To strive, to seek, to find…

Seek and ye shall find. Ob-sessed.

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Jezebel has a lovely post on Mark Ronson including a headline starting “Bang the DJ.”

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More film fest excitement for y’all!

Last night saw director Paul Greengrass receive The Variety UK Achievement in Film Award at an event held in conjunction with the London Film Festival. He was then interviewed by Variety magazine’s Europe and Middle East correspondent, Ali Jaafar. The discussion ranged from Greengrass’s interest in Northern Ireland to the process of making The Murder of Stephen Lawrence. Suchandrika Chakrabarti reports

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8 William Shakespeare: You don’t need me to tell you that he’s a bit good. Go and find your own favourite. There’s plenty of material out there.

I like:

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not” - Hamlet

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me” - Richard II

“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance” - The Winter’s Tale

Someone big in the footie world next…

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4 Jeremy Clarkson: “We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging. I want to drive around in a Terminator, not the heroine in an EM Forster novel.” Oh jesus. This man is not witty. He is one of the reasons why we shouldn’t complain if something is apparentely “political correctness gone mad,” because he is the somewhat dull alternative.

Well, let’s give him a chance (these quotations were brought to you by Channel Dave, the home of witty banter):

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A survey by British digital channel UKTV, on the occasion of the launch of Channel Dave, has found that 3000 “comedy fans” reckon that Oscar Wilde was a bit funny. In fact, he got 20% of the vote - yes, 600 peeps think he’s très amusant!

Which other totally surprising figures of great personal wit made the Top 10?

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Gosh she’s changed.

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Neighbours is 22 years old. And changes are afoot…

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