HR Manager: So, what is your name?
Me: Hired. My name is Hired.
HR: You’re hired?
Me: Great! See you on Monday!
HR: So we need somebody very responsible for this position.
Me: Oh, you should definitely hire me then. At my last job every time something went wrong everyone would say I was responsible!
HR: So do you have any weaknesses?
Me: I don’t always listen super closely.
HR: Really?
Me: I would love a beer, thank you!
HR: “Do you have any weaknesses?”
“I’m very honest”
HR “That doesn’t sound like a weakness to me”
“I don’t give a fuck what you think”
I was hesitating before posting this, but we should be able to find humour everywhere.
A Russian soldier returns to Moscow, wounded after fighting in Ukraine. His wife asks him, “what were you fighting for? They are not telling us much. What is military operation all about”
“We are fighting for our glorious leader, a proxy war between Russia and NATO”
“Oh, right, how is it going?”
“Well, so far we have lost over 20.000 soldiers, we lost over 2000 tanks, 200 aircraft, and our flagship in the Black Sea among many other pieces of equipment”
“Oh, wow. And what about NATO?”
“NATO? Those pigs haven’t turned up yet!”
Random question from a British person to Americans and Canadians and Australians and everyone else.
Do you have sketch comedy shows?
If you do what are the best sketches (not the whole show) that I as a British person should watch?
British people, what sketches do you think others should see?
Fast Show
Big Train
As a Canadian, yes. Yes we do.
Kids in the Hall (they have a new season, but the original is from the 90s).
Bob & Doug McKenzie:
And, of course, Red Green
Not technically a sketch show, but for NZ humour I’d recommend Flight of the Conchords
Love a bit of the Conchords.
Im squeezing your head!!
Also, Mark McKinney from Kids in the Hall is in Suoerstore, where he is excellent
I think anyone who knows Hugh Laurie from HOUSE would get a kick out of “A bit of Fry and Laurie”.
After that most of my recommendations are (gulp) many decades old. The Two Ronnies. The Day Today. Mitchell and Webb, maybe? Morecambe and Wise? Was French and Saunders actually good? I don’t know.
As someone who officially has no sense of humour, the very few sketches I’ve enjoyed seem to have been from Mitchell and Webb.
Mitchell and Webbs 2 Nazi sketches are great.
Are we the baddies?
Also I love the ‘Bronze induction training sketch’.
Armstrong and Miller also did some very good sketches, and The Day Today is seconded even though it just looks like any other news show now. Fry and Laurie was fantastic.
I certainly did!
I, like a great many people, still use fast show catchphrases. (Case in point, it was very hot at the weekend.*)
Can you get into the fast show later or did you have to be there.
*which was nice.
This sketch is my favourite “Big Train” one, with Simon Pegg at his funniest. It accurately reflects life as an adult pop fan.
The Fast Show has the advantage the sketches come quick and fast, so even if a couple in a row fall flat you’ll soon be on to one that is good.
It’s the small childrens voices that makes this.
Armstrong and Miller
Big Train
Bit of Fry and Laurie
Bremner, Bird, and Fortune
Chewin the Fat
Day to Day
Fast Show
French and Saunders
Goodness Gracious Me
Hale and Pace
I also think they’d like Jeeves and Wooster!
A cat and a dog argue about what species is more important for humans.
The dog goes: "It is definitely us, dogs, that are more important. Look at humans, they named one of the more important body parts after us, their fangs. Canine means that: “like the dog”.
To what he cat just smirks and says:
“You’re not going to win the naming a body part, do you know?”
