Sunday, March 30, 2008
From Prozzze to LOL
Having mocked at length (see, for example, this) the previous occupant of Radio 4's Point Of View slot, I should alert anyone who hasn't noticed to the fact that the great Clive James is now back, and on brilliant form. This, which I caught this morning, had me laughing out loud, almost throughout - no mean feat so early in the day and after a night cruelly truncated by the move to BST.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Clive's still alive then?
ReplyDeleteStill alive? After reading this I wasn't too sure.
ReplyDeleteThey can't all be winners, I suppose.
he's definitely better read than heard. the martial arts art film piece was the funniest, great turns of phrase, a face like body-builder's bicep looking for its original arm, and, both eyeballs sharing a single socket. LOL. I love the apparent ramble and I love the way those commenting at the end didn't really get it. I was a big fan of his autobiographies but lost touch with his work somewhere along the way.
ReplyDeleteI've got a feeling the stuff about his youthful cycling exploits is more or less lifted from Unreliable Memoirs - not that it matters, it was worth the lift.
ReplyDeleteClive`s one liners must be the best in the business
ReplyDeleteAfter the Speer interview and the acceptable face of nazism`s "Juden, vat Juden ?...
"Speer is a man who knows how many beans make five, unfortunately he doesn`t know how many make two."