HUMOUR (I): #1 - #18      “plus”: #19 - #22

  #1 STONEHENGE, Flanders & Swann (ancient history) [3:16]

 
#2 THE SERMON, Beyond the Fringe, (religion/ranting preacher) [7:39]

  #3 DUNSINANE BLUES, Cleo Laine, (Shakespeare, jazzed-up version of Macbeth) [3:08]

  #4 GREAT ACTORS, Monty Python, (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Othello etc.) [2:22]

  #5 INTRODUCING TOBACCO TO CIVILIZATION, Bob Newhart, (smoking,“drugs”) [5:53]

  #6 EVILS OF THE WEED, Kenneth Williams, (smoking, “drugs”) [2:05]

  #7 POLLUTION, Tom Lehrer, (pollution, environment) [2:15]

  #8 PARTY POLITICAL SPEECH, Peter Sellers, (“hot air”, “word pollution”) [2:56]

 
#9 EUROVISION SONG CONTEST, Marty Feldman,
(national prejudices, tourism) [1:25]

#10 THE COMMONWEALTH SONG, Flanders and Swann, (Commonwealth, Empire) [2:37]

#11 BUY BRITISH, Kenneth Williams, (prejudices, chauvinism, jingoism) [3:56]

#12 GERARD HOFFNUNG ON SPORT, Gerard Hoffnung, (the “anti-sportsman”) [4:32]

#13 THE HUNTING SONG, Tom Lehrer, (“blood” sports) [1:53]

#14 THE MOOSE, Woody Allen, (“blood” sports) [2:40]

#15 NOVEL WRITING, Monty Python, (sport, cricket, running commentary) [3:01]

#16 THE DAY NOTHING HAPPENED, Monty Python, (crime, conditional clauses) [2:19]

#17 ST.GEORGE AND THE DRAGONET, Stan Freberg, (crime, legend/fairy-tale) [3:20]

#18 LOBACHEVSKY, Tom Lehrer (plagiarism: “Facharbeit, Zulassungsarbeit” etc.) [4:09]

#19 BILL SHAKESPEARE, Rowan Atkinson (“work in progress”: Hamlet) [5:52]

#20 BULBOUS BOUFFANT, The Vestibules (words, words, words) [4:10]

#21 MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN, Noël Coward (“Those were the days!”) [2:58]

#22 THE STATELY HOMES OF ENGLAND, Noël Coward (“Those were the days!”) [4:39]

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