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Here are some fabulous presenter showreels found by a comedy hero of mine, Robert Popper. They are fabulous because they are terrible. Exhibit 1 features the most boring interview ever conducted by a human being. This aspiring young interviewer has been lucky enough to find a lady who works at Safeway, reducing the price of distressed items.

Highlight: “How do you know they are regulars? I suppose they come in a lot?”

Also, his voice sounds as though he has swallowed a kazoo.

Exhibit 2 is of a young Alan Partridge, the presenter of the ‘Wacky 12 till 2’ slot on some godforsaken radio station. His version of to-camera gravitas makes him look as though he’s recently had his neck greased, and the vhs-vhs editing is a wonder to behold.

Christ.

Thank you Mr Popper, you have made my day with these (There’s a TV series here somewhere, I’d say)

This is a photo of therealllcoolj, showing his ebay item of 4 gift cards for ‘future shop’ on the canadian version of ebay, the ubiquitous online auction site.

Its the best online auction page ever for these reasons:

1. It has background music (really good background music)

2. It has LOADS of pictures of this dude modelling the gift cards

3. It has no other description

4. It has a Batman endorsement

Its true that you can find anything on the internets; and every hobby, obsession and fetish is catered for somewhere out there.

Today, for example, and only if you’re a broad-minded adult, I invite you to go and view IJPEFFWA which I reckon probably stands for “International Jurrassic Park Erotic Fan Fiction Writers Association”. And hosts a collection of stories about having it off with dinosaurs. Nuff Said.

My friend went on holiday to mexico and got swine flu, luckily the doctor gave him some oinkment

I went to Mexico, but I wasn’t worried about catching Swine Flu ‘cos I was only there for a Weeeeeek!

Yep, Swine flu is in the news and everyone is terrified about it. Some of us prefer to look on the brighter side of life though and if you’re a person like that you could do worse than to visit the Sickipedia section dedicated to jokes about Swine Flu - http://www.sickipedia.org/search.php?q=swine+flu

Beware though, as Sickipedia is for broad-minded adults only, and I cannot be held responsible for any guilty laughs you may experience there.

As far as I can figure it, photochaining is a little like a chain letter but rather less annoying and far more digital-age. What you do is this:

Take an amusing photo and leave it on a memory card in a public place. The person who finds it has to download your photo and send it to a website (www.photochainning.com) then delete your photo from the card, take one of their own and repeat the whole exercise.

It all sounds like good clean fun, especially as the memory cards themselves are given cute, one-word names like Anna, Alice, Franz and Lola. I guess, as it grows, it’ll become even more interesting as we follow these little cards around the world. The whole thing reminds me of those balloon competitions they used to have where they release zillions (or more likely 100) balloons with tags attached to see which one travels the furthest, which always used to make me laugh when they only got a mile or two away.

The picture above, incidentally, is from the “gimme” card which was found in Rio de Janeiro in March. Go and check it our. And, when you find a memory card in a clear plastic bag, you’ll know what to do.

This is CADIE’s homepage. CADIE, which stands for Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity, is an Artificial Intelligence designed by Google. Her homepage is based on a scan of social networking sites. Of course, a glance at the calendar reveals that its April 1st, and hilarious jokes and pranks abound on the internet - Like Youtube being upside-down, Like Digg looking like Reddit and Reddit looking like Digg, Like The Pirate Bay announcing it has been bought by Warner Bros, And Like The Guardian announcing it is switching to a Twitter-only service.

None of which is particularly hilarious, but I April Fools pranks never are, are they? And there is a Humour Recession at the moment.

For loads of Internet April Fools go to www.aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com or just stay in bed till midday when, traditionally, the whole malarkey is supposed to end.

Obviously, nobody knows. But us humans being what we are, we all like to try and predict what it will be like in the future. In fact, some people make whole careers out of it. Sometimes our predictions are right, and sometimes they’re very very wrong.

This video features some predictions of future telecommunications by the Post Office Research Station, made in 1969. Its a funny watch because of the awful, stilted acting; but also great fun to see what they got right, and what they got wrong.

I wonder how it came to be called broadband? Wideband seems a better term imo.

I like ’supergroup’ U2. Incidentally, what does that mean? Supergroup? They don’t appear to have any powers, apart from amassing huge sums of money and never quite managing to stop their new albums from leaking onto the internet.

But I digress. Do you, like me, wonder where Bono and the boys get their ideas from? I thought Get On Your Boots sounded familiar, and when I figured out what it sounds like I just had to stick the two songs together to compare them. Here it is:

Look at this picture, can you tell what it is?

Its a baby cake. A cake with a baby in it. Not a real baby, thank the lord, but still. A cake with a baby in it.

It turns out that there are a lot of bad cakes out there, and luckily for us Jen has given herself the mission of collecting them all together in one place - Her Cake Wrecks blog.

Its a well-written place and very entertaining, so go and have a look!

The Benny Hillifier adds the famous Benny Hill theme tune to any youtube video, rendering it hilarious. It also has the ability to speed up the video, making it doubly hilarious. So visit the Benny Hillifier here : http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier , paste in a youtube url, and away you go! (Try to find a video of someone slapping a bald fella on the head, and you’ll never wear tonight’s pants again!)