cont'd ...

I should have added Adam Hills and Jimeoin of the current generation.
And of course I love the talented American actor/comedian - Robin Williams.

And on this Forum - you can't go past Shadow Minister and Col Rouge.
Who are absolutely hysterical.

And on the political scene you can't beat Tony Abbott's take
on all things political.

Agree that the current manifestation of Hey Hey was less than spectacular.

But if you could've seen it in its heyday :) in the mid 70's when it was raw and unscripted and unstructured and uniquely Aussie. Well, those who weren't around to see it missed something very special.

I haven't yet seen an equivalent of the two Ronnies or Tommy Cooper or on the buses.
They made people laugh out of control without having to resort to crudeness.

Parts of Monty Python are funny but I do find MP generally unfunny particularly the highly exalted Holy Grail despite it's cult following during my uni days.

The British do very good comedy in the main - such as Not the Nine O'Clock news and some of the British Sketch shows. Hated some of the more slapstick humour such as Benny Hill and On the Buses etc.

There are some side splitting funny bits in the IT Crowd and some episodes which leave one a bit flat. The disabled toilet episode and the Russian Concentration Camp smoking episode had me crying with laughter.

The Colbert Report and Jon Stewart are very good.

The American Tea Party must be great fodder to all aspiring comedians in the US.

Hey Hey got a laugh out of me in the early days and I liked it's raw approach.

Just goes to show SOH is as varied as there are people.

its not funny at all

like this iranian joke
[seems mossad hit the wrong iranian]

first this
The semi-official ISNA news agency
identified the victim as Darioush Rezaei,
a 35-year-old physics professor involved in Iran’s nuclear program,

BUT THAT WAS A LIE...joke?

but here is another sad mossad joke
it began..a few days ago
ended in mass murder

it began with this
http://theforeigner.no/pages/news/abbas-to-meet-norwegian-foreign-minister/
Palestinian leader President Mahmoud Abbas is in Norway, Monday, for a working lunch with FM Jonas Gahr Støre to discuss the peace process and the current situation in Palestine

next

http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/07/19/53408557.html
Norway to support Palestinians – Norwegian FM

Norway will support Palestinians
who are set to press for recognition of the independence of their state by the United Nations,..says the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre...

next we had a youth rally
in support of a free palistein
http://tinyurl.com/3zhsj4w

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2011/07/youthcamp-killer-may-have-anti-palestine-motive.html

the murders own words
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.document.no%2Fanders-behring-breivik%2F

of course the usual al quarda propaganda[lies]

http://theforeigner.no/pages/news/islamic-extremist-claims-responsibility-for-oslo-bombing-group-retracts/
Helpers of the Global Jihad [read mossad]

have since issued a retraction
of their earlier statement claiming
that they* caused the bombing in central Oslo.

Oslo bomber is a Norwegian Freemason and a super ZIONIST!
http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/joeblow/oslo-bomber-norwegian-freemason-and-super-zionist

He was part of the Jewish anti-Muslim movement
in Europe by way of the Fjordman Organization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjordman

Quote:
Fjordman is an anonymous Norwegian blogger.
He writes articles critical of Islam and
he regards Muslim immigration as posing
a threat to Western civilization.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2575

fake?
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fakealqaeda.php
other flash backs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair

mossad fake blogging army
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/850/298/Israel_Hires_Internet_Soldiers_to_Penetrate_American_Forums,_Chatrooms.html

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/07/analyzing-oslo-attacks-part-two-if-it.html

http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2011/07/23/norwegian-terror-when-in-doubt-blame-the-muslims/

http://lonestarwatchdog.blogspot.com/2011/07/is-false-flag-terror-card-getting.html

http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/yet-another-program-on-what-do-white-jewish-think-tankers-in-d-c-think-the-u-s-should-do-about-iran/

recall christ church
seems a mossad agen[with multiple pasports
was found in a crushed car]
no link..but

more FROM..
the same old jokers

http://www.bobtuskin.com/2011/07/23/israel-urged-to-stop-faking-foreign-passports/
http://www.jeff-goodall.com/?p=5403
two killers
http://en.rian.ru/world/20110723/165350450.html

http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15810
http://bullionbullscanada.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21642:economic-rape-of-europe-nearly-complete-part-i&catid=45:international-commentary&Itemid=133

http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2011/07/israel-shamir-why-palestine-is-important-2/
http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/the-omnipotence-of-al-qaeda-an?xg_source=activity
http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=15819

looks like an insiders job
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2011/07/norway-attacks-suspect-anders-breivik.html

ripe for exploitation
http://yayacanada.blogspot.com/2011/07/norway-tragedy-already-exploited-by.html

just..like
911 practice pr/actice pr/act-ice
http://theintelhub.com/2011/07/23/norway-terror-attacks-now-being-compared-to-oklahoma-city-bombing-as-evidence-of-false-flag-operation-continues-to-mount/

yeah i know
you dont read links

but see the joke
http://www.bobtuskin.com/2011/07/23/no-normalisation-unless-israel-apologises-erdogan/

Lexi

Thank you for reminding me of Peter Ustinov. Yep, his droll humour enthralled me back in the day.

The postings of Col Rouge along with the inimitable trio of Arjay, rexw and OUG, contribute greatly to what Samuel Johnson called “the harmless stock of public pleasure.”

I have no doubt that should he ever become Prime Minister Tony Abbott will achieve true comic greatness, maybe even exceeding Gillard in that respect. But as Leader of the Opposition he’s not quite there. It's a limitation of his position rather than lack of innate talent.

Pelican

I find Jon Stewart a bit lame.

I confess to some sympathy with members of the Tea Party. They have more in common with the Egyptian protesters in Tahrir square than either group would care to acknowledge.

Both groups live in countries where the rich are getting richer while they are getting poorer. Both groups feel, justifiably, that they are being exploited, lied to and ignored.

And both groups are being manipulated – by the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists in the case of the Egyptians and by powerful financial interests in the case of the Americans. Neither group started off that way of course. But that’s how it seems to be ending up.

Egypt and the US are two very different countries so the parallels are not exact. But they are there nonetheless.

Of course I do not subscribe to the economic lunacy of the Tea Party. But are they any more lunatic than the economic policies that started under Bush and have continued under Obama?

Are they more lunatic than Australian economics? How do we, a major mineral exporter, manage to have a budget deficit in the midst of the biggest minerals price boom in decades? What happens when, as will inevitably happen, the boom ends and commodity prices resume their centuries’ long downward trend*?

*In real, inflation adjusted, currency terms