His Dark Materials: Teaser trailer

Calling all fans of Philip Pullman's brilliant trilogy His Dark Materials. I was reading Spectrum from the Herald today and there was a cover-page article on the first movie (The Golden Compass) based on the first book of the trilogy - Northern Lights. So here's the teaser trailer. It will be interesting to see how much the anti-Christian element (His Dark Materials is said to be the antithesis of C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia) is diluted down.

If you need a laugh ...

... check out these series of videos of the British quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks, a pop culture two-panel comedy quiz show in the style of Spicks and Specks. The celebrity guests on this episode (Nov 23, 2006) were Robin Ince, Daniel Bedingfield, Kelli Young of Liberty X and (the very yummy) John Barrowman. The show is hosted by Simon Amstell, Phill Jupitus and Bill Bailey (from the excellent comedy Black Books).

This episode was exceedingly hilarious and I really enjoyed watching it. It's certainly a mood lifter!

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Part 3

The Chaser boys do Hillary Clinton

I'm not a big fan of The Chaser, but this stunt by Charles Firth is pretty ballsy. He goes up to Clinton and asks her if he can be his intern - with a cigar of course! This video generated more than 100,000 hits in just one day after it was put up on YouTube. It was removed for a bit (see this funny article), but its popularity in the US shows that The Chaser's War on Everything is certainly going places!