Humour News
|
|
Humour News
   
|
|
humour News Archive02-Nov-2008On the agenda (Sunday Herald) very saddened to hear of the untimely death last week of Joanna Davidson (50), head of corporate responsibility at RBS. Recruited by Sir Fred Goodwin in 2003 to launch the new CSR division, Joanna is said by colleagues to have combined forcefulness of character and commercial good sense with charm and good humour. Never say never: Ian Paisley talks to Ian Jack (Guardian Unlimited) The Reverend Dr Ian Paisley is such a nice old fella. Let us all be like this, I thought at one point, if by God's grace we reach 82. From the moment he came into the room until the moment, an hour and 15 minutes later, that I left it, his predominant mood was sweet good humour. So many of his thoughts and memories had a smile or a laugh attached to them - laughter that seemed not at all ... Ray Lowry (Guardian Unlimited) During the years characterised by punk, post-punk and the economic depression of the early 1980s, the cartoons of Ray Lowry, who has died suddenly aged 64, were admired as much by readers of Punch, Private Eye and Mayfair as those of the New Musical Express, plus many alternative magazines and fanzines, for their anger and anarchic humour. Foul air fallacies (Guardian Unlimited) It's always uncomfortable when we have to humour someone close to us in the name of avoiding conflict. Right now at Thames Valley University, entire science departments must be feeling slightly embarrassed about their degrees in quackery. Because despite the refusal of all universities to disclose what they teach on these, the leaks keep coming, and Prof David Colquhoun of UCL continues to ... The MAG: KkkkkKiwiland ccccold - Humour column by Heather McCabe (The Sudbury Star) Halloween may be over, but now the truly scary stuff begins. It starts to get cold. Eeek! Even after years of living in Sudbury, I [...] Road safety heads see no humour in car crash ad (Central Western Daily) IT WAS intended as a tongue-in-cheek pitch to cashed-up youngsters in the market for some new wheels. Election humour reaches fever pitch (The Star) BARACK Obama has a step-brother, Obatma, who once lived in a cave near Nairobi. A half-man, half-bat, he is endorsing Obama so the Democrat presidential candidate is now assured of the mutant vote. Jackson remembers Bernie Mac (Jam! Showbiz) Gallows humour and grief often share the same stage. Tribute To Soldiers' 'Humour' (SkyNews via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) The commanding officer of a regiment that saw some of the fiercest fighting in Afghanistan has paid tribute to its "humour which defied the very worst of days". A Lust for Window Sills, by Harry Mount (Independent) It's always been one of the easiest ways to gauge what kind of a person someone is: take a look at their bookshelves. Lots of Camus and Sartre? The man's riven with existential angst. She's got the complete works of Austen? Incorrigible romantic, but with a redeeming sense of humour. So when I started delving into Harry Mount's new guide to Britain's architecture, I could not help but notice ...
Back to humour News Archive
|
|