Seinfeld Interview

Here's a revealing interview with Jerry Seinfeld as he promotes his forthcoming Bee Movie.

"I don't mind it at all when people come up to me. I figure I owe them that much. It's my job to talk to them. The truth is few things make me angrier than celebrities whining about how hard it is to be famous. Stop whining! It's not hard. It's easy. It's what you wanted."

Are You Kiddin' Me?

More goals, this time the Goal of the Week contest from Major League Soccer in the USA. There are a couple of belters.

What's it Gonna Be?

I couldn't help laughing at this. It features Mike O'Connell and Dr Ken Jeong.

It's definitely Not Safe For Work.

An Interview with Stewart Lee

Here's an interview with Stewart Lee from Chortle.

Before asking what he makes of the state of stand-up right now, I mention that he’s sometimes been critical of other comedians in the past.

‘Have I? When?’

Well, there was a fairly sizeable attack on Joe Pasquale in his show 90s Comedian.

‘Well, that’s hardly… I mean, all his stuff’s stolen. It’s not a controversial opinion. All comedians know that. I don’t think he even really counts as a comedian, does he? It’s not even really a little dig about Joe Pasquale – it’s a 15-minute explanation.’

And here it is.

Goal!

Here's 5 minutes worth of goals. Mainly scored in Italy. There are a lot of great goals in here, but have a look in particular for the one at the 1 min 10 sec mark. It's by Francesco Graziani of Torino in 1976.

99p Challenge

The 99p Challenge was a radio series that ran on Radio 4 from 1998 to 2004. It regularly featured such funny people as Simon Pegg, Armando Iannucci, Richard Herring and Peter Serafinowicz.

You can download all the shows here.

Brendon Burns

Last night I went to see Brendon Burns at a packed Maggie Mays. The triumphant winner of The if.Comedy Award at this year's Edinburgh Festival played for around two hours.

He started off telling us how winning that award had made his cmedy life different, then went on to discuss his ill-fated stint presenting the I'm a Celebrity show on ITV2.

Properly edgy, a lot of his material centred on race, religion, regional stereotypes and the sexes. So much so that a large chunk of the evening was devoted to him feilding heckles from several inebriated women in the audience.

Here he is on an Irish TV show a couple of years ago.

Soup Man

Did you know that you can buy soup from The Soup Nazi online? No? Well you can . The Original SoupMan has set up around 200 stores across the US. He even has the same rules as the Seinfeld character.

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We're All Stuck Out In The Desert

When me and the This Place is Dead boys went to see Jenny Lewis last year, she was supported by her boyfriend Johnathan Rice. I think we all agreed that the best song he did was one he introduced as a new song, "We're All Stuck Out In The Desert". It's now on his new album Further North. Here it is being performed when he supported REM at Hyde Park a couple of years ago.

You can see the video for it by clicking on the link to his website.

David Simon in the New Yorker

Here's a long piece in the New Yorker on David Simon and The Wire.

Much of the new season, which will begin airing in January, will take place at a downsizing newspaper called the Baltimore Sun. Johnson, back at the monitor, began teasing Simon for giving so many of his old Sun colleagues small parts on the show. Among the dozens of people who have recurrent parts or cameos are Simon’s former editor, Rebecca Corbett, now an editor at the Times; the former Sun political reporter Bill Zorzi, now a writer for “The Wire”; Steve Luxenberg, the editor who first hired Simon as a reporter at the Sun; and Simon’s wife, Laura Lippman, a crime novelist who used to be a Sun reporter.

Have You Been to Brixton Yet?

Here's Dave Chappelle on one of his recent surprise appearances in London.

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Armstrong and Miller are Back

An interview with Armstrong and Miller.

Having decided to reunite, Armstrong and Miller recruited a team of writers, including The League Of Gentlemen’s Jeremy Dyson as script editor.

Armstrong explains: 'We have always been big fans of Jeremy. He has a fantastic outlook and a wonderful scientific and emotional handle on comedy. He's really good at putting his finger on what is funny and we leapt at the chance when he was suggested.'

The pair tried out some of their sketches in front of a live audience, and Miller said: 'It was one of the best things that we did. It got us used to performing in front of an audience again, and helped us try out lots of material before we went into the studio.’

Some YOMG Show Photos

Here are some photographs from last night's show at The Stand.

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More YOMG Rehearsal Photos

Here are some more YOMG rehearsal photographs.

Mind it's this coming Tuesday the 16th of October at The Stand in Edinburgh. Six quid/four quid.

C'Mon

For no reason, this is Guster riding on Segways and being bullies in the video for C'mon.

Panini Stickers

Of no interest to anyone who wasn't into football in the mid 1980s but here is the complete Scottish Premier in Panini sticker form for the 1985/86 season.