He's missed it!

[davidn]

I said that I would talk about something else. Here's something else - it's Murray Walker commentating on snooker, from that programme that Jeremy Clarkson briefly did in between when he was on Top Gear and when he was on Top Gear.

People always seem surprised when they learn I used to watch Formula 1, but it was mostly just to listen to him - for people who did not the advantage of his way of brightening up watching improbably fragile cars essentially go around in a circle, Youtube has various further collections of his uniquely frantic style, never for a moment being able to sound calm enough to suggest that his trousers aren't on fire.

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[kjorteo]

I already said this elsewhere, but it bears repeating for your LJ audience--I think my favorite part is that the first related video is snooker commentary from Brian Blessed. Which is also as amazing as it sounds.

[davidn]

Brian Blessed really is now such a self-aware caricature of himself that it's wonderful.

He's also featured on a power metal album - not during an actual song, more's the pity, but a short recital at the end of "Army of the Damned" by Pythia. He still puts so much Brian Blessedness into it that you won't be disappointed.

[kjorteo]

Banzuke Brian sheds the blood of the Saxon men?

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Having only ever heard of him via TV Tropes, I have to admit this is the first time I've ever seen his name spelled outside of All-Caps.

I imagine he's one of the headliners of the "Large Ham" page for good reason, though.

[kjorteo]

[davidn]

Even presented with second-hand camera-recording-a-screen video evidence, I still cannot quite believe that this actually happened.

[kjorteo]

I love the still frame it uses when you first load/reload this page, before pressing play... the juxtaposition between the utterly laughable cheapness of that samurai costume and how absolutely ecstatic he looks to be in it is just incredible.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

...Oh.


(Yes, that's all I have to say at the moment...give me a few minutes to let my mind recover from that. Then maybe I can be a bit more articulate.)

[kjorteo]

 

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Then again, maybe not.