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SO A PRIEST, A RABBI AND A MINISTER… ETC. ETC.

Tripping Along The Ledge productions, in association with EoinButler.com, are proud to announce my first, nay, only ever stand-up comedy set will take place in the Ha’penny Bridge Inn on Tuesday, May 19th. It’s to tie-in with the Carlsberg Cat Laughs Comedy Festival, which takes place in Kilkenny later this month.

Basically, myself and two other non-comedians have been railroaded into undergoing an intensive, like, one hour crash course in how to do stand-up. Read the rest of this entry »

THIS IS FUNNY

Remember Max, the well-connected ‘gapper’ whose short-lived blog provoked such outpourings of bile on the Guardian’s website last year? Well imagine if young Max was back and was making music that was, like, a mixture of acoustic, funk, pop and light-hearted drum n’ base… Yeah? But it’s not a joke. Read the rest of this entry »

SONGS OF PRAISE: I SAW THE LIGHT (1948)

“Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else. Songs like ‘Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain’ or ‘I Saw the Light’ -that’s my religion. I don’t adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that. I’ve learned more from the songs than I’ve learned from any of this kind of entity. The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.”

Bob Dylan. Read the rest of this entry »

MISCELLANEOUS AMUSING ITEMS I’VE COME ACROSS #6

From the possibly-laying-it-on-a-liittle-too-thick file, this, presumably, is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Spillane’s acclaimed Well Sure Exactly, Says You, And Isn’t There a Grand Stretch in the Evenings album.

IF THAT’S A FACT, TELL ME… AM I LYING?

A report in today’s New York Times suggests that Christopher Walken’s Don Vincenzo, in this famous scene from True Romance, may actually have gotten it all wrong. Read the rest of this entry »

THIS IS FUNNY

What’s brown and rhymes with snoop? Read the rest of this entry »

“THAT WASN’T A SKETCH… IT WAS A MASSIVE SPASTIC FUCK-UP!”

Running for 89 episodes between 1992 and 1998, The Larry Sanders was one of the funniest and most innovative television shows ever made. Based on the travails of neurotic talk show host Larry Sanders (Garry Shandling), his buffoonish sidekick Hank Kingsley (Jeffrey Tambor) and their shitkicking producer Artie (Rip Torn), the show was scripted by a team of crack writers that included Jon Vitti (The Simpsons) and Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, Superbad), as well as Shandling himself and his writing partner Peter Tolan. It also boasted a strong supporting cast of actors who, in many cases, would go on to greater acclaim in their own right (Jeremy Piven, Sarah Silverman, Janeane Garafalo).

And if you haven’t seen the show, there’s good news after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

I’M STRAIGHT (1973)

IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY (OR MAYBE NOT…)

The sun is out. The sky is blue. Feeling optimistic about the future? Well then cop the fuck on…

FAITH ALIVE

Tom Cruise speaking about Study Technology

1. In his latest film role, Intergalactic Scientology overlord Tom Cruise plays a deranged megalomaniac… Oh, wait. [UPDATE: B’ah they’ve deleted it. For now at least, it’s also available to view here.]
2. Irish government takes a laudable stance against people saying things other people don’t like.
3. What happens when a hapless Polish exchange student is thrown together with a family of American Christian fundamentalists? Does hilarity ensue? Er, no.
4. Apparitions:Rest of the Country 0 Mayo 2.
4. Finally, are you rapture ready?