Wordplay: That Raised a Smile

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

That Raised a Smile

Oh dear, today has been a mixture of laughs, tears and sulky silences, but for the benefit of your sanity, I shall concentrate only on the laughs.

Mock The Week ne'er fails to make me smile, and watching a hotch-potch of "Scenes We'd Like To See" actually made my day. Though, I have to admit, watching the videos almost made me late for school...which is no great loss, to be honest.

There is much dispute over whether Russell Howard is, in fact, funny. Personally, I quite like him, although, sometimes he can try too hard. I regularly watch his BBC Three show, Good News and today, I got a fair few screenshots, which will make me laugh for months to come...

Also some from Ask Rhod Gilbert...

If you haven't any seen any of the shows, I implore you to. You won't regret it!

PS. To see some of the detail in the pictures, you might have to enlarge them.

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"Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When the rock is liften the earth is lighter, the hand that bears it heavier. When it is thrown the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed. On every act the balance of the whole depends. The wind and seas, the powers of water and earth and light, all that these do, and all that the beasts and green things do, is well done and rightly done. All these act within the Equilibrium. From the hurricane and the great whale's sounding to the fall of a dry leaf and the gnat's flight, all they do is done within the balance of the whole. But we, in so far as we have power over the world and over one another, we must learn to do what the lead and the whale and the wind do of their own nature. We must learn to keep the balance. Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility. Who am I - though I have the power to do it - to punish and reward, play with men's destinies?" SPARROWHAWK, "THE EARTHSEA TRILOGY: THE FARTHEST SHORE"