Link example 2

The official website of comedian/novelist Robert Newman. Whom i am looking forward to seeing at the Edinburgh fringe on the 12th of this month. Politicaly motivated would be one way of describing his recent stuff but that doesn't mean it's all stuffy and pompous. Oh no, this man will whip out his ukulele(thats not a euphemism) with alarming regularity and well even if one isn't a fan of this particular instrument you cannot deny that it is one of the more whimsical musical devices available.

I liked his comedy since the early Mary Whitehouse Experience years, by far the stand out member of that quartet, before they split into Newman and Baddiel and the slightly poor Punt and Dennis.

Newman and Baddiel soon split, with Baddiel finding fame alongside Frank Skinner while Rob slipped out of the limelight.

Well i rediscovered Rob Newman years later when i noticed he had been doing stand up again, while i missed him that time round i quickly got myself his Resistance is Fertile video. Watching it was like finding something you really loved after losing it for ages and finding out in the meantime it had gotten even better. Having being a fan of the Mark Thomas Product it was good to find another even better exponent of what i can only describe as comedy that shows us just how FUCKED up a world we actually live in!

Anyways the example of his more serious writing i'm highlighting today is this piece on the war in Iraq from back in april 2003. For me it's a very concise bit of thinking as to motivations behind why our governments chose to do what they did.