Tom Lennon • Freelance Writer: comedy and pop culture

Freelance writer specializing in comedy and the geekier end of the pop culture spectrum.

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Filakeo

'You've all seen that Busch beer commercial where the girl in the short hot pants opens the beer bottle on her belt buckle, leaves it there, lets it foam over her hand and over the bottle and the voiceover goes: "Get yourself a BUSCH!" 'Hmmm. You know what that looks like..?' Bill Hicks - Relentless Local chocolate giant Cadbury are in the news today. The board are resisting a hostile takeover bid from US food giant Kraft, saying that the "derisory" bid is an attempt buy the company "on the cheap". If the poster advertising the Cadbury Flake on the [...]

Shatner and the Old Vic

Courtesy of my good pal Jez, here's Lord William of Shatner advertising 80's 8-bit home computer, the VIC-20: I know that Captain Kirk was promoted to Admiral in the Star Trek movies, but I don't recall any mention of him being made a Commodore.

Our Man Iannucci

The satirical comedy The Thick of It - the third series of which is currently being broadcast by the Beeb - is officially my favourite TV programme of the year. This is quite an achievement considering this household doesn't watch TV anymore. Isn't the BBC iPlayer a wonderful thing? The Thick of It is produced and directed by Armando Iannucci, who also produced and directed In The Loop, my favourite comedy feature film of 2009. I am, as you might guess, a fan of Armando Iannucci. This is nothing new. I've been an admirer of Iannucci's work since he co-created [...]

Edward Woodward, 1930-2009

I've left it a wee bit late, but I just wanted to say a few words about the recent death of Edward Woodward. It's always sad when a performer you've admired and respected for a sizable chunk of your life passes away. In my knee-high-to-a-grasshopper days, I always thought of Woodward as Callan, the disillusioned and conscientious bad-ass assassin he played in the gritty British TV show of the same name. The Callan series was a bit before my time - it was first broadcast in the late-1960s and early-1970s - but as a kid I never let a chronological [...]

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