Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

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The Goon Show > Round the Horne > Monty Python > Vic reeves

ftfy

Discovered R4 Extra last weekend, loads of Hancock's Half Hour and Round The Horne of a Saturday afternoon. So good.

I'm with Sorethroat and Khornight2 on this one. Of course there's as much of an arc in taste and talent in the creation of "nonsense" as any other style. Just being witlessly "random" is not anywhere near enough to be funny. Otherwise I'd be cracking up at those adverts for random sweets shaped like random items. I'm not. No one is. It's not funny.

It's become so worn as a comedy style these days that I find it hard to believe i'll ever find it charming or funny again. When I first saw Eddie Izzard doing stand up, his apparently "random" flights of fancy and surreal lists "jam! badgers!" etc had me clutching my sides. By the time I'd seen two or three of his shows I started to notice that the same items kept appearing in the "random" lists. Really not funny any more. See also, Ross Noble.

How can you mention nonsense without mentioning Lewis Carroll and Salvador Dali? The latter of which is clearly the parent of this.

James and the giant peach and MSND are pale examples of surrealism compared with the Alice books (not saying they aren't good, but hardly the best example of surrealism)

I didn't mention Lewis Carroll (even though he's actually my favourite purveyor of nonsense) because I'd already used two children's book writers in my analogy and I didn't want to give the impression that nonsense is only for kids. James and the Giant Peach seemed like a more suitable analogy to these paint things because of its content, which was visually evocative and simple, rather than Lewis Carroll who is visually evocative but highly complex, and also with a greater level of wordplay (which doesn't really work as an analogy to silly MS Paint pics).

And I didn't mention Dali because even though he's a surrealist, he isn't funny.

Hancock's Half Hour and Round The Horne of a Saturday afternoon. So good.

They did the Spike Miligan "Hitler, and my part in his downfall" series when it was Radio 7. Astonishing.

They did the Spike Miligan "Hitler, and my part in his downfall" series when it was Radio 7. Astonishing.

I didn't know they'd done that? That book is actually my favourite of all of Spike's output.

Narrated by Spike. On iPlayer perhaps? Dunno.

^^^^ Danny Dyer?

Get him in a headlock?

The fucking liar.

To be fair, no-one can saddle a shark like him.

Q5 > Goons > Python > Reeves

I can, and I do. All nonsense is nonsense. That's the point of it. You can't create nonsense out of stuff that makes sense. Nonsense is only funny because it doesn't make sense.

But that alone doesn't make it funny.

Chuck some repetition in there and you've got a meme.

See also, Ross Noble.

Noel Fielding. Dear God Noel Fielding.

Yo Dawg, heard you like talking nonsense about the merits of nonsense on a page full of nonsense.......

Chuck some repetition in there and you've got a meme.

See?

scooter combined with a wheely bag? I don't think I could hate anything more

fingers crossed a smug wanker stacks it and luggage flies everywhere while faceplanting...

It has the potential to make your holiday

Justin's nappy.

Best charity idea ever. One dollar per duct tape piece. (He’s the Principal)

^ That's a terrible way to treat Almac68 :(