Christopher Walken reads “The Three Little Pigs”
An evening pause: How about another modern retelling of a classic children’s tale? Christopher Walken reads “The Three Little Pigs”.
Tag: television
Fry and Laurie – Tricky Linguistics
Eric Idle – Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
John Adams – the vote
An evening pause: To close out my Declaration of Independence celebration that I began two days ago, here is the vote and public release of the Declaration, as portrayed in the 2008 John Adams mini-series.
To all government leaders, you ignore these words at your peril:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. [emphasis mine]
Quebe Sisters – It’s a sin to tell a lie
Loretta Lynn and the Muppets – One’s on the way
Mary Tyler Moore Show – The Ted Baxter School of Broadcasting
An evening pause: A scene from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, “Ted Baxter’s Famous Broadcasters School”, originally broadcast February 22, 1975. One of behindtheblack’s regular readers was reminded of this episode by my press conference experience on Wednesday.
D-Day
Sammy Davis and Anthony Newley perform a medley of Newley songs
An evening pause: Sammy Davis and Anthony Newley perform a medley of Newley songs, from a 1972 television performance.
Monty Python: Defending yourself against a banana
Cinderella – Julie Andrews singing “Impossible”
An evening pause: , The song “Impossible,” sung by Julie Andrews and Edie Adams, from the live 1957 television production of Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.
For the world is filled with zanies and fools
Who don’t believe in sensible rules
And won’t believe what sensible people say
And because these daft and dewy-eyed dopes
Keep building up impossible hopes,
Impossible things keep happening every day.
Reverend Jim’s driving test from Taxi
David Bowie — Space Oddity (1969)
12 Girls Band
The annual spaghetti crop
Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie
Jasmine Flower
Allan Sherman – Hail to thee, Fat Persons!
John Denver – Back Home Again
SNL A very British movie
An evening pause: For anyone who likes to watch modern British movies, whether on public television or in the theater.
Jack Benny vs Groucho
An evening pause: All funny, but the best moment is the look on Groucho’s face when he asks Benny the “Big Question”.
Johnny Carson and Betty White
The Shirelles – Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Live, 1964)
Linda Ronstadt – You tell me that I’m falling down
My Blackberry is not working
Ultimate luck compilation
Monty Python – The dead parrot sketch
George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra
An evening pause: The central scene from the 1976 television production of George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra, starring Alec Guinness and Genevieve Bujold.
[The uproar in the streets again reaches them.]
Caesar: Do you hear? These knockers at your gate are also believers in vengence and in stabbing. You have slain their leader: it is right that they shall slay you. If you doubt it, ask your four counselors here. And then in the name of that right [he emphasizes the word with great scorn] shall I not slay them for murdering their Queen, and be slain in my turn by their countrymen as the invader of their fatherland? Can Rome do less then slay these slayers, too, to show the world how Rome avenges her sons and her honor. And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race than can understand.
Deep Space 9 – The Quickening
An evening pause: Deep Space 9, “The Quickening.” The entire population of a planet has a disease that kills all, horribly, but only after many years. No one believes a cure is possible, except Julian Bashir.