Laugh a minute

[altariel]

Watched back Not Only... But Always the other night; I think it was meant to be/was billed as a play about Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, but inevitably Cook was more interesting. (The biography on which the play was based, Peter Cook by Harry Thompson, is well worth a read.) Rhys Ifans as Peter Cook was just perfect. The play also brought home something that I think I'd always vaguely known but never before seen expressed so clearly: that Jonathan Miller is a crashing bore.

Nebulous is a geekish and amiable Radio 4 comedy starring Mark Gatiss as Professor Nebulous, who runs an eco-trouble shooting organisation called K.E.N.T. (it stands for something new every week). It might help to have a passing knowledge of Doom-watch and late-Pertwee early-Baker Dr Who, but I don't think that's essential... The first week's episode had a Meglos-style villain, part-human, part-cactus: "It's humanoid and cactilinear." Anyway, it's amusing me. (I think you can listen to last week's episode via that link.)

Meanwhile, the Blackadder vs. Hitch-hiker's Deathmatch has been very closely tied, up until early this morning, when Blackadder inched ahead 21 votes to Hitch-hiker's 18. I'd love there to be 42 votes cast. Come on, you lot, I only need 3 more.

Edited to add: Blackadder wins, 24 votes to 19. applegnat, all that vote-stacking paid off! *lol*

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It's such a good word: "cactilinear". Very satisfying to say.

Vote duly cast.

Bless you, my child.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Yes, I thought it was rather a good word, too. And not only that, but it's real: if you heard it on Radio 4, it must be true.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

And if ever they use it on the Today programme, I'll know it's not only true but right.

BTW, you just sealed the victory for Blackadder.