I was just going to pop this one in an email to Judith, fan of all things Wodehouse (and an American Jew in Israel, so yah boo sucks), but it’s too good for that: Stephen Fry on Robert McCrum on the other PG. (Why can’t Fry write like that all the time?)
Read MoreI bought Edward Monkton’s “Penguin of Death” greetings card for Maoi on her last birthday. Another little friend of mine, Leasey, points me at his cute Website. And two girlies have set up their own where they hope to enumerate the 412 ways his Penguin can do away with you.
Read More[UPDATE: I’ve been told that the following collection of gags originally appeared in a letter to The Independent. This explains why I haven’t seen it before 😉 .] Steve K is back at God Save The Queen. He has some serious reflections on serious things he saw at the Edinburgh Festival. Meanwhile, here at PooterGeek, […]
Read MoreNick Barlow at What You Can Get Away With links to this piece by Sandy Hunter about errors made by the judges in that international gathering of peaceful competition, the World Air Guitar Championships (“If you are holding an air guitar you cannot hold a rifle”). Nick Barlow asks, why no air drums? Sandy Hunter […]
Read MoreDame Edna Everage has a running joke about her having installed her mother in a “maximum-security rest home”. From its external aspect, the second Google hit for the phrase “rest home” could be such a place.
Read MoreI cannot wait to see Team America: World Police. As an almost-lifelong fan of Thunderbirds and a supporter of Good in the global War on Evil, I started laughing when the trailer reached its half-way point and didn’t stop until well after it had finished.
Read MoreNorm is too polite. Scotland’s “Poet Laureate” combines a tin ear, bathos, and fashionable stupidity to give us a poem about Saddam that William McGonagall would have been proud of. Please, someone, tell me it was a spoof, written to draw in people like us.
Read MoreThis another oldie, but it's never too late to read a story about the Mail on Sunday being humiliated. Mil Millington wrote a Webpage and a newspaper column and a book and, soon, a film—sorry: “major motion picture”—called “Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About”. [Mil's homepages might be funny, but they're ugly and […]
Read MoreHe torments the Greens and he has a Right-wing 'Blog called “The Edge of England's Sword“. I once half-praised and half-condemned an occasional contribution from Iain Murray's wife, Kris, but this outburst from her yesterday was completely and hilariously sharp. [Yes, that was intentional. I pun and am proud, thank you.]
Read MoreYesterday evening my officemate Jo and her fiancé kindly shared their home, food and television with me for the England cock-up. I have mentioned my officemate Jo's brother Paul before. He is a bit of a “character” as we English say, though he himself is married to a foreigner (Japanese) with whom he has produced […]
Read MoreYou will never believe who owns the “jihad.net” domain. A bunch of obviously talented and intelligent people—refugees from the newsgroup “alt.dinosaur.barney.die.die.die”—have constructed a vast fantasy universe around the idea that Barney the Dinosaur is not a boring but harmless children's television character; he is, in truth, “the demon B'harne”, a threat to all mankind who […]
Read MoreI browse Football365, a magnet for poncey, middle-class types like me who watch football twice a year, as well as people who take the game seriously enough to talk crap about it. They have some new shirts for sale in their shop, in time for Euro 2004. This is a good one, and so's this.
Read MoreI have discovered from the referer logs that PooterGeek is now more famous on the Web than the inspiration for its name. Google for “Pooter” and this page is third; George and Weedon Grossmith's “hero” is fourth. The porn starts at six.
Read MoreI only discovered the satire site Social Scrutiny earlier this week. Here’s a good one from a “report” on Tuesday about the doomed Beagle 2 space probe: “Beagle 2 – too ‘irredeemably British to succeed’, according to report. ESA Departmental Head, Dirk Porn pointed to what he called “The Henman Effect” to explain the Mission’s […]
Read MoreOnly two people could carry off a piece comparing the reaction of the chattering classes to Friends with the reaction of the chattering classes to the invasion of Iraq: Mark Steyn and David Aaronovitch.
Read MoreJudith neatly joins my two postings so far today with this piece in The Weekly Standard by (Jewish comic) Larry Miller. He’s writing about a recent comedy statement from (black diplomat) Kofi Annan. [Surely Miller deserves a better Website that this?]
Read MoreGail A Stocker, one of LA’s leading comedy agents, offers humour for (almost) every minority, but, we ask, in what proportions does she take it on?: (Roseanne Barr, Garry Shandling, Jerry Seinfield…) total Jewish comics: 31 (US popn: 6m) (Arsenio Hall, Sinbad…) total African-American comics: 20 (US popn: 30m) total Catholic comics: 3 (US popn: […]
Read More[edited from The Motley Fool] AMERICAN JOKISM: You have two jokes They share a huge apartment in New York which they pay for by working in a coffee shop One is straight in real life, but gay on TV They were both written by a room full of Harvard graduates FRENCH JOKISM: You have two […]
Read MoreOver at Liquid Generation—home of the now dated, but still strangely fascinating, “Mystery of Britney Spears’ Breasts“—you can play “TrumpZilla“. Even the Japanese themselves would have trouble beating it for surreality. Your aim is to intercept biplanes, sushi bombs and flying Pikachus by launching toupees at them. The action takes place over Tokyo, London and […]
Read MoreYesterday Leasey sent me a link to a deeply strange Website that tries to guess which sitcom character and/or dictator you are. Er, thanks, Leasey. On the same day,
Read MorePersevere with this stylish spoof. Some of the best laughs are in the sly details.
Read MorePeople keep telling me I don’t look a day over 33 too, but it doesn’t help.
Read MoreMoney tight? Think you have no saleable assets? Think again!
Read MoreI like this one
Read MoreThere was an excellent spoof play on the strange comedy show Radio Nine, earlier this week. In it, a bunch of actors put on period Irish accents to do an historical drama “glorifying organized crime”—a tiny, sharp pin in the romantic bubble of Republican myth (and I’m supposed to be a Catholic). Ignore the misleading […]
Read MoreAgain, thanks to Maoi. Have a smile at Engrish.com.
Read MoreEr, thanks for this, Maoi.
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