Total Sense Of Humour Bypass

It's Comic Relief today and my mind turns to humour or rather the total lack of it apparent in the world lately. On Wednesday I mentioned the axing of the popular Iranian children's show "Uncle Pourang" because a kid let slip that his dad used the president's name for his toy monkey.Yesterday I read that some police officers had played "I fought the law and the law won" to a group of defeated demonstrators over a loudspeaker and were then disciplined by their commander. Is nobody able to see the funny side of things any more?



At least nobody has issued a Fatwah against me yet after my blog but it got me thinking what names could you get away with for our tufty monkey toy.

Gordon Brown- Nae bother
Barack Obama- Ouch but you'll live
Sarkozy - Mais oui but writs could fly
Berlusconi - OK but you could sleep with the fishes
Merkel - Fine
Kim-Jong-Il - Rather you than me
Vladimir Putin - Siberia beckons
King Faisil - Everybody must get stoned
Jesus Christ - Peace be with you
Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rachid - You having a laugh?
The Pope - Peace be with you
Mohammed - Obviously I would never ever ever even think that anybody anywhere could ever be so disrespectful as to so name a toy monkey and the inclusion of this name in the list is purely by way of speculating what would happen if anybody anywhere was so stupid as to even consider. Oh what's that? Teacher Gillian Gibbons sentenced to 15 days jail and deportation for allowing her pupils to call the class teddy bear - you guessed it. And some in Darfur are claiming that she got off lightly.




Great news. Paul's show "The Colour of Money" is one of the six nominees for a golden rose in the big TV festival in Lucerne in May in the Game Show category. Watch it tomorrow ITV1 6.45. There's only rugby on the other side.



Marion and I are on holiday next week. So I'm having this photo blown up and stuck inside all the windows chez nous. Marion's credit crunch is extending to holidays now. No doubt there will be a couple of sunbeds in the conservatory to accompany the view. A few bottles of wine should make things more realistic I think Marion has found some for £2.99 a bottle. She got a recommendation from a wino on Lord St.

So what is Instanta going to do for Comic Relief? Well firstly here is a great little video made by some Bournemouth University students. This is good. I'm not promoting "Let's Dance For Comic Relief" when it's on against The Colour of Money.


And secondly Instanta will donate £1 for every player on "The Colour of Money Leader board" at 6.00pm Saturday 14th March to a maximum £500. Play the game and let Instanta donate £1 to Comic Relief by logging on here