On 6 May 2014 10:45, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 01:09:47PM +0200, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:49 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The late Bob Monkhouse was way before my time and never trendy. But > aft er > > > he died they looked at his jokes, which were just simple and so funny > they > > > decided he was a genius. Here is one of his jokes that makes me laugh > every > > > time: He's a stand up comedian and he says to the audience: > > > > > > "When I told them I wanted to be a comedian they laughed in my face. > Well > > > no one's laughing now" > > > > > > > Nice :) > > I have a theory: a culture cannot be simultaneously good at comedy and > > gastronomy. Case in point: the British vs. the French. > > > > Not sure about standup, but the French do do a good farce. Examples: La > Cage aux Folles, or Topaz. > > I have seen a few good French comedy films. "M. Hulot's holiday" comes to mind (and "La Cage aux Folles") but there have been a lot of more recent ones but I can't recall the names offhand.
On the other hand, I'm told their cuisine has gone downhill, and has in fact been surpassed by many countries (mainly due to complacency, I think). And their wines, I'm told on good authority (that of a French vineyard owner) are rubbish compared to New Zealand's. Mind you, NZ can definitely do good comedy AND good food (see Flight of the Conchords and Peter Gordon for example). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
