Although this is a year old, I don’t think I’ve posted “Cunk on Christmas” before, and it’s appropriate as most people are still on holidays. Here the incomparable Philomena finds the true meaning of Christmas in a half-hour BBC special. As usual, she calls on various academics as Christmas Experts.
Note the mention of Richard Dawkins at 28 seconds in.
Don’t know if you’ve seen my OT comment on your previous post but Diane Morgan (Cunk) is on The Infinite Monket Cage Christmas Special. I’m just about to listen to it now.
Entertaining edition but Ms Morgan’s wit is not entirely to the fore.
I’ll watch Miss Cunk while I drink my morning coffee.
For more irreverent Holiday cheer, one can
go caroling with Hitch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJ0mo0r3zs. And he’s even wearing a Santa’s hat!
I was not aware of the pagan origin. “We tend to attach the words to the music instead.”
If only it was done in any accent other than that, I could have continued. A holiday on a fictitious person is a clunk, especially when they consider other narratives as mythology but say theirs is true.
If only it was done in any accent other than that, I could have continued. A holiday on a fictitious person is a clunk, especially when they consider other narratives as mythology but say theirs is true. No I did not say this before.
Every time a historian of the First World War has to point out that the photo of the soldiers playing football (at 21:50) was taken in Salonica in 1915, not in France in 1914, an angel gets his wings.
🙂
Richard Dawkins “thinks God is a twat who isn’t even there” 😅😅😅
At 6:22 the Queen’s chaplain shows that she doesn’t know her Bible very well.
Cunk is to Christmas as a New Earth Creationist is to Evolution: the same gob-smacking lack of comprehension with the real world.
Methinks thou hast missed the sharp bit!
Nay otherly. I am undividedly perspicacious of the honed extremity.
I saw the same look of bewilderment on those being interviewed by Cunk as I saw on Dawkin’s face when he was interviewing Wendy Wright (the “did she actually say that” expression, or “Even if I fully explain it, she’s still going to see it her way”).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AS6rQtiEh8
Diane Morgan knows that Cunk is a headbanger, Wendy Wright doesn’t know that she herself is.
Kent Hovind and Ayn Rand are two other similar candidates: their own realities impregnable to modification.
I’ll watch this later, but : I bet if one looks for the true meaning of Halloween, they’ll reach the same conclusions – and I mean this in a straightforward way…. perhaps Cunk has a bit on this….
Oh man, I saw this last year, and it’s so good – “wouldn’t it have been more impressive if he was built, like R2-D2”
…. aaaand done.
Can’t wait to listen next year … hey,… I sense a new Christmas tradition!