A marvelous syllabus. I hope I can get to most of these. If there’s room for some plays and TV, I’d also add Waiting for Godot, Da Ali G Show, and Veep.
A marvelous syllabus. I hope I can get to most of these. If there’s room for some plays and TV, I’d also add Waiting for Godot, Da Ali G Show, and Veep.
Time for Beany. In the 50s, Stan Freeberg and Daws Butler nailed stupidity night after night, on tv, under the guise of a children's show. The characters were Beany an overly bright little boy, his uncle, Uncle Captain, and Cecil The SeaSick Sea Serpent. The ship they sailed on was the Leaking Lena.
That worked well didn't it. In eliminating stupidity. Almost as effective as all that cruel,sharp,on point and very funny satire in Weimar Germany derailed Hitler. And of course that crop of intensely bright young men in the early 1960s,the likes of David Frost,Johnathan Miller,Alan Bennet et al with their undeniable truth couched in laugh out loud funniness they shamed old privilege out of countenance and brought in the new meritocratic age and thanks to them no longer is Britain's Parliamentary system dominated by public school educated men and our state media ie the BBC no longer requires all entrants to be possessed of a degree (even the cleaners I expect). How antiquated was it,when the majority of our Prime Ministers had the common factor of being educated at Eton.
A marvelous syllabus. I hope I can get to most of these. If there’s room for some plays and TV, I’d also add Waiting for Godot, Da Ali G Show, and Veep.
Time for Beany. In the 50s, Stan Freeberg and Daws Butler nailed stupidity night after night, on tv, under the guise of a children's show. The characters were Beany an overly bright little boy, his uncle, Uncle Captain, and Cecil The SeaSick Sea Serpent. The ship they sailed on was the Leaking Lena.
That worked well didn't it. In eliminating stupidity. Almost as effective as all that cruel,sharp,on point and very funny satire in Weimar Germany derailed Hitler. And of course that crop of intensely bright young men in the early 1960s,the likes of David Frost,Johnathan Miller,Alan Bennet et al with their undeniable truth couched in laugh out loud funniness they shamed old privilege out of countenance and brought in the new meritocratic age and thanks to them no longer is Britain's Parliamentary system dominated by public school educated men and our state media ie the BBC no longer requires all entrants to be possessed of a degree (even the cleaners I expect). How antiquated was it,when the majority of our Prime Ministers had the common factor of being educated at Eton.