Jimmy Kimmel: Are You Smarter Than Gary Johnson?

Nice that Jill Stein gets a brief name-check too. US deserves reasonable third-party choices, as does the UK. Shame this doofus is currently in third place.

Late Night with Seth Meyers: Why Trump's Fake Publicist Charade Matters: A Closer Look

Someone's apparently not afraid of repercussions if/when the short-fingered one (seemingly, somewhat inevitably now) takes the White House...

Last Week Tonight Takes on America's War on Voting

To celebrate the return of Last Week Tonight, and primary season in America, here's John doing what he does best.  Especially like that trick Oliver has of pulling it all back together at the end, then bam !

Celebrity Photobomb with Jimmy Fallon & Sesame Street

So much to be depressed about lately, could do with anything puts a smile on people's faces.  And this bit, which could come across as somewhat exploitative initially, really sells it with the kids' reactions towards the end.  Smile ev'rybody !

Last Week Tonight: Revised Resolutions

Well, timely...

The IT Crowd Manual

Great to see these guys again, all of whom have gone on to do wonderful things since.  Should maybe crack open the four series DVD's again, then track down that last special, which I'm pretty sure I never watched before...

Open University: The History of English in Ten Minutes

Amusing overview of the subject.  Would also recommend this series...if you have seven hours or so to spare rather than ten minutes...

Checking in with the Candidates

The GOP candidates for the US presidency, that is.  First, here's Seth Meyers on Donald Trump's lies.

And then, this...well, this would appear to be the #2 in the GOP race currently, the consensus mainstream candidate, and his likely runningmate play-acting at being president, and getting to perform the all-important duty of...pardoning a turkey...

Why ?  Who the hell knows ?

22 Minutes: Fear Everything

Seth Meyers on Jeb Bush's Campaign Trouble

Jeb! clearly isn't cut out for this shit.  Not sure I'd want him to be my dentist tho'.  A lot of suppressed resentment bubbling under the surface there...

Jimmy Kimmel: Hipster or Hasidic

Needed some random silliness here.  Prob'ly wouldn't pull this off outside NYC.

SNL Nails It

Still have their moments after all these years

NTNON on the Conservatives

These seem oddly topical still today...

Stick a Fork In It Already

So, I guess in between the endless repeats of Forensic Files, the onetime 'CNN Headline News' likes to occasionally pretend to still be a news-organisation.  And this is the result.

Bring back Ted Turner !  All is forgiven...


Update: Well, this explains a lot.

Because We Need to Laugh at ISIS

Organisers of an art exhibition celebrating freedom of expression have found themselves removing one of the exhibits after police raised concerns it was "inflammatory" and warned it would cost an extra £36,000 to secure the event.

The artwork in question was a series of tableaux entitled 'Isis Threaten Sylvania' that used children's Sylvanian Families dolls to satirise the Isis terrorist group.

In the work Sylvanian Families dolls are seen enjoying a picnic or a day on the beach, while other black-clad dolls, some of them armed, one carrying a black flag, gather on the sidelines.

In each piece an otherwise tranquil scene appears set to turn violent.

This needs a GoFundMe ASAP.  How can the world continue to be denied such brilliance over £36,000 security-costs ?  Satire is power peeps.

Some more background on the artist & her intent from the Guardian:

Mimsy said she had adopted a pseudonym because, as the daughter of a Syrian father whose Jewish family had to go into exile in Lebanon when he was a child, she was acutely aware of the potential risk of speaking out.

“I love my freedom,” she said. “I’m aware of the very real threat to that freedom from Islamic fascism and I’m not going to pander to them or justify it like many people on the left are doing.”

She added that the idea of using Sylvanian Families “just popped into my head” as a way of demonstrating that fanaticism was not a question of race. Though the jihadis in the work are called “MICE-IS”, some are clearly cats or koalas and others have rabbits’ ears popping out of their masks. “I’m sick and tired of people calling criticism of fanatical Islam racist, because racism is about your skin colour and radical Islam is nothing to do with that. There are millions of Muslims who are shocked by it too,” said Mimsy.

She added that she had made the tableaux between December 2014 and May 2015 and had looked on in horror as, one by one, her imagined scenarios came true. In one scene, jihadis lurk outside a schoolroom, while a class of girls sit at their desks; in another, gunmen bristle on the horizon as holidaymakers sunbathe on a beach. “It was creepy, because each time I imagined a scene it happened in reality. I made the beach scene before the Tunisian massacre and the schoolroom scene before Boko Haram abducted the schoolgirls in Nigeria,” she said.

We need this.

RT Trolls the Republican Debate

Some brilliant assholery here from the former Russia Today.  Love Matthews at 1'05.

The Nightly Show on Fox News' Phoney War on Cops

Shit, Balko made it on to the Nightly Show.  Mentioned this nonsense earlier here.  Meanwhile, notice that Fox has apparently modified this particular story...

Police officer reported as killed "execution-style" may have actually staged own suicide: http://t.co/xBJqZIsxWt

— Clara Jeffery (@ClaraJeffery) September 15, 2015

Tony Abbott

The man will be missed.*


* For his comedic genius, obviously.

Jimmy Kimmel on the New iPhone

This is telling.  Though...a little lazy to recycle your own jokes.

FWIW, they're right on the form-factor.  Who the hell can fit those things in a pocket ?

Irish Women on 'Ginger' Jokes

And then most of the news-stories seem too obvious, too old, too boring, too depressing, too Trump-centric even in the case of one country's politics, for anything other than a link-dump. Wait, women-only train-carriages ?  Is Corbyn advocating Sharia ?! Scandal ! Scandal !  Scandal !

Always cartoons, and Bell's latest is a beaut., if only for what he did to Harman, but I just ran Bell, and I have to have some kind of standards.  And for some of the other dailies...

But I do feel I should post something more than a half-century-old song, so*...

I do feel like the specific sport of Ginger-baiting is more a phenomenon of the British Isles than elsewhere, but no doubt some degree of discrimination is present in any country where redheads are a minority (ie, er...well, practically everywhere).  I'll never understand it.


* If only out of laziness in continuing to avoid a couple of other subjects on which I meant to write.