“I believe marriage is meant to be a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers…”
Thank you Tina Fey and Saturday Night Live.
They say every cloud has a silver lining, and the only one in the potential election of John McCain is more of Tina Fey as Sarah Palin. But it’s still not worth it, America.
Someone has commissioned Eoin Colfer to write another Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Novel.
This seems like the most stunningly pointless and inane piece of sequel making in the history. Certainly it is perhaps the decision that most mistakes what people really love about the Hitchhikers’ series. It’s not primarily about the characters, folks, it’s about what Adams does with them, the way things go in every possible and impossible direction, the brilliant dialogue and the insane ideas. It’s not something that’s replicable – as the film, which was Hitchhiker-lite, despite Adams having done the first draft, proved – nor indeed does it work quite as well in novel form as on the radio. (Go on, admit it, you *know* it’s true – original Radio 4 Hitchhiker is the brilliantest and the bestest). It’s certainly not something Colfer’s given any hint he can do, and I quite enjoy Artemis Fowl.
Oh really, really, really, world. Hitchhiker’s isn’t a franchise that you can sell off to new people. It’s really far too specific in its origins, style and humour for that, and this new book can just Go Far Far Away.
I’d never heard of Russell Howard till a week and a half ago. Now this is one of my favourite pieces of news comedy from this year. It is absolutely spot on, and hilarious. It’s from Mock the Week.