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humour News Archive15-Nov-2008My years with Roald. Felicity Dahl talks to Elizabeth Day (Guardian Unlimited) Roald Dahl's writing hut is just as he left it. Tucked away at the end of the garden, it looks like a dilapidated shed, its paint peeling and faded, its tiny windows dusty with disuse. Inside, the mossy green wing-back armchair in which he wrote nearly all his books takes up most of the space. A drawing by Dahl's son Theo is pinned to the wall, the corners brown and furled. A low table is ... Nail hopes for a hit with humour (The Journal) NORTH EAST actor Jimmy Nail is to make a comeback in a new BBC comedy series. He will star in BBC One?s Parents of the Band as Phil Palmer, a former Eighties pop musician with a solitary hit to his name. The art of humour with Vincent Lafrance (Hour.ca) There's trickery behind Vincent Lafrance's sense of humour - a skewed little something that displays pointed intelligence and a frightening understanding of the simple principles of entertainment. His art - part photography, part video - is displayed in full solo glory at Division Gallery right now. The Fallen (BBC News) 'Why I made a film about UK's 300 war dead' Road safety heads see no humour in car crash ad (Whyalla News) IT WAS intended as a tongue-in-cheek pitch to cashed-up youngsters in the market for some new wheels. Andrew Simms: Countdown to perilous global warming (Guardian Unlimited) Andrew Simms: The climate clock is speeding up. Governments must take responsibility and protect their people from disaster Robert Hanks: Obama euphoria puts dampener on political humour (Independent) A question that kept poking up this week was, can political humour survive euphoria? On The News Quiz (Radio 4, Friday), Francis Wheen responded to a question about the US election by pretending that the obvious answer was Joe Biden, giving hope to dullards everywhere, and making an offhand quip about the "allegedly inspirational" Obama. This raised, at best, a subdued snicker from the ... Coaches need that release from pressure-cooker (Crookwell Gazette) WHAT exactly do we want from the modern-day football coach? Expertise, composure, man-management, media management, a good dress sense, a sense of humour, a sense of honour. Phil Gayle: The racial subtext to Silvio Berlusconi's joke about Barack Obama (Guardian Unlimited) Phil Gayle: Silvio Berlusconi's quip about Barack Obama's 'tan' was more than innocent humour. No wonder no one's laughing
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