It's a Knockout

[davidn]

It's very rare for me to laugh to the point of utter helplessness, but we got caught up watching a heap of British comedy chat shows yesterday and Sean Lock and Jack Dee's discussion of It's a Royal Knockout was the highlight of the lot.

It's not going to have the same effect on you because I've just built it up so much, but the discussion about this... astonishing spectacle of giant coconuts on legs pelting about a field in pursuit of Cliff Richard dressed up as a leek made me completely lose it - I couldn't breathe or see from crying with laughter, and probably nearly did actually lose conciousness.

A further clip illustrating the general mood of the programme was shown slightly earlier on in the same video. Being away from it has made me realize how much I love Britain - we used to be so good at gloriously stupid things like this.

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[tamakun.livejournal.com]

And I thought Japan was the only country that still did 'wacky'.

However, this is the country that brought us the glory that is Monty Python, so I need to revisit my thought on this.

(I also need to watch this entire clip. The show looks brilliant.)

[davidn]

As far as I can tell in this country, Britain seems to be viewed as a purveyor of strangeness along much the same lines as Japan (although nobody's ever going to beat them)... I honestly hadn't seen the strangeness in things like replacing an MP who cancelled his appearance on a satirical news commentary programme with a tub of lard and treating it as a panellist throughout until having to explain them to someone else, they've just been... how the world's been to me for a long time :)

But I thought the programme surrounding those two clips in my post was great, too - I'd seen hardly any of it before because it was never given a popular time slot (and I can't remember when it was on), but it deserved better! Now we have Youtube to sort things like that out...