We don’t want your sort around here
If you’ve been using Facebook or Twitter over the weekend, you may well have seen the following screenshot. I stumbled across it via a tweet from Suzy Bennett, winner of the 2006 Funny Women Awards. Here’s the image in question that’s been doing the rounds: There’s been a fair amount of debate as to whether […]
No sex, please, we’re comedians
First we had to choose between being funny or sexy. Then, suddenly funny WAS sexy to some people (and still is). And now, there’s evidently no way you could ever confuse the two. I refer you to this disconcerting bit from the Guardian: “Sexy has little place in comedy. Comedy is sad and messy. When […]
Keeping up the remakes
Nothing is sacred these days. We cheered when a remake of Ghostbusters with an all-female lead cast was announced. And when the same news broke for an Ocean’s Eleven reboot. While these are all great things for females in comedy and acting, it does feel like remakes are all we’re going to get for the […]
You silly sausage (roll)
“What’s a sausage roll?” “Depends how many dice it’s using.” Groan all you like, but that first question isn’t always a joke. There are people in this world who don’t know or understand what a sausage roll is. This revelation has apparently signalled the apocalypse in the UK’s mass media and given the Aussies the […]
Being a lady can be such a Country Life
Yes, we’ve all seen it by now. Country Life’s ‘39 steps to being a lady‘. Sorry for the delay, it took me this long to pick myself up off the floor. Okay, the very first one – ‘laughter is the best medicine’ – we’re totally on board with. Knows how to say ‘thank you’, well, […]
Are you Braver Than Britain?
The top 10 list of things British people are afraid of is disconcertingly predictable. We are, as a nation, a bunch of wusses. The list goes like this: Acrophobia — Fear of heights Ophidiophobia — Fear of snakes Glossophobia — Fear of public speaking Arachnophobia — Fear of spiders Claustrophobia — Fear of small spaces […]
