#griff rhys jones

[ultimate88]

"Shall we fight over the last cream horn?"

Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) || 4:50 from Paddington or What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw

[georgefairbrother]

A little golden moment from Not the Nine O'Clock News (BBC 1979-1982).

The Soviet nuclear missiles have been launched, with Armageddon just minutes away, but according to the panellists on Question Time, this is the least of Britain's problems.

"…We’re sitting here talking about a nuclear holocaust, casually discussing the destruction of the entire planet, and ignoring the major issue, which is the appalling record of this Conservative Government…"

[samott]

Minden izeben borzaszto, de micsoda szereplogarda: Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean, hello!), Griff Rhys Jones es a csodalatos Mel Smith.

@viteez szives figyelmebe.

[makeitquietly]

Griff Rhys Jones serenades Mel Smith. 😂🥰

[murraywalker]

The other day I had complete brain freeze and thought that Griff Rhys Jones (this guy)

Played Gimli (this guy)

That would have been a completely different trilogy entirely

[countesspetofi]

Smith and Jones - The Union Man

A memory of this sketch popped into my head, and I had to go find it on YouTube. It has never not reduced me to tears of laughter.

[otakunoculture]

All Is Not Well in Future TX, A British Time Travelling Teenage Comedy

Future TX ix coming to #VOD this week! This #british #independent film has a few #YA elements to like and it's more of a BBC #television style #sciencefiction episode than anything else. Full #moviereview at:

Coming to VOD Apr 18, 2023 The teens trying to save all of humanity in Future TX may well be tempus fugitives if they don’t get their act together. Here, Dylan (Arran Kemp) and Molly (Adele Congreve) get to buy their very first smartphones. Although they look oversized to carry, someone from the hereafter calls them and says the world is doomed! This reasonably fast set up also reveals what will…

[bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews]

Fallen Leaves (PG): A Brief Encounter in a Helsinki Karaoke bar.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Fallen Leaves ” (2023) (from the London Film Festival). Original Finnish title: Kuolleet lehdet When I worked for IBM in sales support in the 1990’s I occasionally had assignments to Helsinki. There was an IBMer there that I worked with called Kari Hartikainen. Kari was ex-Finnish-SAS and the most rectangular man I ever met. “Built like a brick shit-house” as my…

[sequentialprophet]

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[davedyecom]

PODCAST: Dave Brown

When I put these blogs together I build up a file. Work for every client goes into a file, that goes into the appropriate agency file, the agency are numbered so that they come chronologically. It sounds a faff, it is a faff, but the only any way I can do it. Anyway, the last file is generally ‘P.R’ – all the news clippings, interviews and pictures that the individual has accumulated over the…

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

My starting point when it comes to the consideration of any issue relating to free speech is my passionate belief that the second most precious thing in life is the right to express yourself freely. The most precious thing in life I think is food in your mouth and the third most precious is a roof over your head but a fixture in the Number 2 slot for me is free expression, just below the need to sustain life itself. That is because I have enjoyed free expression in this country all my professional life and expect to continue to do so, I personally highly unlikely to be arrested for whatever laws exist to contain free expression, because of the undoubtedly privileged position that is afforded to those of a high public profile. So, my concerns are less for myself and more for those more vulnerable because of their lower profile. Like the man arrested in Oxford for calling a police horse, gay. Or the teenager arrested for calling the Church of Scientology a cult. Or the café owner arrested for displaying passages from the bible on a TV screen.

When I heard of some of these more ludicrous offences and charges, I remembered that I had been here before in a fictional context. I once did a show called Not the Nine O’Clock News, some years ago, and we did a sketch where Griff Rhys-Jones played Constable Savage, a manifestly racist police officer to whom I, as his station commander, is giving a dressing down for arresting a black man on a whole string of ridiculous, trumped up and ludicrous charges. The charges for which Constable Savage arrested Mr. Winston Kodogo of 55 Mercer Road were these:

‘Walking on the cracks in the pavement.’

‘Walking in a loud shirt in a built-up area during the hours of darkness’ and one of my favourites ‘Walking around all over the place.’

He was also arrested for ‘Urinating in a public convenience’ and ‘Looking at me in a funny way’.

