It's Halloween tomorrow. I'm sitting in my costume with my housemates Carmen and Natalie. Carmen's a sexy pumpkin (orange tutu, tights etc. all topped off with a green hat) and Natalie is an evil butterfly. I am sitting in a petticoat with wings and antennae. We're watching a tv show about zombies on big brother. i do love the halloween time.

Anyway... all i want to do in this post is implore all my american friends to vote next tuesday. I don't care (that much) who you vote for– though, if I know you I'm fairly sure I know who it'd be. Mainly because I have to (sort of) live in that country for an undisclosed amount of time, and seeing how I can't vote, it'd be great if I could say I have people looking out for me who can.

None of this really has much to do with anything. oh well...

"You're fat.... with a p-h, as in elephant!"

I love being the first person to stand up in a standing ovation.

So, yesterday was one helluva great day. It was my little brother James' 18th birthday, so I went up to London to see him and Robin and Donald, some friends of my parents who are fantastic. Needless to say, we had quite a bit to drink. But none of this is really relevant. What is is that I had to run to get the train back to Canterbury so that I could go see Mr. Ed Byrne perform. Not a word of a lie– it was AMAZING!! I thought I loved him before...

If ever you have a chance to see him perform live, I urge– nay, command– you to do so. He is a wonderful gorgeous piece of Irish love. I have spoken.

Next up on the standup list is Eddie Izzard on the 12 December. V excited.

Much love. x

Ha ha ha... trumpets!

Just to get thoughts on this ad:

This is the ad that everyone seems to love over here at the moment. Watch it, and imagine having it blasted into your brain however many times a day. You become obsessed.

BRING ON THE TRUMPETS!

Much love. x

"Ah, but you do not have a feather in your hat!"

Today I watched: The Orinoco Flow from the Secret Policeman's Ball 2008

Just because I like to brag:

Starting on saturday, october 25 (incidentally, my brother's 18th birthday– yay James!) I will be beginning one of the best 4 month-long stages of my life, for I will be seeing 3 of my most favourite comedians from then until February. They are: Ed Byrne, Eddie Izzard, and Dylan Moran. I may just die from excitement... but I won't really because then I wouldn't get to see them.

That is all. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. x

"Who would like a banger in the mouth?"

Today I watched (and listened to): Tim Minchin (he might be my new obsession); Arrested Development (all the episodes with Tobias as Mrs Featherbottom)

So, as you may have noticed... the site's had a little work done. Like most other sites like this have done now, it seems blogger is encouraging its users to clunk up their blogs with what they like to call 'gadgets.' I promise to fight all temptation and keep said gadgets to a minimum– so far all I've added is a list of all topics that have been written about (it's over there... thatta way –––>)

Alright, I suppose I should write about something else now, eh?

I'm gonna speak to my American readers for a minute (I doubt I have any readers from anywhere else, 'cept for good old Peshy of course, but just in case: skim past this next sentence, ok? cheers). Do you remember that Comedy Central show Crank Yankers, with all the puppets? I don't know what y'all thought of it, I didn't think it was allll that funny (except for maybe Special Ed). K, non-American readers, you can start reading again here... Over here we have a relatively new programme on Channel 4 called Fonejacker. It's the same concept (prank phone calls) but it's one man doing many many many characters. And it's funny as hell.

Jimmy Jon

Jafool!

George

Much love. x

Musical Comedy

It's much easier to write on this blog when you know you have stuff that you should be doing, but just can't be arsed to do.

From what I can tell, music and comedy go hand in hand. Whether it's standup, sketch comedy, or more convential sitcoms, music features in all of it. A lot of people think that being a comedian is like being a 21st century rockstar. I don't know if that's true. Listed below are some of my favourites (and of course what I could find on YouTube) comedy.... things with music featured.

• Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody performed by 25 of the most annoying voices in music
  
• Demetri Martin (kind of a given)
• Flight of the Conchords
  
• Bill Bailey
  
• Tim Minchin (the next (and Australian) Bill Bailey?)
  
• Sean Cullen
  
• Some classic Mike Birbiglia
  
• The Mighty Boosh
  
• Omid Djalili's bongo skills
  
• Where is the Lid?
  
• Classic Green Wing goodness

Much love. x

Obama AND Doctor Who?!

Who could ask for more?!

While getting my fill of presidential coverage this morning (quote from Dylan Moran: "nothing else will make you that angry and that bored at the same time") I stumbled across this on the Indecision 2008 website.  It essentially lists which presidential hopefuls (it's a bit old so it includes Clinton and excludes Palin– though I think she'd side with the Daleks) would be a good companion for each Doctor of the most amazing sci-fi show ever, Doctor Who. It actually combines two of my most favourite things of the moment, and indulges the massive geek that I am.

So that's how one gets to meet David Tennant: become a US presidental candidate. I'm on it!

Alright kids, I'm working on finding some new stuff to watch, but I only just finished The Forsyte Saga, so it may take some time. Until then. Much love. x