It’s only Monday.

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Nothing to do with me, just a nice amateur sketch I came across today.

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“Let’s see what you think about getting cock-end little friend. At number one we have fat dude only having other men’s dick in his head.”

I don’t normally watch Youtube webcam rants, or inflict them on other people, but I thought this one was accidentally amazing!

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Jeremy Paxman discusses proper apostrophe use with a professor of linguistics, who comes to the conclusion that “its irrelevant”.

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In the continuing tenuously linked YouTube comedy thread, which I intend to string out for as long as possible, we go from Tim Vine to his co-star in the gag-rich BBC comedy Not Going Out, Lee Mack.

Here’s a clip from a TV gig a couple of years back.

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Stewart Lee’s last Edinburgh show was entitled “41st Best Stand Up Ever”, in reference to this Channel 4 poll.

At the bottom of the list, Tim Vine, an old-fashioned rapid-fire gag man who I think deserved to be ranked higher. He once held the Guinness World Record for most jokes told in an hour.

Here’s a clip of one of his old routines. It starts badly, but quickly warms up.

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On the basis of a) my unsubstantiated belief that this blog has readers, b) my partially substantiated belief that sustaining Google PageRank and thus texturbation’s $200-a-month revenue stream requires regular posting, and c) my completely substantiated belief that no longer being a Really Important Journalist and/or a sleazy backpacking alcoholic means I will no longer have stories I consider worthy of your attention on a sufficiently frequent schedule, I may, from now on, on occasion, post a YouTube video for no other reason than I find it funny.

First, of course, Stewart Lee.

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