This performance by Attraction on Britain’s Got Talent has been receiving a good deal of exposure online and rightfully so. It really is impressive and they should be very happy with it.
However it did remind me of this Gruppe Pilobolus performance which is, in my opinion, far superior.
This is the official music video David Brent (Ricky Gervais) and Dom Johnson (Doc Brown) put together for Comic Relief. It’s brilliant. Ricky Gervais is a genius. Biddly-biddly-biddly-biddly-bong.
This is the sketch that preceded the music video showing Brent in all his Office glory. It’s worth watching as well.
This is Taj Mahal performing Corrina live at the second annual Root and Blues Festival in Boulder last year. I only discovered Taj courtesy of the Rolling Stones Circus that was shown on TV during the Stone’s 50 year anniversary celebrations but have not stopped listening to his music since then.
This is him at the Rolling Stone Circus. Not difficult to see why I had to hear more. Also, he kind of looks like Django, perhaps Tarantino is a fan?
It almost goes without saying that Saturday Night Live is no longer as popular or funny as it used to be in the days of Will Ferrell etc. however occasionally they are still capable of putting together a really great sketch. This is one of those times as guests Christoph Waltz and Brad Pitt star in this Quentin Tarantino parody Djesus Uncrossed. I think it is really funny but as you can imagine with the use of a subject matter as sensitive as religion it has sparked many debates about how appropriate/inappropriate it is.
The name Djesus makes me think of John Torturro’s character in The Big Lebowski and…
When I first saw 10 O’Clock Live advertised I was very excited by the prospect of a show featuring comedian Jimmy Carr, David Mitchell (of the brilliant Peep Show among other things) and Charlie Brooker (who I became a fan of after watching Black Mirror last year). I only watched about half of the first episode before changing the channel. The show was too scripted and the brilliance of all the aforementioned men seemed to have been watered down into something more acceptable for TV. It was all very disappointing. However Brooker’s poem about The Sun Newspaper and witch hunts featured in this clip is pretty awesome and has successfully encouraged me to give the show a second chance.
