Tomorrow's Guide, today…
… in which we debate whether classic TV comedies can still make us chuckle our wibbly bits off.
You can even read some of our articles now thanks to the internet. Fancy!
- How about Graeme Virtue and Andrew Mueller on whether there are too many superheroes on telly?
- Or your favourite rockstars, and Bono, reimagined as silver screen serial killers.
- Plus, just in time for the weekend, here are house producer George Fitzgerald’s favourite bangers.
That’s it from us. We’re back on Monday with a savage hangover and a tube of Berocca.
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A quick catchup with Benedict Cumberbatch's face
Because it’s been a week and we’ve missed it.
Here he is as Alan Turing in forthcoming film The Imitation Game, an exclusive clip of which you can watch RIGHT HERE. It’s a scene in which he is interviewed, which we can all agree, in the grand scheme of Watching Cumberbatch Doing Things, is something we haven’t seen from him yet.
And, from earlier in the week, here’s The Batch making ace faces in an incredibly tight suit. It hasn’t had 1m views/become an internet meme yet so we didn’t think you’d mind us posting it a few days late.
This week's Review Anything will blow your mind or something
Matching outfit blogs, essays on capitalism, crude songs we wish we could unhear – this week’s Review Anything really has it all…
Go on, have a read.
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Late lunchtime links
Back from scoffing? Good. Here are some things that maybe you’d like to watch…
A massively awkward* Brad Pitt interview
*it’s supposed to be massively awkward but it’s still massively awkward and, um, not even that funny in being massively awkward. About as awkward as this interview, then.
Billy Corgan talks about ‘going disco’
Just what will he do next?
A video from doom-metallers Sunn O))) and 60s pop icon Scott Walker
Yup, think that’s the sound of whipping that you can hear.
A sciencey thing about how they built the black holes in Interstellar
Aaaaand a gag I nicked from the internet because it was funny
Thanks to @thewrongwriter for highlighting these outtakes from the Russell Brand/Evan Davis Newsnight showdown: http://t.co/WOTLxpELSr
— Andrew Male (@AndrewMaleMojo) October 24, 2014
Milky Chance will troll your pop songs
This is Milky Chance, the German acoustic duo single-handedly trying to keep folktronica alive. Call me crazy but I think the key to its ability to win over more people might be to ‘sing so that people can understand what you’re saying’.
It’s a good job that everyone already knows the words to Miley Cyrus’s Wrecking Ball because this cover brings new meaning to incomprehensibly affected singing voices. Watch out, pop stars, none of your songs are safe from their mumble.
It's Slaywatch!
Yes, that’s right, David Hasselhoff has been immortalised as a zombie slaying lifeguard in a new iPhone gaming app. Inspired by his favourite movies like Zombieland, Hoff™ Zombie Beach is an all-ages game where you can gun down Pamela Anderson’s walking dead with what looks like a giant water bazooka.
According to the Hoff in Digital Spy, high scorers could win a chance to star in his next film, or even his next game. $0.99 and a whole load of clicking is nothing if it means you could be tied in a tree and covered in mud for the next of these high-qual Anaconda reboots. Amirite?
Get angry like Will Ferrell
Ben Stiller. Nicolas Cage. Vince Vaughn. Will Ferrell. What do they have in common? They all do rage, like, really well. They make your rage look like mere wimpering. Their insults make your swears sound like you’re serenading kittens. Face it, you need to get better at being angry.
Luckily, Funny Or Die’s latest supercut, ‘Will Ferrell Screaming’, is the inspiration everyone needs after a crappy week at work.
The week that electroclash came back
We kick off this morning with the latest version of Tiga’s Bugatti – electroclash’s answer to the insufferably infectious Happy – now with added wrote-em-on-a-napkin-on-the-way-to-the-studio rap (© Gwilym Mumford) from Pusha T. Just think: Playgroup and Jay-Z, Fischerspooner and Kanye, Peaches and Beyoncé – this would be an awesome thing, guys.
ICYMI, here’s the official video, sans rapping, in which Tiga wears an incredible metallic jacket and hangs out in an 80s alpine lodge. It’s out on 8 December.
