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“Does Humour Belong in Politics?”

By Tom Lennon ⋅ July 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Can you honestly imagine Lenny Bruce or Bill Hicks submitting to the discipline of the Whips? That was the Right Honourable MP for Ealing North, Stephen Pound, on this evening’s PM programme on Radio 4, once again justifying his status as one of the only contemporary British politicians I’d happily buy a pint for. Following [...]

The Day of Reckoning

By Tom Lennon ⋅ November 4, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

“I have this feeling that whoever’s elected president, like Clinton was, no matter what promises you make on the campaign trail – blah, blah, blah – when you win, you go into this smoky room with the twelve industrialist, capitalist scumf***s that got you in there, and this little screen comes down… and it’s a [...]

PJANG

By Tom Lennon ⋅ October 26, 2008 ⋅ One comment

“People Just Ain’t No Good” is a. a song by Nick Cave & Bad Seeds, b. a catchy mission statement for misanthropes, and, c. the title of a UK small press vet Rol Hirst’s excellent comeback comic. As you might expect from the title, the three stories that make up PJANG serve up a not [...]

You be the judge

By Tom Lennon ⋅ August 30, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

From The Grauniad earlier this week: “Russell Crowe has confirmed speculation that he aims to star as the comic Bill Hicks during an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald. Crowe, 44, is currently without a project for seven months due to a delay in filming Ridley Scott’s alternative Robin Hood tale, Nottingham. He told the [...]

The Magnificent Seven

By Tom Lennon ⋅ June 24, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

George Carlin was part of a very fine and very respectable American tradition – that of the painfully funny and dangerously smart freethinking foul-mouth. Many of my heroes belonged to this tradition, and it seems like most of them are now dead. Comics like Carlin and Bill Hicks – and writers like Robert Anton Wilson [...]