Spamusement rocks!
Spam: oh man, Spamusement started off well, and has just been getting better and better; * HEATH WARNING * had me laughing out loud, and the idea of linking the entries since August 8 as a series is genius.
Katamari Damacy
Games: Katamari Damacy (roughly translated as ‘Clumpsoul’)
is a game where you roll around various landscapes, making a giant
ball of ’stuff’.
Here’s a review. It looks like sheer genius; here’s hoping
it gets a US/Euro release!
Tags: ball, clumpsoul, damacy, euro, game, games, genius, katamari, release, review, stuff
Anti-high-volume-email-deployers!
Funny: The Daily Show last night did an absolutely fantastic Rob Corddry segment with Scott Richter; sheer genius. Apparently, Scott is a ‘high-volume email deployer’, and spam is all the fault of the USPS, or something.
Don’t miss it… here’s hoping Lisa Rein digitizes it!
Tags: daily, deployer, email, fault, funny, genius, night, segment, show, spam, usps
IRELAND IS THE LARGEST CONSUMER OF TEA IN THE WORLD (per head)
Ireland: I’ve just come across Dervala’s take on the I am Canadian Molson ad. Total genius!
Nathan Barley v. Chris Morris
The Guardian reports that fake-news genius Chris Morris is collaborating on a new show with Charlie Brooker:
This has led to persistent rumours on internet talkboards and gossip sites that the show will be based around TVGoHome’s character Nathan Barley.
Barley, the star of a fictional TVGoHome docusoap, is a loathsome public school educated, Hoxton-dwelling new media type, obsessed with gadgets and extreme sports.
But given Morris’s fondness for windups and spoofs, this could just as easily be a red herring.
Apparently, Morris and Brooker have collaborated before on smaller segments. Whatever it is, I’m all for it. Fact times Importance equals News!
Gross: The Indian ‘fly boy’ has doctors baffled. ‘Doctors carried out a cystoscopy to clear the boy’s urinary tract, but the treatment has failed because two more flies emerged out of his penis on Monday.’ (aaargh)
Tags: boy, character, docusoap, genius, gossip, guardian, internet, show, star, tvgohome
‘Crows shall feed on Gordon Brown’s pancreas’
Ben Hammersley links to these two works of comedic genius: Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf’s new column in the Grauniad:
Earlier in the week I watched as joyous Iraqis celebrated our triumph by pulling down - with the help of defecting American soldiers - Baghdad’s only statue of actor Robert Donat as Mr Chips. I understand it was quite a good film, but we have no need of your imperialist icons now. Saddam has freed us from your oppressive rule, so we are saying goodbye to your Mr Chips. Ha! I have made myself laugh! I will not gloat further over this thrilling but predictable defeat which vindicates me so completely.
Also, a blog here. Brilliant.
Tags: actor, al, column, genius, grauniad, help, iraqis, statue, triumph, week
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A rumour of William Shatner farting during an interview pushed sales of a Star Trek video beyond the final frontier. Mark Borkowski applauds stroke of PR genius …
The source of the story was the video company’s publicist, who applied a nifty bit of creativity to one of the most intractable problems in entertainment PR. … Getting coverage for a video release is well nigh impossible because the stars have already done the circuit and everything’s already been said.
Tags: farting, frontier, genius, interview, rumour, source, star, stroke, trek, video
