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Samuel Johnson, 1777
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| June 2nd |
I have been explaining British comedy to some Americans. It is a difficult operation: in British comedy you have to work out where to laugh yourself, there is no laugh track. Playing in London at the moment is 'Round the Horne' one of the radio old comedy shows from the 60s - which is really dated, unless you like homosexual banter, but here is the new wave, well, not so new, but something you won't have come across: it's called blue jam and ran as a late night radio show on BBC radio 1 for several years: it was designed for the clubber getting back at 2am, and is a combination of ambient 'lounge' music and comedy sketches and monologues from the very talented Chris Morris. Try half a show here. Highly recommended, but beware: this was the first BBC radio show to carry a health warning over language and content. The last series was censored by the BBC.
If you like it, most of the series is available on the internet.
| | June 8th | It's the hottest day of the year, temperatures of 34 degrees have been recorded. But the unaccustomed heat is having a deleterious effect on London's architecture. Some of the icing on Parliament has begun to melt and run, leaving large white puddles on the pavement, trapping small children like large, multicoloured flies. Big Ben is wilting to the side, like a huge spent penis, and teams of architects are frantically pumping viagra into the foundations to shore it up.
Where the London Eye used to stand is now a large puddle of cordoned-off melted metal and glass and scientists are working frantically to get it back into shape before it sets hard again as temperatures drop overnight.
With our unpredictable temperature range Britain has become something of a world leader in curing melting in large buildings: teams from Switzerland are working with the resolidification unit at King's College - it's hoped that some of the experience gained will help preserve the glaciers for a new generation of skiers.
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