This was very nearly a shoe in for Wet Wet Wet's version of "With a Little Help from my Friends" but then my eyes lighted on this gem, which could just as easily be posted in my Guilty Pleasures thread...
It's a Stock, Aitken and Waterman masterpiece; Hazell Dean with Who's Leaving Who?:
Last night I saw some of Mrs Brown's Boys for the first time. I found it quite enjoyable although I felt that, in some ways, it was derivative of Father Ted. It certainly taps into a similar vein of the humour to be found in parochial Irish life.
Anyway, a brief browse of the BBC Comedy site found the following clip. It's not particularly big or clever comedy but it is funny and brilliantly timed. My main complaint is the volume of the laughter track - I find it a bit too dominant:
One of my memories of Christmases past is of my mother and I, once we had a telly, watching the ballet productions that BBC2 screen(ed). Funnily enough, my father would often excuse himself whilst these were on!
In particular, I remember watching (and mum, a friend and I went to see it live some years later) was Matthew Bourne's innovative production of Swan Lake which features an all-male corps de ballet.
Here are some excerpts performed at the 1998 Royal Variety Performance and introduced by The Two Ronnies:
Apologies if you would have liked (or preferred) to have seen Jim Davidson after the break...
This week's Sunday Sound is inspired by a bargainous purchase in Fopp yesterday - I got a Double DVD of Franz Ferdinand featuring a number of live tracks and two complete concerts for the grand total of £3!
I refer the reader to the second definition above; "a... point of intensity of emotional excitement". It is no exaggeration to say that, using that definition, this video generated such a reaction:
