The personal memoirs of Randi Mooney
I am delighted to announce the yet another exciting Resonance FM Project: The publication of Frank Key’s new anthology: “Befuddled By Cormorants“, a collection of 52 thrilling stories from the acclaimed radio series “Hooting Yard on the Air”.
It was my privilege to act as the typesetter of this wonderful collection of short prose. For more information, please visit Frank’s web-site. Alternatively you can buy the book direct from the publisher.
Digg.com took me to this awsome article on the mad as hell “Shelley the Republican” blog; Do conservative Americans really agree with Microsoft’s Steve Balmer that Linux is a Cancer? Perhaps some do, but I suspect this entire thing is a trollsome jape intended to extract mirth at the expense of the credulous.
If you intend to post a comment on this site I urge you to play along. There are far to many rebuttals of the author’s preposterous arguments. Anybody can refute an argument that is blatently incorrect. It takes real rhetorical power to argue for utter madness. I want somebody else to tell me why Linux is evil!
Update: Episode 2 has been changed; It is now a higher bitrate version.
I just snarfed my copy of Daniel Kitson’s new series on Resonance FM courtesy of the Bittorrent p2p network. For those who dont know, Kitson is a Perrier award winning stand-up genius. He does a show on London’s Resonance 104.4 FM every Friday night.
Resonance FM have given Daniel completely free reign to do whatever he wants: The result is a blend of his own personal favourite choons, plus his own improvised comedy. I’ve managed to track down the first four episodes:
I just received my copy of Stewart Lee’s new DVD, “Stand Up Comedian” this morning; It’s a retrospective of some of Stu’s best stand-up material developed over the past two years. This is the same Stewart Lee who gave us the Jerry Springer Opera, and possibly Britain’s best currently performing stand-up comedians.
This DVD shows Lee at the peak of his skills; a measured performer who is in control of the audience. As one might expect, his set includes bizarre twists of logic; clever analysis of recent affairs and precisely targeted irony against an ever growing group of targets, which has expanded recently to include every Perrier award winning comedian, and anybody vaguely religious.
Fair game if you ask me.
I know it’s a cliche to compare Stewart Lee to Bill Hicks; but there is truth in this comparison. Like Bill Hicks, Lee is a visionary who has transcended the world of mundane observation. Lee lacks the spiritualism of Bill Hicks, but like the best performers can conjure absurdity from the most barren of topics.
Not so long ago I was lucky enough to see Richard Herring’s new stand-up routine “Someone Likes Yoghurt“, performed at Downstairs at the Kings Head, Crouch End’s local comedy venue. More than any of Richard’s work this act polarized the audience. Some (Like me) felt that it was brilliantly inventive comedy created from absolutely nothing, however others (Like my girlfriend) felt that a 45 minute set mainly concerning other people’s attitudes to a yoghurt buying incident was a bit much.
The act describes a trip to the supermarket, with the attempt to stock up on yoghurt products, and his reflection upon the comments of the check-out ladies. Most of the sketch is spent defending his manly status, which he feels is somewhat harmed by being accused of liking yoghurt more than the average bloke. He also goes into some detail about the ways he might consume his twelve yoghurts, and the various permutaions of yoghurt consumption. According to his web-site, an even longer version of this routine is destined to become Herring’s Edinburgh show this year.
And I might also add, Richard Herring writes a daily blog/journal thing called Warming Up which is very funny indeed.
Wednesdays have allways been my favorite day of the week on Resonance FM. Great comedy such as Epistaxis Time and Hooting Yard abound, and now the powers that be at Resonance have seen fit to add a new show to this schedule: June loves Janet.
This new show featues Julia Davis and Jessica Stevenson, both semi-famous tv/film comedy actors. The Resonance schedules are not exactly clear when the first episode will be broadcast, however I am sure these things will become apparant in due time.