under Nazi occupation: ...
Monday, July 03, 2023

Twitter: A dead cat and a dead parrot

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This morning Twitter is working normally on my PC, but when I try to use the app on my phone it's a disaster area. My conclusion is that...
Sunday, July 02, 2023

Leslie Sarony: Ain't it Grand to be Blooming Well Dead

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There's a programme about Les Dawson that used to be shown regularly on high-numbered TV channels. One of the people who pays tribute to...
Friday, June 30, 2023

John Cleese on At Last the 1948 Show

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At Last the 1948 Show is part of the prehistory of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Written and performed by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chap...
Tuesday, February 07, 2023

Happy birthday Charles Dickens

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The great man was born on 7 February 1812. This clip is from David Lean's 1948 film of Oliver Twist and the boy himself is played by Joh...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

The Joy of Six 1102

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"Becoming conservative requires the means, and it's the Conservatives who are frustrating the acquisition of means. And so the cons...