In the meantime...

Since I am working on my dissertation, and not really able to spare the time or thought for a real blog entry at the moment, here's a few little things that I find amusing (and that are vaguely related to my usual theme):

A Bit of Fry and Laurie: 'Sex Talk In Class'

I love this clip; I believe it was the first sketch on the first episode of A Bit of Fry and Laurie .

A Bit of Fry and Laurie: 'The Department' (Part 1)

This one struck me, upon first watching, as an unusually complex comedy sketch. The strands all come together, at the end, in a triumph of the bizarre.
Probably, the most relevant part of this to my dissertation study at the moment is the parodic sultriness of the 'wife': the performative nature of gender at its most blunt.

Cracked.com's take on 'Why Romantic Comedies are Secretly Bad for You'

Why Romantic Comedies Are Secretly Bad for You -- powered by Cracked.com

True to form for Cracked.com, their humorous sketches of modern culture are disconcertingly insightful.

Hope you like them!