Who would have thought that we would end up with a law that would allow life to imitate art so exactly. I read somewhere, a defender of the status quo claiming that the fact that the gay horse case was dropped after the arrested man refused to pay the fine and that the Scientology case was also dropped at some point during the court process was proof that the law working well, ignoring the fact that the only reason these cases were dropped was because of the publicity that they had attracted. The Police sensed that ridicule was just around the corner and withdrew their actions. But what about the thousands of other cases that did not enjoy the oxygen of publicity? That weren’t quite ludicrous enough to attract media attention?  Even for those actions that were withdrawn, people were arrested, questioned, taken to court and then released. That isn’t a law working properly: that is censoriousness of the most intimidating kind, guaranteed to have, as Lord Dear says, a ‘chilling effect’ on free expression and free protest.

Parliament’s Joint committee on Human Rights summarized, as you may know, this whole issue very well by saying ‘While arresting a protestor for using threatening or abusive speech may, depending on the circumstances, be a proportionate response, we do not think that language or behaviour that is merely insulting should ever be criminalized in this way.’ The clear problem with the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism is easily construed as insult by certain parties. Ridicule is easily construed as insult. Sarcasm, unfavourable comparison, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy can be interpreted as insult. And because so many things can be interpreted as insult, it is hardly surprising that so many things have been, as the examples I talked about earlier show.

Although the law under discussion has been on the statute book for over 25 years, it is indicative of a culture that has taken hold of the programmes of successive governments that, with the reasonable and well-intended ambition to contain obnoxious elements in society, has created a society of an extraordinarily authoritarian and controlling nature. It is what you might call The New Intolerance, a new but intense desire to gag uncomfortable voices of dissent. ‘I am not intolerant’, say many people; say many softly spoken, highly educated, liberal-minded people: ‘I am only intolerant of intolerance’. And people tend to nod sagely and say ‘Oh, wise words, wise words’ and yet if you think about this supposedly inarguable statement for longer than five seconds, you realize that all it is advocating is the replacement of one kind of intolerance with another. Which to me doesn’t represent any kind of progress at all. Underlying prejudices, injustices or resentments are not addressed by arresting people: they are addressed by the issues being aired, argued and dealt with preferably outside the legal process. For me, the best way to increase society’s resistance to insulting or offensive speech is to allow a lot more of it. As with childhood diseases, you can better resist those germs to which you have been exposed.

We need to build our immunity to taking offence, so that we can deal with the issues that perfectly justified criticism can raise. Our priority should be to deal with the message, not the messenger. As President Obama said in an address to the United Nations only a month or so ago: ‘Llaudable efforts to restrict speech can become a tool to silence critics or oppress minorities. The strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech.’ And that is the essence of my thesis, more speech. If we want a robust society, we need more robust dialogue and that must include the right to insult or to offend. And as, even if, as Lord Dear says, you know, the freedom to be inoffensive is no freedom at all.

The repeal of this word in this clause will be only a small step, but it will, I hope, be a critical one in what should be a longer-term project to pause and slowly rewind a creeping culture of censoriousness. It is a small skirmish in the battle, in my opinion, to deal with what Sir Salman Rushdie refers to as the ‘outrage industry’ – self-appointed arbiters of the public good, encouraging media-stoked outrage, to which the police feel under terrible pressure to react. A newspaper rings up Scotland Yard: ‘Someone has said something slightly insulting on Twitter about someone who we think a national treasure. What are you going to do about it?’ And the police panic and they scrabble around and then grasp the most inappropriate lifeline of all, Section 5 of the Public Order Act, that thing where they can arrest anybody for saying anything that might be construed by anyone else as insulting. You know, they don’t seem to need a real victim, they need only to make the judgment that somebody could have been offended if they had heard or read what has been said. The most ludicrous degree of latitude. The storms that surround Twitter and Facebook comment have raised some fascinating issues about free speech, which we haven’t really yet come to terms with. Firstly, that we all have to take responsibility for what we say, which is quite a good lesson to learn. But secondly, we’ve learnt how appallingly prickly and intolerant society has become of even the mildest adverse comment.

The law should not be aiding and abetting this new intolerance. Free speech can only suffer if the law prevents us from dealing with its consequences. I offer you my wholehearted support to the Reform Section 5 campaign. Thank you very much.

