BBC Friday Comedy Podcast Quotes

You should listen to this podcast because it's funny and it's not from America and it'll make you smarter.

"Being thrown out of the tea party for being a racist is like being thrown out of the conservative party for drinking Pimms."

"When Shakespeare invented words it was on purpose."

Steven!

This comes from the BBC's Adam & Joe show podcast and cracks me up. I really think "STEVEN!" needs to be introduced to the US. Just remember, if you hear someone shout, "STEVEN!" you need to respond, "just coming." This happened to me in the store just the other day as some child's mother shouted, "Steven!" to which I responded, "Just coming." The look of terror in her eyes was priceless.

When they get to the book called "Say it with Snails" I get so tickled my eyes tear up.

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

Quotes from BBC Friday Comedy News Quiz

"If we could be allowed to drop our tone of cynicism for a moment, it's bloody marvelous Obama's been elected, isn't it?"

"When Obama said that John McCain had endured things that most of us could not begin to imagine I immediately thought of brunch with the Palins."

"Every president has had an idiot brother, except for Bush who turned out to be the idiot brother."

"No one dared to believe that Americans would put aside their prejudices and elect a president with a brain."

Some Quotes from BBC's Mock the Week

Mock the Week

[on Palin]

"She's definitely going to be President, isn't she? Because he's 72. He's the first President ever who could be assassinated by someone busting a paper bag."

"Being the Governor of Alaska is the equivalent of being the mayor of the Shetlands."

"If we were all married to who we went out with when we were 17, how shit would our lives be?"


[on the Large Hadron Collider]

"I'm sure they're going to find out some interesting things about protons but... I don't give a fuck."

"Small black holes are the worst kind: We'll all be slowly sucked towards Switzerland."


[on a ludicrously expensive watch bought by a footballer]

"For 36,000 pounds your watch had better come with a lot of gadgets. I, for instance, would want to be able to drive it."

My Favorite Podcasts

Here are my top five podcasts of the moment:

1. On the Media Possibly the best weekly news show on the radio simply because they spend the hour looking at what the media has been looking at and how they're doing it (or aren't). If you're like most news junkies you get plenty of day by day or minute by minute news coverage. How often do you examine the lense(s) through which your news is delivered? From bottom feeding scum like Rush Limbaugh to actual news organizations, Bob and Brook examine the stuff in the filter.

2. Le Show Every week Harry Shearer brings you up to date and fills in the gaps as he reads "The Apologies of the Week," "News from Outside the Bubble," "News of the Warm," "The Trades," investigates buried leads, and offers up phone calls between the President (is he still in office?) and his dad, mom, etc., "Dick Cheney: Confidential" and many more irregular features. This show has been broadcast for over 25 years and is available on a gazillion radio stations, shortwave, satellite, netcast, and podcast. The online version has the advantage of letting you hear the excellent music Harry plays.

3. Radiolab This show is something else. It takes the sonic possibilities of the medium to their extremes. Nothing else sounds like it and in many ways nothing else approaches the content. This is an advantage of the small number of new shows per year. The drawback is there are so few shows per year.

4. This American Life I don't need to say much about this show. It's the only radio program that I can almost bet will bring tears to my eyes at some point and make me laugh at another (or at the same time). Beautiful writing, production, and musical selections, masterful story telling and easy flow. The television show is also tremendous.

5. BBC Radio Comedy I'm kind of cheating by lumping these together but I'm going to anyway. The Friday Night Comedy Hour is reliably funny. "The Now Show" changes places with "The News Quiz" every month or so. I like "The News Quiz" better. There are a couple of comedy DJ duos I enjoy as well.

A Joke

Q: How do you make a platypus a soul singer?
A: Put it in the microwave until its bill withers.

Stolen from BBC Radio 4's News Quiz.