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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