[dbstaches]

MATERIAL WORLD: THE GRID Grid your loins, it's Dave Ball (left) and Richard Norris Picture: Roger Sargent

NME magazine, 30 October 1993 — full article text bellow

WHERE ARE YOU NOW AND HOW DO YOU FEEL? RICHARD: In the Village Inn as usual, unshaven, post-remixing lag DAVE: The Village Inn, tired and emotional

FIRST RECORD YOU EVER BOUGHT? R: ‘Blockbuster’, The Sweet D: ‘Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes’, Edison Lighthouse

WHO WOULD DIRECT THE ‘TEXAS COWBOYS’ MOVIE? R: Andy Warhol, if he was alive, Lonesome Cowboys 2 D: Sam Peckinpah – lots of fake blood

WHICH CHARACTER WOULD YOU HAVE PLAYED IN THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY? R: Clint – for the stubble and cheroots D: Lee Van Cleef. He wears black clothes, smokes cigars – my kind of guy

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW MARC ALMOND AND WHAT WAS HE DOING? D: On TV, doing a costume-change at Royal Albert Hall

DESCRIBE EACH OTHER IN THREE WORDS? R: Jolly Uncle Jack D: Griff Rhys Jones

WAS VIC REEVES AS SURREAL IN REAL LIFE? R: Haddock

FONDEST MEMORY OF YOUR NME DAYS? R: Jack Barron ranting, Fred Dellar (gawd bless ’im) and two weeks in Ibiza on expenses

MOST EMBARRASSING RECORD IN YOUR COLLECTION? R: A double LP of Barbara Woodhouse teaching dogs to sit. Walkies! D: ‘In The Night’ by Tony Blackburn

HOW DO YOU SEE THE FUTURE OF SPAGHETTI DISCO? R: Take That doing ‘Rawhide’

BEST THING ABOUT PERFORMING LIVE? R: Watching the wide-eyed and legless

WHAT INSPIRES YOU? R: Punk rock, disco D: Everything

WORST FLYING EXPERIENCE? R: Being in economy class D: Flying from LA to London on acid; flying from London to the South of France with Depeche Mode, dropping 1,000 feet when we hit an air pocket

WHO WOULD BE YOUR DREAM COLLABORATION? R: Iggy Pop D: A film score with John Barry/Angelo Badalamenti

IF YOU HAD A LABEL WHICH TWO ROCK ACTS WOULD YOU SIGN? R: AC/DC, Nine Inch Nails D: Zodiac Mindwarp, The Ramones

WHAT DID YOU THINK WHEN THEY DESCRIBED YOUR MUSIC AS “JUNGLE” ON CORONATION STREET? R: Smashing, chuck D: I liked it so much I sampled it

FIRST BANDS? R: The Innocent Vicars, The Fruitbats, The Wild Kitchen, East Of Eden D: Soft Cell

HOW MANY TELEVISIONS DO YOU OWN R: About 20. I got a fine for not having a license

DESCRIBE YOUR TOTP EXPERIENCE? D: Tedium-tastic

THREE GREAT THINGS ABOUT THAILAND AT CHRISTMAS? R: The sky at night, bats, blue-capped evenings with neon fish

HOW WOULD YOU SPEND AN IDEAL SUNDAY AFTERNOON? R: Horizontally, after a bad game of golf D: Lunch with friends and good wine

WHAT'S THE WEIRDEST SITUATION YOU'VE EVER BEEN IN? R: Being surrounded by Hackney constabulary with Genesis and Paula P Orridge at 5am after imitating a Sunday People reporter D: Running naked down a Madrid hotel corridor with Stevo, wielding two replica Flintlock pistols, chasing two Spanish girls

FAVOURITE PEOPLE? D: Richard & Judy, Paul Merton, Dennis The Barman

CAN YOU RETIRE ON THE MONEY ‘TAINTED LOVE’ MADE IN AMERICA? D: No, but I'm, sure our American lawyers and A&R men could!

WHAT DID MADONNA DO WHEN YOU UPSTAGED HER IN NEW YORK? D: She forgave me the next morning

CHOOSE A RECORD TO WAKE UP TO/SLEEP TO/HAVE SEX TO R: Wake up: ‘Cobalt Blue’, Michael Brook. Sleep: ‘Music For Airports’, Brian Eno. Sex: ‘There's A Riot Goin' On’, Sly And The Family Stone D: Wake up: ‘Rise And Shine’, The Flintstones. Sleep: ‘Very/Relentless’, Pet Shop Boys. Sex: ‘Neroli’, Brian Eno

WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO? R: Write a mean paragraph. I could be an A&R man if I was really desperate D: Top oarsman and not a bad cook

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO? R: Like Aldous Huxley

[indiejones]

THE 56 MOST MIGHTY & POPULAR ACTORS OF WORLD CINEMA !

