Your comic week ahead

Today you’ll mostly be talking about a)  Adele’s triumphant win at the Grammys. Didn’t she do well, eh? Isn’t she a nice lady? So down-to-earth etc. And didn’t that doctor do a great job on those pol-, pol- – what do you call them? Oh, polyps on her throat.

We’ve just looked up what a polyp is: it’s an abnormal growth of tissue projecting from a mucous membrane. Eww. This hasn’t made us feel good.

So moving on: b) Katy Perry’s hair. She’s obviously taken her commitment to that Smurf voiceover way too seriously.

Also on the agenda is of course c) Whitney Houston. What to say? Maybe you’ll be playing ‘Saving All My Love For You’ and perchance remarking at the jump in price for her back catalogue on iTunes, so please excuse us if we’re feeling a bit blue today.

What’s more, tomorrow is Valentine’s Day.

Yay.

Please let us know if someone gets a bunch of flowers delivered to their desk so we can come round and vom in their waste paper basket. There’s always one, isn’t there?! Lording it round like they are the cat that’s got the milk. There’s some kind of analogy in there if you look hard enough.

Honestly, this annual ‘smoochathon’ doesn’t get any better, does it? A Clinton’s card if you’re lucky, a cute teddy which says ‘I Wuv You’ if you’re even luckier. Can someone please have a word?

And if you’re not in a relationship, you get another couple of hours to count the four walls at home, so you stumble out only to be met with across-the-board loved-up smugness when you venture into a Zizzi for a pasta putanesca – and no doubt at a Valentine’s price too. Bloody cheek.

So we’re going to stay home and eat that M&S Valentine’s dinner deal and quaff their pink fizzy wine under the duvet. Ha-ha-ha. That will teach everyone!!

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This week we have mostly been enjoying…

- The snow. When it was all white and fluffy. Not when it was all dirty and forced us to throw away our suede shoes. 

- One of the most enjoyable moments of the week has to have been Karl Lagerfeld calling Adele ‘a little too fat’, not quite thinking through what the whole wide world might have to say about his body image. Facebook was simply crying out for you to comment… 

To make matters worse, he tried to claw it back with an admission that she is a ‘beautiful girl’ and that his comments were taken out of context. Like yeah.

But what’s most hilarious is that for 99% of the time the whole world pretends that fashion is a nice happy, clappy place. 

- Harry Redknapp was cleared of all sorts of skulduggery… at the mention of taxes though, we went into a fear spiral about our own self-assessment after remembering those Moira Stewart posters.

Anyway we’re sure that someone with a comic turn of phrase could come up with some hilarity around Harry Redknapp, Capello and timely bungs. We can’t quite piece it together. Correction: too lazy to write something for the Comedy Central lawyers to get us to re-write.

- In other hot topics, we also can’t help but wonder what’s going on in the Cheryl Cole-Harvey scenario: he’s saying they ‘dated’, she’s saying they didn’t. Who to believe? Why to care? Has someone got a reality show or new hair or something?

- In non-hot topics: our complaint of the week is with computer updates. They’re always so untimely and rude and as welcome as a cold call. Java – you regularly rock up when we’re in the middle of having a nice time. WE DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR JAVA UPDATE. WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT JAVA IS. 

- Finally, did you hear the gag of the week: Tim Vine brought down the house, erm, well won a LAFTA award this week with ‘Conjunctivitis.com – that’s a site for sore eyes.’

He has a point when you visit that website, there are all sorts of links to win laser eye surgery.

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Celebrating Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston

We. Love. Jennifer Aniston. Obviously.

To celebrate what is her 43rd birthday, 43rd! – she’s still got it, still got it - let’s re-enjoy some quotes, facts and bits and pieces we’ve cobbled together off of the internet.

- She has nice hair… (that was a joke)

- Despite all the media rudeness over the years, she’s admirably realistic: ‘I guess we’d be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.’

- She’s one of the most highly-paid actresses in Hollywood, clocking up $8million for most movies and a whopping $10million for Just Go With It where she worked with Adam Sandler for the first time despite them knowing each other for 20 years.

- She does good things, having supported a wealth of causes over the years from non-profit organisations for an orphanage in Mexico to Haitian health care providers. She says, ‘I would love to sit down with all the people who are doing wrong in the world and go: Hey, what’s up with you? What is your f*cked up problem? Go smell the roses for crying out loud.’

- So what are her hardcore fans like? Not hardcore it would seem. ‘I don’t get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies.’

- Her next movie is Wanderlust where she’s reteamed with her The Object of my Affection star and Friends co-star Paul Rudd. It’s about a couple giving up their Manhattan lives for commune-living. We will bring you news of such things as they come to pass…

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Celebrating Ashton Kutcher

Ashton Kutcher

What with the excitement generated by the Super Bowl, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday – nice work on CD’s part conducting a great PR campaign from beyond the grave btw – you may have failed to realise that today is Two and a Half Men‘s Ashton Kutcher‘s 34th birthday. Happy Birthday, sir.

To celebrate: here are five things you may not know about our hero:
1 – Ashton Kutcher got his big break by entering a modelling competition in 1998. But lost out to someone called Josh Duhamel. We can only imagine what happened to him… Oh.
2 – On Punk’d which he hosted, the tricks didn’t always work: wrestler Bill Goldberg was supposed to have a truck run over an exact replica of his prized motorcycle, but the stunt went wrong when the truck missed but the bike exploded anyway while Pamela Anderson denies she was ever Punk’d, saying she was not convinced by the porn movie being filmed in her back garden. We weren’t convinced by the one people filmed in ours either: the dialogue just wasn’t very realistic.
3- In 2010, Ashton was named one of Time Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People. With over 11.5 million friends on Facebook, we think this is probably just a fad and Time’ll get a handle on what really is power very soon.
4- Comedy quote from Mr Kutcher: “My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures!” Isn’t it good to know that your mum can embarrass you however ‘influential’ you are?
5 – Weirdly, there must be something in the water for those 7th February birthday types as also sharing the fella’s birthday are none other than Chris Rock and Eddie Izzard. But they’re not quite as handsome.
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