Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humour. Show all posts
Saturday, January 06, 2024
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Thursday, September 28, 2023
Humour: British Gentleman Tells Us What He Thinks about America, Americans | #shorts
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humour
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Outrageously Funny Moments of Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens,
humour
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Thursday, August 18, 2022
It’s So Funny!
Saturday, July 16, 2022
Well, I Do Declare! It's a Queer Grapefruit!
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humour,
queer fruit
Tuesday, June 07, 2022
Platinum Jubilee: Richard Griffin on the Queen's Sense of Humour
Friday, December 03, 2021
Saturday, November 06, 2021
Friday, September 03, 2021
It’s Lunchtime !
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handsome men,
humor,
humour
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Thursday, August 19, 2021
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Monday, November 15, 2010
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Britain is a nation of cruel humour and angry people, according to Dame Helen Mirren, who believes life is far better in France.
The actress told a French magazine that the tradition of British decency is in decline.
"I'm under the impression that this notion is disappearing from our society, where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the internet and where, in general terms, everybody seems to me to be very angry.
"This causes me a lot of pain," she said.
She singled out British comedy as an example. "I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is harsher, more scathing, more cruel and more surreal too, as illustrated by Monty Python and the TV series Little Britain, where situations are far-fetched and over-the-top." Helen Mirren: British humour is cruel >>> | Sunday, November 14, 2010
Thursday, November 04, 2010
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humour,
Margaret Thatcher
Saturday, May 03, 2008
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback - UK)
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Hardback - UK)
Labels:
humour,
King Abdullah,
President Bush
Thursday, May 01, 2008
BRUSSELS JOURNAL: Earlier generations of Britons believed that certain things simply could not happen in Britain. Even in the country’s darkest moments of war or depression, this conviction differentiated the then proud nation from the U.S.S.R., third world countries, and unstable regimes that might fall to dictatorship any moment. News blackouts, and the banning of a book or film of course occurred here or there, but these never seemed very serious events.
When the Thatcher government banned the sale of the novel, Spycatcher, in Britain, it was smuggled into the country from abroad, and reported in the press despite legal challenges. Humor was the public’s usual way of dealing with such things, and the banning of a book that most people could get a hold of, turned politics into a laughing stock. And not for the first or last time either. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, when Oswald Moseley’s “black shirt” fascists were parading through London, Lady Astor commented that if they should ever gain power the British people would die laughing. How prophetic this was. A few years later Charlie Chaplin denounced and mocked the Nazis in his film, The Great Dictator, even as prime minister Neville Chamberlain sort [sic] to win “peace for our time” by appeasing Hitler. Modern Britain: No Laughing Matter >>> By A Millar | May 1, 2008
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Paperback - UK)
The Dawning of a New Dark Age (Hardback - UK)
Labels:
humor,
humour,
modern Britain,
United Kingdom
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