(OFFICIAL LIST, BASED ON INDIES SUBCONSCIOUS ASSESSMENT OF THE MOST CONSISTENTLY HIGHLY POPULAR ACTORS & HIGHEST EARNING FILMS OF WORLD CINEMA, INCL DATA FROM VARIOUS INDIES FILM LISTS & ALL OTHER SOURCES!)

- PART 1

Note: The point system used, to give audiences an idea of the magnitude of comparative popularities of listed actors, includes 2 factors:

A calculated AVERAGE of no. of tkts sold PER FILM in lead (80% weightage) &

No. of films released in lead (20% weightage) (This weightage rule has been introduced to neutralize the effect of eg Indian actors, who at one point, in its glory phase, released an avg of 10 films each/yr). (Pls understand, that discrepancies in placements of the few actors listed in American Popularity charts & World Popularity charts, arise due to them serving 2 or more cinemas – US & British or French, thus changing their stats accordingly)

AND HERE ARE THE 56 MIGHTY MOST POPULAR ACTORS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, SINCE THE BEGINNING OF CINEMA!

.Rajesh Khanna – 600 pts

.Gerard Depardieu – 464 pts

.Alain Delon – 462 pts

.Ray Milland – 459 pts

.Michel Piccoli – 458 pts

.Christopher Plummer – 452 pts

.Daniel Day Lewis – 443 pts

.Christian Clavier – 436 pts

.Dany Boon – 434 pts

.Ivor Novello – 432 pts

.Peter Sellers – 425 pts

.Alec Guinness – 418 pts

.Laurence Olivier – 415 pts

.Harrison Ford – 413 pts

.Jean Marais – 411 pts

.Yves Montand – 406 pts

.Michael J. Fox – 403 pts

.Charles Chaplin – 401 pts

.Albert Finney – 389 pts

.Bruce Lee – 383 pts

.Hugh Grant – 382 pts

.Cary Grant – 354 pts

.Ronald Colman – 351 pts

.John Cleese – 348 pts

.Clint Eastwood – 346 pts

.Michael Lonsdale – 345 pts

.Gerard Jugnot – 344 pts

.Francois Cluzet – 343 pts

.Sacha Baron Cohen – 342 pts

.Sean Connery – 341 pts

.Daniel Radcliffe – 37 pts

.Jackie Chan -334 pts

.Hugh Laurie – 332 pts

.Michael Caine – 329 pts

.Griff Rhys Jones -326 pts

.Gary Cooper – 313 pts

.Alain Chabat – 304 pts

.Macaulay Culkin – 292 pts

.Yuri Nikulin – 287 pts

.Colin Firth – 280 pts

.Wu Jing – 279 pts

.James Stewart – 277 pts

.Vincent Lindon – 273 pts

.Pierre Richard – 270 pts

.Gerard Philipe – 258 pts

.Clark Gable – 254 pts

.Ralph Fiennes – 249 pts

.Charles Dance – 246 pts

.Guillaume Canet – 232 pts

.Marlon Brando – 223 pts

.Robert Carlyle – 214 pts

.Humphrey Bogart – 204 pts

.Peter O’ Toole – 201 pts

.Jeremy Irons – 197 pts

.Dudley Moore – 193 pts

.Romain Duris – 184 pts

(And btw, just for some fun- What if that severely restrictive ban on including total no. of tks sold, is removed?

Know where Rajesh Khanna's points tally reaches vis a vis No.2 ??

At Close to 3 times Ahead! 1300 over 464!😀

Sorry Gerard. Sorry World!

BUT THIS IS A NO CONTEST!)

PS.

Did You Know-

Rajesh Khanna could've retired from cinema altogether after the film 'Mehbooba' in 1976 ie. after 10 yrs of work, & still be remembered today, ahead of Gerard Depardieu, as officially, 'The Most Famous Actor In the Entire History of World Cinema' !

He would work at exactly the same pace 12 more yrs!

[makeitquietly]

I’ve been rewatching Smith & Jones (with and without Alas), so googled Griff Rhys Jones the other day to see what he’s been up to lately and look what I found. 😊

[mrterry1990]

P1 Katy Brand Griff Rhys Jones & Robert Webb

[petnews2day]

Griff Rhys Jones brings The Cat’s Pyjamas to Worthing

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Griff Rhys Jones brings The Cat’s Pyjamas to Worthing

Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276 Visit Shots! now Multi award-winning comedian, writer, actor and television presenter Griff Rhys Jones hits the road on his stand-up tour this spring with The Cat’s Pyjamas with dates including Worthing’s Pavilion Theatre on May 22. Oddly perhaps, the solo stand-up route is […]

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