Wretched Diva thread

[Recidiva]

Also influential for Monty Python was Gerard Hoffnung.

This is an extract from a live Hoffnung concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0mu7Ccrr60


Hoffnung is famous for the Bricklayer's Lament.

Never heard of him, that is wonderful, making me laugh.

I'll have to look up the Bricklayer's Lament.

 

[Recidiva]

Hoffnung is famous for the Bricklayer's Lament.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S_tvUpRm88

It sounds like a cartoon gone wrong. Drunken squirrels...bent trees...fairies smacking into the sides of rocks.

I'm sure there's a staggering bear.

How did this not make it into Fantasia?

 

[oggbashan]

Never heard of him, that is wonderful, making me laugh.

I'll have to look up the Bricklayer's Lament.

It is part of his address to the Oxford Union:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOGfg1B3ZMw

Bricklayer starts at 8:50

 

[Recidiva]

It is part of his address to the Oxford Union:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S_tvUpRm88

Bricklayer starts at 8:50

It stops at 7:12.

 

[oggbashan]

It stops at 7:12.

Sorry!

This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOGfg1B3ZMw

 

[Recidiva]

Sorry!

This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOGfg1B3ZMw

He kinda looks like a cross between Bob Hope and Winston Churchill.

 

[domroger]

It is part of his address to the Oxford Union:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOGfg1B3ZMw

Bricklayer starts at 8:50

Still funny after all these years .
Thanks for sharing .

 

[oggbashan]

Flanders and Swann: First and Second Law of Thermodynamics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnbiVw_1FNs

Song of the English:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vh-wEXvdW8

 

[Balladeer08]

Flanders and Swann: First and Second Law of Thermodynamics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnbiVw_1FNs

Song of the English:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vh-wEXvdW8

This is pinballing into all sorts of fun stuff!

 

[Balladeer08]

Just found this:

"Meryl Streep is going to play Ms. Foster Jenkins in a film directed by Stephen Frears,"


There's gonna be a lot of popcorn on the floor!

 

[Balladeer08]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8kiMCeudLg&index=3&list=PLvj5PvQaZYs38aDJjdS4EaEWz4sZrXqRA


Kittens! It just got both cuter and funnier!

 

[oggbashan]

Armstrong and Miller do Flanders and Swann:

Love Thy Neighbour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLDS9FCbxfo

 

[oggbashan]

Florence still inspires:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPYB9VrDUow