I will start with just tagging them writing and decided later if I want to move these maundering into a category (spoiler: I expect I will)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe point<\/h3>\n
Preventing brain fog? A curiosity to see if I can actually be more productive? An attempt to create a sense of order? A desire to be independently solvent (rich seems a bit much to ask for)? Ongoing Earl jealousy?<\/p>\n
Today’s thoughts<\/h2>\nNetflix, Youtube et al.<\/h3>\n
I mentioned on Earl’s blog that I had watched very few movies this past year. But what we have watched is a lot of sitcom-ish stuff like Modern Family<\/em>, The Muppets<\/em>, Letterkenney<\/em>, Rick and Morty<\/em> and a ton of British panel\/comedy shows. It turns out I am increasing enjoying European (is British European anymore?) stuff.<\/p>\nAustralia<\/h4>\n
Not really but the producers and original movie was Australian. What We Do in the Shadows<\/em> is a mockumentary about vampires living in Staten Island. It also stars Matt Berry who is one of those sneaks-up-on-you-from-behind funny guys that I first encountered as a boss on The IT Crowd<\/em>. Only 3 seasons but well worth a watch if you can find it!<\/p>\nL reminds me we also watched Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ House of Fun<\/em>. Very, very… err…pythonesque? Aunty Donna is a comedy trio from Australia and they are pretty darn funny in that bizarro way…<\/p>\nFrance<\/h4>\n
I highly recommend Lupin<\/em>. Two series of 5 parts with a third promised. Very clever and suspenseful and with that perfect gentleman-thief vibe. If you know French at all you have the added enjoyment of arguing with the subtitle translator’s choices. Quite bizarre sometimes.<\/p>\nWe also watched and enjoyed Dix pour cent<\/em> which was strangely and, in my opinion, detrimentally translated to Call my Agent!<\/em>. It has 4 seasons and a promised movie reunion coming soon. Very soap-opera but the French take keeps it from seeming inane like Dallas<\/em> et al. We really enjoyed it.<\/p>\nBritain<\/h4>\n
We worked our way through Stephen Fry’s (and now Sandi Toksvig) QI<\/em>. Funny and smart. And you learn (and relearn) so much…<\/p>\n8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown<\/em> is a must see. Countdown<\/em> is a Jeopardy-type show involving solving anagrams and math problems and has been on the air forever. 8 out of 10 Cats<\/em> was\/is a comedy panel show hosted by Jimmy Carr with Sean Lock and Jon Richardson as team captains. Back in 2012 Channel 4 had a Mashup event where they mashed up a bunch of different shows from their channel into a special. 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown<\/em> was a huge success and now is produced (alongside the originals) with 5\u20138 episodes every year.<\/p>\nWe also started in on Mock the Week<\/em> hosted by Dara \u00d3 Briain and are slowly making our way to the present. There are currently 20 seasons starting way back in 2005 and we are somewhere in Season 10. Funny, irreverent and you learn a lot about Britain’s political and social scenes. We are still in the Obama era and I am looking forward to the Trump period…<\/p>\nTaskMaster<\/em> has also been a highlight. Greg Davies and Alex Horne have made a fantastic series where celebrities are challenged to do ridiculous things. Another one we are all caught up in (12 series so far) and looking forward to the next season.<\/p>\n
\nSuffice it say we have had our share of belly laughs this long dismal year. Thank god for British humour. And Youtube. And friends with Hulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I know, I know 2 posts in a day…if you are looking for the annual book post scroll down. But I think, once again, I will try to write “every day” in 2022. I did it back in 2012 (see link above) to bizarre effect and since have had sporadicly poor success at writing anything […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[133],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14883"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14893,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14883\/revisions\/14893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}